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I am in proces of purchaising a tiny litle garden - or garden to be ! !! !! ! Anyone expert or enthusiast on this theme??? Thanks.

I´d say it depends upon how much time you want to spend in your garden, and how much experience you have. I have a full time job and additional the housework, and the garden is about 150 square meter. I have a hay field right behind my house with the woods starting beneath it. So english garden style with english lawn is impossible, because if I remove everything except the grass, there will not be much green left. ^^

So our grass and lawn is pretty naturally, with moss, clover, flowers, and lots of different plants, but in addition its also needs no care. Mawing every 2 weeks is enough. I also dont need any fertilizer or anything else non natural. I only use some kind of raw rake in the spring, to remove dead stuff that laid under the snow and open the upper lawn surface, because so we have less moss and more normal lawn plants. ^^

I also look or plants that are origin around my area. So as example you nowadays find lots of raspberries, blackberries, currants and so on, that have gigantic fruits. To receive them you only need to fertilize them every 4 weeks, cut them at special points twice a year, add them water, whenever there is no rain, .... My parents had such and even with caring them very much, often some of those plants died. Instead at my old plants (so not the plant itself is old but the kind of plant is cultivated since a long time) I dont need to care for them to grow, I only need to care, that they dont overgrow my garden. ^^

If you are allergic to wasps, I would avoid fruit trees, because when the fruit fall down, they are a feast for wasps, and you can step on them without purpose. So we have a nest of them in our garden and its normally no problem, we know how to handle them, when they are around us, but in autumn, when some smaller fruits lie hidden in the grass and you step on it, it sucks. ^^

So I think important for your start is:

Which neighbor area do I have? (No need for english mawn, when you only can care for it on weekend and have fields beside you.)

How much time do I want to spend on garden work? (No need to buy and plant plants, that will die within a year because they need more care then you can give.)

Do I want to have fruits or vegetables or herbs from my garden? (I really can recommend you herbs, once you have a good amount of them, you always can use them for the kitchen, you also can freeze them, so you have some for winter.... So I didnt know much about herbs, I simply bought three different kinds of parsley, three different kinds of chives, ... and the ones that survived my care became my favorite ones. ^^ )

You should know, that the more natural your garden is, the more insects and animals you will have as guests. Depending on you, this might be an advantage or misadvantage.

Thank You very much for the, detailed, reply. You seem to really enjoy the nature around You.

I also want it more natural-like. By English classic I mean more the medow one with the self spreading annuals (my grandparents garden was like that), more than the well cut lawn. That would be a bit boring and actually impossible, because I really might not be able to be there that often. ...Actually my last drop impulse to really go on and buy it was that I found a pack of seeds - descandands of my grandfather´s flowers in my wellington boot ..

The garden is in protected area (do you say rezervation in English??), so nothing too groomy and synthetic would do anyway. ..That was on the other hand reason for contemplating "Japaniese style", because there are forests near by and especially as I was afraid there would be pines on the garden and they usually don´t allow for flowers to grow. -But now I see there is actually only one pine (very badly cut because of electricity power line ..). The other trees are one of those fast growing leafy things (grow often around brooks, but not a wilow).

And my biggest wish would be to be able to walk there bare-feeted, so probably no raspberries (my parents have lot of those - it was great for starting the garden, because they grew very very fast and we had them as kind of separating fences between vegetable, flower and orchard garden, but then they started to have tendency to take over everything , so I am not very keen on them. Current would be nice - I like it and lot of people don´t and the black one is anticarcinogen all together terribly healthy.

I do not dare to have much fruits or veggies, because it would drive me mad, if people would be steeling it jumping on flowers etc. But I would like to have some apple or cherry tree - they are SO beautiful in blossom. Howerver I am of course not keen of wasps and stings (the 3cm wasps - hate them) as again I would like to be able to have it bare-feeted garden. - Sand paths could be nice??

I am not sure how to fence it too.. To be honest, might not be THAT shocking on THIS forum, as it might be on another ones, I have never in my life spoke to, let alone ordered any worker to my flat or garden...

New American Style,but I have a Japanese and veggie and herb garden.
Deer and wild animals take a toll on my orchard,fencing is a must.
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A picture of my water garden a few weeks ago,it's snowing.