What to do if your garden is on a slope, whether its and upslope or downslope, gardens don't have to be made flatter to become better!

Brilliantly simple design tips to help you understand how you can create a functioning but beautiful garden when the ground is not flat!

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Front Gardens are so important, yet are often left as uninspiring gardens. But the front garden is what you and your visitors walk past to get to the front door - so the garden should say something about you!

So, this week's episode is dedicated to helping you transform your front garden into a place that puts a smile on your face and welcomes you home.

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Life would be so much easier if gardens were regular shapes, but more often than not now gardens come in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes.

So how do you design a garden in one? Well, there are some easy tips and hints to help you start the planning process and work out how you can fit a gorgeous garden into an odd shape.
 Phew!

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Gardens come in all shapes of rectangles - these can be long narrow rectangles, wide shallow shaped gardens or perfectly square spaces.

So what makes for an interesting design in a regular box-shaped garden?

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What does family-friendly mean in design and layout terms? Most gardens have to be multifunctional spaces, providing space for little people to boom about in BUT that the adults can relax and enjoy themselves in.

So what should you consider if you need your garden to work for everyone?

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You may think of garden styles as Cottage, Mediterranean, Contemporary, Minimalist etc but it's actually much simpler than that. But before you lay the styling out, you need to understand how each of these 3 main styles works and then decide which one would work best in your space.

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The key principle when you are faced with lots of decisions is to break these down into simpler decisions. And that is really all design is about, asking simple questions, the result of which will help you understand how you need your garden to be. 

It's not about imposing a shape style or planting scheme IN the garden.

To learn a bit more - try here or you could take a look at my book

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I am a lazy gardener, I want to spend time enjoying being in the garden, not fussing over the jobs and chores I think I need to do.
If you are like me, then listen in, and I will give you the best tip for making looking after your garden less stressful! Which has to be worth a listen - don't you think?

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Designing a garden can be daunting, especially if you don't know much about design, plants or gardening. 
But you can design your garden well, if you follow some simple steps.
The first one is eliminating negatives, you need to understand what are the emotional negatives and practical negatives your garden has. Resolve these and the garden is already a better place for you.

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What makes a garden truly amazing?
The truth is nothing  - it's a choice; Does the garden amaze us? Creating an amazing garden isn't then an impossible dream!
If you want to know how you can transform your garden from ordinary to amazing, listen to this series.
Oh and thank you if you do.

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