Lets Build A Garden – Inspiration – Week 2

Week 2 – Inspiration.

Lets build a garden – inspiration. Now you have looked at your garden / window box / courtyard and begun to consider what you have / what you have to leave / and what is definitely going – its time to think about inspiration….

Inspiration

Where will your inspiration come from? Do you have specific ideas or problem areas that you want to address? They could be worn grass, old plants, dead plants or crumbling walls and fences.

Disposal

Is your inspiration about adding something? Or taking something away? What do you need to get rid of – how and when? What are your children looking for from a garden? What do they want now? What will they want in a few years’ time and between now and then…? What will you need in a few years’ time – do you need to think about mobility?

Aspiration

How do you feel about raised beds? Are there particular things that are you looking to achieve? How green do you want to be? Is water conservation important? How much time and effort can you allocate to looking after the garden? What about wildlife – what birds and insects would you like to bring to your garden?

Can you ask them to list what they would like – in an ideal world –

Talk to them about what might be possible and what might be a little more difficult

If you are working in parallel with your parents / friends / colleagues – you in your garden, them in theirs what are they looking for?

What are your favorite gardens or elements within a garden?

What type of garden are you aiming for? – water garden or with significant water features / will any buildings stay or be built / constructed – how do you feel about adopting green roofs?

• “Homework” – create a mood board – either online or as a hardcopy – pictures and ideas that you like, and you want to adopt in your garden. Find pictures in magazines, images online or from your own pictures, holidays or gardens from other houses and places where you have lived.
  
  
• Get Creative – think of the focus & themes that could run through the garden – whether they be particular materials, species, colours or themes adopted from other cultures, times or locations.
  
  
• Materials choice has never been wider soil, plants, green roofs, decking, hard landscaping – beds, water features, rockeries and buildings, sitting areas and that’s if you are staying conventional. Using your imagination can open up all sorts of possibilities and scale needn’t be a factor – miniature gardens and Japanese bonsai is just one example of something a little different.
  
  
• We would love to see your ideas so please send in your ideas, images or inspiration to marketing@harrowdenturf.co.uk.
  
  
• To help here are some other resources to help with your ideas:
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• https://www.pinterest.co.uk/marketing7656/garden-inspiration/
• https://www.houzz.co.uk/photos/small-garden-ideas-and-designs-phbr1-bp~t_10323~a_30-231
• https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/small-garden-ideas-design
• https://www.gardendesign.com/small/
• https://www.idealhome.co.uk/garden/garden-ideas/budget-garden-ideas-197528
• https://cultivationstreet.com/free-resources/

and there are some specific articles on our blog covering all sorts of subjects:

Using less water – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=use+less+water

Attracting Butterflies – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=butterflies

Lawncare for dog-owners: – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=lawns+for+dogs

Wildflowers: – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=wildflowers

Front Gardens – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=front+gardens

Using Bark – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=bark

Attracting wildlife – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=attract+wildlife

Green Roofs : – https://www.turfonline.co.uk/blog/?s=green+roofs