If a garden is getting on in years, a garden redesign brings momentum to the low-tension appearance. A systematic approach ensures that your creative ideas come together in a harmonious arrangement of plants and design components. You can find out how to skilfully redesign your garden here.

Proper planning is key when it comes to landscaping

Create order and plan purposefully - that's how it works

Before you redesign your garden, we recommend a thorough cleaning. Get rid of all the legacy issues that have been a thorn in your side for a long time. This includes work such as clearing dead trees, removing weeds, mowing the lawn and pruning shrubs, hedges and trees. A clean and tidy area reveals all the potential for a successful garden redesign.

Then take a seat in the middle of the garden and let your ideas run wild. As a suggestion, we have compiled popular ideas for a garden redesign for you:

  • Low-maintenance garden with hardy perennials and evergreen ground covers instead of a demanding lawn
  • Cottage garden with a colorful mixed culture of colorful flowers and crunchy vegetable plants
  • Redesign the garden according to Feng Shui to create a spiritual retreat
  • Japanese garden, as a stylish interpretation of Asian garden art with stones and gravel

Once the decision has been made, create a true-to-scale plan drawing. Not only note the size of the individual beds, but also the soil conditions and the lighting conditions. From this, a detailed planting plan emerges automatically, giving concrete form to your horticultural dreams.

Begin garden remodeling - the starting signal will be given in April

Autumn and winter are the ideal times for the preparatory and planning work. After the fall clean-up, you can prepare the garden soil by working in 3 to 5 liters of compost per square meter. During the peaceful winter time, devote yourself to the floor plan and planting plan. You can often get hold of building materials, garden furniture and decorative items at bargain prices in winter.

When winter has finally said goodbye in April, garden centers and tree nurseries have a large assortment of young plants ready. The time window remains open until October to pave paths, build a new gazebo, create the pond. To ensure that everything runs smoothly, please coordinate construction work and planting times. We have summarized the most important dates for you here:

  • Lawn sowing: April and May or in September
  • Planting time for perennials and shrubs in containers: throughout the growing season
  • Planting time for bare-root shrubs and trees: October to March

If you are redesigning your garden, you can noticeably relieve your budget by growing plants yourself. So sow flowers, perennials and vegetables on the windowsill from February onwards in order to plant out the young plants from April/May.

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In every garden redesign, the ecologically oriented gardener reserves niches and corners as retreats for beneficial insects. An inverted flower pot filled with wood shavings provides a safe home for insects. A cat-proof hedgehog house helps the cute spiked bear through the winter. Mixed flowering hedges bear fruit in winter, which serve as a vital source of food for birds.

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Garden design