If you have a very small town garden on a slight, you can grow Laurel, privet and Scots pine, as well as some inappropriately large shrubs, to make it dark and unappealing. If you decided to remove everything that was there and start again, pave the area throughout and allowing space for wider beds.
Take advantage of the slope to create the new garden on slightly different levels: shallow steps take you up to the terrace immediately adjacent to the house and then up again to the terrace with the water feature provided by the fountain and pool.
Changing the garden's design also allowed Sally to move the back gate from the centre of the end fence and position it at one side, making room for a shed. Climbers soon covered the fences on all sides of the garden to provide color and greenery on a second level, and a groups of pots and a sink garden provide extra space for yet more plant
Sally used reclaimed York stone to pave the major part of the garden, giving it a mature finish. Railway sleepers create wide, shallow steps that take you onto the slightly different levels of the garden.
To increase the garden's privacy and to turn it into a very sheltered spot where you could grow exotics, you can add trellis to the top of all the boundary fences.
Two-thirds of the way down the garden built a centrally positioned low wall from old honey-colored bricks, with pillars at each end and space at the sides. This is part of the water feature with a lion-head fountain centrally positioned and a deep, semi-circular pool below. This makes an eye- catching centerpiece from the terrace near to the house and concealed the end of the garden. The beds are irregular in size, following the staggered edges of the stone paving and together with this groups of pots, create a wide and curving pathway through the entire garden
Simplicity is the keynote to Sally's planting in a. small space. You can use a theme with plants or color, then repeats it through the garden to create harmony.
Here you can chose the birch as the star of the garden and planned the rest of the planting around this to include a range of textures and round-the-year interest.
Cranesbills, members of the geranium family, are easy to grow and flourish in sun or partial shade and in almost any soil except very wet. The flowers in pink, blue, purple and white appear in summer.
Compact perennial species grow to about 15 cm/6 in tall, and are ideal for use in a sink garden. Taller clump-forming species look effective grown in a flower border or amongst shrubs
