Hit me with your ideas! I am just sketching up ours because we have renovated the house, and now with the weather improving we are concentrating on outside which right now looks like a hovel!
SO far I have on my wish list
Cubby/sandpit ara
Decking area decorated
ANother deck area to cover up the ugly concrete we can't get rid of
Vegie patches (they are in) with picket fence around them to cordon them off
A fairy/butterfly garden area
A frog bog/pond (DH will say no because of mozzies but I can dream plus won't the fish/frogs eat the larvae?? )
Lots of natives
Anyone else got any good ideas/web site recommendations?
OOohhhhhh wood fired oven would be ace! We have a kitchen going in - well massive bbq and sink thing with storage and benches but DH just needs to install it, but no pizza oven - am thinking maybe fire pit would be cool? Or hot
A day bed, or at least a bench/chair, that is tucked away in a corner or surrounded by plants to chill out/read a book/catch some sun/lazily watch the little ones play.
My dream garden is in the making.But to add to it -
An undercover BBQ decked area over our well, a cubby house, swings and slide for kidlets, old garden tidied up, orchard re planted, raised veggie patch near chook coup and grand plan chook coup completed. I would also LOVE to see an old blackwood stump converted to a fountain with a pond and some fairy ornaments and a dark part of the garden planted with some winter blooming weeping wattle trees and a garden bench to over look the entire garden as well as another water ffeature but I want a naked lady thats washing her hair surrounded by bright coloured/ tropical style plants .....
I was just out the back thinking about this the other day- we rent though and have no money so it was all dreams.. BUT...
A huge sandpit/cubby house kids area
A pool with lush plants all around it
A huge gazebo thingy over the top of our water tank so we can take advantage of the excellent views- the BBQ and outdoor seating can go there!!
a nice solid wooden fence all around the house to make it child escape proof
A really good chicken coop with chooks!!
Also fruit trees/bushes. The girls have apple, orange and mandarin trees in "their" garden, as well as strawberry plants. There is also an almond tree - I have amazing memories of my grandparents' almond tree and I hope I can get ours like theirs was eventually. Their garden is filled with daisy bushes and similar that are really hardy, so the girls can pick flowers without me getting upset about what they pick, and they pick fruit whenever they're hungry outside playing. Also a beautiful seat that converts to a day bed out under the trees so I can pretend to be watching them while relaxing with a book.
Gas fired pizza oven instead of a wood fired one. If you burn hickory chips it still has the woodfired taste, but takes no time at all to heat up.
Last but definitely not least, a dog - nothing like watching your kids running around frolicking with a furry friend.
Sunken lounge area
Gazebo area secluded from rest of garden with spa
bbq area, fully kitted out
Vegetable gardens
frog/fish pond
Fae friendly areas
kids play area (cubby, sandpit, climbing apparatus)
walkways and deckings, surrounded by lush vegetation
gorgeous grass area
would love a maze or labyrinth
memorial garden
lap pool
little quiet areas for meditation
then another garden area for the chooks & assorted animals
Jamie Durie has some great outdoor room books around
Your dream backyard....
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