What to do with a 120ft long back garden

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foxylady

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Does anyone have suggestions on what to with this - prefererably low maintenance
 
Not sure of the width maybe 20- 30 ft wide and not really sloping but a little uneven in places
 
I'd go with a stand of trees at the end of the garden - fast growing biomas willow or eucalyptus which you could use in a few years for firewood, an area of lawn with some nice flower beds and definitely a herb & veggie patch. Keep the herb/veggie patch close to the house so that you can just nip out and cut a fresh lettuce for dinner or grab herbs as needed - if it's at then end of the 120 foot garden you might tend to forget about it. Stick up a bird box and a couple of feeders to keep them away from your veggies!!
 

There's a lot to be said for all of that. A big +1 for the herb patch close to the house. Perhaps around a patio.
You could break up the space with a path and a pergola also as it wouldn't seem as narrow and long then. [broken link removed]

A couple of nice ideas here: http://www.floralandhardy.co.uk/pages/long-thin-suburban
http://www.housetohome.co.uk/articles/advice/Low_maintenance_garden_on_a_thin_plot_120641.html
 
Thnaks for all the useful ideas folks - some very good ones there. House is terraced so everything would have to be dragged through the house but I suppose it would be worth it in the end
 
You could split it with some tall grasses/trees as a break and make a hiden space at the end. Would be a nice oasis of calm where you could hide out on sunny days.
Leo
 
Worth geting a few landscape gardeners/designers to look at it and give you a price, if too dear you could use their ideas and do it yourself
 
Think things out carefully.
Ask yourself the following:

1. Do I like gardening?
2. What can I afford?
3. Have I got sufficient time?
4. Are children going to use it?
5. What can I do for the environment?
6. Think about your neighbours.

When you have thought all these factors out, browse through the gardening books, buy a few interesting ones, (I love anything written by Monty Don). Check out a few websites www.rhs.co.uk is a good one.
Do the work yourself if you can, its by far more satisfying and interesting than just paying huge amounts of money for a garden in which you have no emotional involvement.
 
You could offer to sell half of the garden to your next door neighbour. I lived in a 120' garden and purchased half of my neighbours gardens on either side of me, giving me a huge T shaped garden. The plan was to continue doing this with the neighbours behind but never got around to doing it. Sold it in the end.
 
corkgal said:
Sell it as a site?
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Thank god its not 2006 or that may have been taken seriously... a nice block of flats in the back garden.

OP Put a seating area in the first 30 or 40 feet and the rest grass and nice small trees and shrubs
 
changes said:
Thank god its not 2006 or that may have been taken seriously... a nice block of flats in the back garden.

OP Put a seating area in the first 30 or 40 feet and the rest grass and nice small trees and shrubs
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My ideal house is a new build in an urban area. Not a block of flats!
 
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