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Ross Andrew Gray@ross-andrew-gray

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#1 · 14th October 2026, 6:56 pm

Quote from Ross Andrew Gray on 14th October 2026, 6:56 pm

Doing our first garden in our new home, enjoyed looking through 30 garden designs course, L shape youtube video tips and some articles.

Got too many ideas! but rather than a hidden wrap around, the L for us is flipped, so the back right corner is missing, taken up by a brick electrical substation, it's north/north east facing so the sun runs across the back kind of in a diagonal. Just wondering if you'd use the same ideas of 1/3s, wildlife and height, and is if there's any other general tips for the hard corner jutting into the garden or this kind of shape, can't seem to find much anywhere? 

Any tips, much appreciated 

Ross 

Doing our first garden in our new home, enjoyed looking through 30 garden designs course, L shape youtube video tips and some articles.

Got too many ideas! but rather than a hidden wrap around, the L for us is flipped, so the back right corner is missing, taken up by a brick electrical substation, it's north/north east facing so the sun runs across the back kind of in a diagonal. Just wondering if you'd use the same ideas of 1/3s, wildlife and height, and is if there's any other general tips for the hard corner jutting into the garden or this kind of shape, can't seem to find much anywhere? 

Any tips, much appreciated 

Ross 

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Lee Garden Ninja@lee

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#2 · 15th October 2026, 12:36 pm

Quote from Lee Garden Ninja on 15th October 2026, 12:36 pm

Hi @ross-andrew-gray

Great to hear from one of my online garden design students! Ahhh, the inverted L-shape—now this is tricky, but not impossible. Before I advise, could you upload a few pictures so other readers know what we're talking about and can help too?

File size is limited to 3 MB per file, so you may want to use an online JPEG reducer if they're large, but it would really help me advise. 

All the best

Lee Garden Ninja

 

Hi @ross-andrew-gray

Great to hear from one of my online garden design students! Ahhh, the inverted L-shape—now this is tricky, but not impossible. Before I advise, could you upload a few pictures so other readers know what we're talking about and can help too?

File size is limited to 3 MB per file, so you may want to use an online JPEG reducer if they're large, but it would really help me advise. 

All the best

Lee Garden Ninja

 

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