The Complete How to Be a Gardener by Alan Titchmarsh

Author:Alan Titchmarsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448140749
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

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The modern design (far left) is one solution in this ‘no space’ garden, but if you prefer something more formal and traditional, then a simple arrangement of paths at right angles to one another, along with dwarf box hedging, seats and focal points, may suit your taste.

Long and lean

There are more long, lean gardens around than you might think. Mostly they are older, town gardens where, in order to make sure everyone had at least a little bit of road frontage, the original planners carved the building plot up into a lot of thin slices.

By its very nature, the long thin garden draws your eye straight to the far end, where it loses interest. There are several tricks that will remedy this; the idea is to find a way of slowing the eye down by creating some interesting diversions on the way.

One way to do that is to divide the garden up into several smaller and squarer shapes, which each make a ‘room’ that could have quite a different character. You might have a lawn and flower garden in one, a paved seating area with containers in another, and perhaps a formal ornamental vegetable and herb garden in another.

This is the plan that was decided upon (left) but there is an alternative (right) which is every bit as workable. It’s all a matter of taste.

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