12 'narrow garden' design tips and ideas

Make your narrow backyard garden look wider (and more beautiful) with these clever garden design ideas, tips and tricks.

Urban gardens are often long and thin. Even country gardens can be short and narrow. These 12 real gardens show you what can be achieved by following a few simple garden design and landscaping principles. Successful gardening starts with good garden design!

Some of the gardens featured open once a year in Faversham Open Gardens and Garden Market Day, held on the last Sunday in June every year.

There is more about some of the Faversham long, thin town gardens here:http://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/6-easy-tips-narrow-town-garden-success/

Some also open once a year in Whitstable, via the NGS. Check the NGS website for dates.

You can also read more about the Whitstable gardens here:http://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/how-to-create-a-delightful-seaside-garden/

and here: http://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/8-steps-long-thin-garden-dreams/

Find out more about Francine Raymond's yellow and grey garden on her blog:http://www.kitchen-garden-hens.co.uk/

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