Contemporary Family Garden
The trick with a family garden is to create a design that not only looks good but is incredibly practical. After all, a garden needs to cater to the needs of you, your children and your friends. This means a combination of surfaces to deal with the various activities it will be subjected to, not forgetting planting to add interest, shade and perhaps even as a source of food (and learning for the children). How to create this? Ideally, you'd have a big enough space, as in this garden, to fit in everything on your wish list. However, even a smaller space can be made to measure.
Sociable Garden
In a garden that you'll be sitting in to entertain, you'll naturally crave some privacy. The best way to do that - apart from building tall walls or fences all the way around it - is to plant climbers and trees to create a screen. If you do this, consider your neighbours - if you're going to be blocking their sunlight, it's likely they'll be unhappy; equally, putting trees very close to your or their house is never a good idea. However, grouping trees towards the end of your garden will create a screen in that area and a view that you can enjoy from the house.
Urban Garden
Like many urban gardens, this one is L-shaped, which means not only is the side return often too small to do anything meaningful with, but also that the view from within the house into the side return is often quite bland (or of the neighbouring house). This design combats these problems firstly with a white painted wall. The wall reflects light back into the house, provides privacy and a backdrop for the architectural planting in front. Also, the shallow nature of the border in front of the wall means that the side return is uncluttered and therefore spacious enough to provide a sheltered seating area or place for children to play.
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