Crooked is Modern - Your Garden Doesn't Always Have to Be Perfect

If you're buying your dream home, you're not always lucky enough for the garden to offer optimal conditions. Many garden owners dream of a level garden with a large lawn, but a sloping garden with significant changes in elevation can also be beautiful and practical. It all depends on what you make of it.

Garden owners with flat plots have to put in a lot of effort to highlight solitary perennials, raised beds, and individual areas of their garden. If you have an uneven garden, this can become a true masterpiece for you.

First and foremost, you need to get a precise overview of your garden and, as always with good garden planning, consider which elements you want to create in it. You should also let go of the belief that your garden's structure is unchangeable. Even gardens with varying levels can be completely redesigned and reorganized as you wish. This way, you can decide in advance on your plan which areas of your garden should be particularly high or low, and which don't need to be altered.

It's also interesting to consider how you want to compensate for elevation differences in specific areas. For more demanding herb and vegetable beds, it might be sensible to level the height with the help of a wall. This makes it easy to access your plants, and your valuable soil is well-protected against erosion. A beautiful seating area or a fire pit can also become particularly cozy if they are lower-lying, reliably shielding you and your guests from annoying wind and curious glances. Such a wall can be constructed from railway sleepers, granite steles, or even broken stones as a dry stone wall. But clinker bricks, regular bricks, and planting rings can also provide a beautiful and durable solution.

In another part of the garden, you might prefer to create a gentle hill that slopes down gradually, sweetly accentuating the size of your garden. An embedded staircase, a path, a bridge, or even a stream are lovely elements that can significantly improve the sense of depth. This makes your garden exciting, spacious, and attractive. You can combine both basic principles by having a wall descend in steps. With clever planting, the whole arrangement will look harmonious and blend perfectly into your garden.