Why it works - a tiny garden design
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Thank you so much for your comments on Saturday’s small garden design case study - today, we’re going to take a quick midweek look at the tiniest of garden corners, and why this design works.
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Isn’t this the sweetest garden corner? There’s something about it that’s utterly charming: I want to work out why this is. What is it about this design that makes the whole thing work?
The first impression is that of simplicity.
But when you look more closely at this spot, and count the number of items, you see that there’s a lot going on. There’s a shed that takes up a lot of the space, there’s a woven hurdle fence with a brush willow fence behind that. There’s a compost heap, a container, an obelisk, a birdfeeder and a nesting box, and there are a lot of plants.
Working on the theory of ‘less is more’, this space shouldn’t work. But it does. When you first look, there’s a feeling that it’s quite a calm space, lived-in - and it clearly has a sense of purpose.
This is all down to some very clever design decisions: let’s take a look at them: