Long thin garden ..............c670

A friend has a long thin garden behind his terraced home. The garden is 16 feet by 50 feet. He wants an area for an 8 feet by 6 feet shed and he would prefer this to be screened from view.

 

I've come up with this basic design and given him lots of options for how the design can be modified to either give a grass less garden / make it feel more/less informal and ways to reduce the cost of achieving it .There used to be lots of notes on this photo but Flickr management have now removed the notes facility completely. I had hundreds of photos with thousands of notes.. they took many hours to produce and the fools at Flickr have removed them all...

 

I've now produced the same photo with numbers and notes below it showing all the features /options available for this garden plan . Here it is

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/14643004583/

 

Many of the terraces in my area have gardens twice as long as this one. For those with children who like to play football etc half the garden could be attractive and well planted and the other half basically plain grass where the children can play.

 

Here's a link to photos of a long thin garden I designed and created some years ago . The photos show before and after shots.

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/313123070/in/set-72057...

 

Here's a link to a triangular shaped garden I redesigned /planted for my neighbour

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/12293751063/

 

Here's a link to another garden I designed for an internet contact which contains lots of detailed information and clickable links to the main plants I use in my designs

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/8086545240/in/photolis...

 

 

Here's a very simple (incomplete) sketch of a long thin garden with an S shaped central lawn with shallower curves than in the sketch in the photo on this page

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/8616477227/in/photolis...

 

Here's a link to a set of photos showing the detailed creation of a large crescent shaped garden in my own garden

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/6013872233/in/photostream

 

Here's a link to some more garden designs taken from an old gardening magazine

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/3294073822/in/photolis...

 

Here's a link to a set of photos showing all the gardens I've designed/worked on/planted or maintained

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/sets/72057594072815906/

 

Here are photos of my own garden

 

www.flickr.com/photos/31559373@N00/sets/72057594069678373/

 

Here are some water feature ideas( non of these below are my work or photos but were found via a Google search )

 

 

www.gapphotos.com/images/WebPreview/0149/0149464.jpg

 

www.gapphotos.com/images/WebPreview/0074/0074129.jpg

 

www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=198241

 

www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=12518

 

 

or one of the circles could be a deck

 

www.createoutdoors.co.uk/images/client2_big.gif

 

Done