The garden is a sacred space in our homes, often only really accessible in the summer months. Its seasonal nature makes it even more enthralling when used. It serves as a place to socialise or as a place to reflect. Nearly nine in ten of us are lucky enough to have access to a garden. With spring coming again, now is the best possible time to get that garden looking its best. But how might you do this, from a space perspective?
Removing Hedges and Trees
This might sound obvious regarding making space. Removing larger plant life from your garden can give everything much more room to breathe. This is particularly obvious with trees planted in the middle of your lawn. Cutting such trees down gives you a large area of lawn space back. It also removes shade from parts of your garden in the process.
But there are subtler ways in which space can be created through hedge removal. You might have hedges as boundaries for your garden. They are admittedly aesthetically pleasing. They are also effective at maintaining privacy. However, they grow out as well as up, and remove dozens of accessible square feet from your garden footprint. Replacing your hedges with fencing can give you those square feet back. This change allows you free movement right up to the boundary line itself.
Planting the Right Flowers
Thinking even smaller, your flowers and plants can have their own impacts on the sense of space in a garden. Unkempt and crowded flowerbeds can make a lawn feel cluttered, and draw the eye away from open space. Even just weeding can have a powerful effect with regard to space. But taking this a step further, plant bright flowers next to slender plants. This can help create a vibrant and diverse flowerbed. It will accentuate the space available to you outside.
Where your flowerbeds are placed will also, naturally, change the feel of your garden. Rows of beds can serve to narrow your garden down, while boundary flowerbeds again shrink your lawn footprint. The final decision on placement can only be yours, though, owning to the unique shape of many gardens.
Building a Patio
The footprint of your grass is not an extremely vital factor in creating space in your garden. Adding a patio to your back garden can make your outdoor space feel much larger
. This expansion occurs just by virtue of more of it being usable. Flattening out some garden space for a paved section gives you more room to entertain. You can decorate it with further useful items like chimineas or brick barbeques. Also adding some nice furniture can give you somewhere calm to sit
Designing Paths
Further to building out a patio, you could extend paving to pathways that circle focal points of your garden. These focal points could be trees, flowerbeds or other points of interest. This approach dramatically increases the walkable space of your garden in less kind conditions. It also makes you more likely to enjoy your garden from new angles.
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