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If you’re lucky enough to start a garden from scratch you can decide where you want things to be and how you will use the garden will influence this a lot. If you have small children then you’ll probably want a lawn and not a pond. If you’ve got a bad back and can’t bend down you might want raised beds to plant in. If you like sunning yourself you’ll want to make sure you find the sunniest spot in the garden to sit.

If you’re using the garden in the evening you need to make sure you’ve got the right amount of lighting. You can get solar lighting which can light path ways without the need for complicated electrical work which now requires a part p qualified electrician if you’re connecting to the mains. If you’re planning on a lawn then you need to think about the pathways onto it and make sure it’s all wide enough for you to get your mower on to. If you’re planning a barbecue area then where should it be? In the sunny part of the garden, but perhaps on a paved patio area, close to where you’ll be sitting? All these things need to be planned out in advance before you start work on your new garden.

What plants you like will also influence the design, just as the way the garden faces will influence where you put plants and what plants you can have.If you’ve got a shady garden then sun loving plants will only get disappointed in the shade and never do as well as they should.

If you’ve got a boggy garden then you might consider improving the drainage. This is one of the first tasks to look at doing. Then hard landscaping should be done next, the paths and patio areas, then features such as ponds, barbecues and raised beds. Once all that is done you will be able to concentrate on soil and planting up. Putting a lawn down is an easy task if you’ve read the instructions and done all the preparation prior to ordering the turf. Rolawn have plenty of advice on creating a lawn from scratch.

Making your garden perfect is easy – whether you tackle it as a big task or do it slowly year by year is up to you and your budget!