How to turn a wide shallow backyard into the perfect garden

Top garden designer Posy Gentles on how to design a wide shallow garden - how to divide up the space and make it look longer, with before-and-after pix and best tips!
00:00 The first step in designing a wide shallow garden
00:48 Garden designer Posy Gentles: https://www.posygentles.co.uk/
01:00 What the wide shallow garden was like to begin with
01:32 The shed - before and after
01:54 My rough plan of what the garden looked like before
01:56 How Posy divides up a wide shallow garden
02:39 How to use planting to break up a wide shallow garden
04:06 Don't make the mistake of clearing the centre of a shallow wide garden
04:15 Create areas so you have a 'journey'
05:18 Connect the areas of the garden to each other
05:48 More ideas for shallow wide garden design
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07:17 Use vertical space - cautiously!
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