We often think of a garden as an empty space and the only limiting factors are your boundaries. Our objective is to furnish your garden to meet your needs by thinking of the hard structure as planting furniture which you can position to balance with the open spaces. To get a feel for how radically you can change your garden, banishing all trace of what is currently there, or using what's there at the moment, try this simple exercise... Imagine your garden as a stage and your house as a prop with the garden scenery coming in from the wings. As you compose different stage sets, you should see your garden's possibilities emerging. You can use different elements such as blocks of planting, lawns, paving or decking to alter the foreground picture, the middle distance and a distant view. | 
