Ideas for top of the garden


This is the top part of our south facing garden, we live in Derbyshire. We have a traditionally laid out garden that didn’t have many mature plants when we moved in, and we only really started doing anything with it last year.

You can see where the 14’ trampoline once was, it is fairly level side to side but slopes away from the fence at the back and we want to keep the concrete path at the front. Neither fence is ours, and there is about a 8” to 12” drop from the bottom of the gravel board at the back to our grass level. We need access to get behind the shed, but the bins/storage box in the pictures will be gone 

The only things I have on my wish list are:
1. to put some tall shrubs in a deep border along the back that will grow up and hide the back fence
2. to curve the border round quite deep on the left where the builders bags are, so we can put in some shape - it’s a very ‘square’ garden.
1. to put some tall shrubs in a deep border along the back that will grow up and hide the back fence
2. to curve the border round quite deep on the left where the builders bags are, so we can put in some shape - it’s a very ‘square’ garden.
If anyone has any good suggestions I’d really appreciate it, the kids want to put in a patio but we just don’t have the cash to do it properly and it would need a wall at the front because of the slope 











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Thanks for the advice.
Maybe something like this?
Or like this with decking but maybe not the mismatched chairs!
I find www.gardenia.net quite useful for visualising plant combinations, I know it's American but mostly the plants are relevant.
Also have a browse around at some garden design blogs. I find https://blog.lisacoxdesigns.co.uk/ to be really inspiring (https://blog.lisacoxdesigns.co.uk/from-the-drawing-board/from-the-drawing-board-oxshott-garden-one-year-on/ is one of my favourite gardens!)
All the best and have fun!