Questions, questions…

Tomorrow is garden design presentation day, which is very exciting. But I also have a nagging worry that all my (increasingly ambitious) ideas are about to be severely pruned. I can’t gauge the scale of the garden, because with nothing else in it all you can see are the boundaries, and frankly it looks a different size from every viewing angle. So I can’t picture how much space each will each item on our wish list will take up. Can we fit a greenhouse I could sit in? Will the pool be big enough to make swimming a length worthwhile? And after mapping out all that, plus planting and raised beds and seating and play areas, how much lawn will we be left with?

 I remember seeing a house go up on a patch of land we pass on the way to school and being amazed that a *whole building* fitted in a gap I had barely previously noticed. And that fills me with optimism that our patch might be similarly Tardis-like. On the other hand…there are a lot of things we want to squeeze in without anything looking like it’s been squeezed in. I think I need to see shapes, to scale, on a plan. Which is what, fingers crossed, tomorrow will bring. I just hope my sprawling brief hasn’t been totally hacked back.