Designing a Small Garden: The Decisions That Matter
Where the seating belongs, whether a lawn pays off, when a path helps and how to screen views: the decisions for a small garden, with two explained examples.
Smart solutions for compact outdoor spaces
Water doesn't need a pond: bowl, trough, channel, bubbling stone or rain chain compared. What each option needs in space, power and care, and how to secure it when small children play in the garden.
Ideas for long, narrow gardens behind terraced and semi-detached houses: sections instead of a corridor, a destination at the end, the path along the edge and screening that costs little width. With the limits of each idea.
Ten small garden ideas with pictures, sorted by your situation: terraced house, narrow plot, shade, entrance, with or without a lawn. For each idea: what it suits and where its limits are.