7 Hacks to Make Your Small Garden Look Bigger

Plant your favourite flowers along walls and fences to add some brightness and to spread their gorgeous scent all around your green space. Hanging flower baskets can also look great, says Lorainne.

Lorainne explains: “A diversified small garden, where there are plants of different shapes and sizes, can give off the impression of larger space. Aside from that, this trick also makes the garden look more visually appealing.”

Dunster adds: “A range of different sized plants means you can layer your planting and give it depth, although there is no need to place all your tall plants at the back of a border. Varying the heights makes your planting look more dense. Tall thin wispy plants such as Verbena bonariensis look good woven in between shorter flowering plants – you can see through them to the plants behind.”

If you’re short of growing space, consider creating a ‘living roof’, where flowers and greenery can be planted on top of the shed to give off an illusion of a bigger garden. The roof will also help attract more wildlife and help enhance the relaxing, natural feel of the plot, suggests Lorainne.

“You can use the roof of your shed as extra growing space – either cover with sedum matting or buy a roll of wildflowers to cover it – this will attract lots of pollinating insects into your garden and in turn, they will bring in the birds,” Dunster suggests.

Introducing a green roof works best on ‘pent’ sheds (with only one slope) that have a flatter roof, rather than those with a triangular ‘apex’ style roof, although it is possible on both, say shed experts Tiger Sheds (tigersheds.com).