Ideas for my field - future garden

hello I have a 40x40 meters field (about 130x130 feet) with no plants, no constructions.
I would like you to help me to design my future garden, i have some ideas but i can tell you that i want it to be an attractive garden and a place to go, relax, enjoy ... I had thought about doing a pond, and plant some ornamental trees also, but i dont know which...

As for the climate is temperate pampas i think, and there is enough moisture throughout the year and the land is near the river.

about my taste .. I watched a lot of pictures and different gradens and I like them all, for example rock gardens,Japanese gardens and Zen style (Oriental), as i said i would like to have a pond and some koi fishes in it .

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Here it is an idea i had:







THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!

 

Well get on with it then. We'll have a great deal of pleasure telling you
"Well I wouldn't have done it that way"! It's the British way !

I'll start - Since when has West been spelt with an 'O' ?

Keep us up to date. Cheers, Tony.

 

don't put a little rock garden here and a little pond there and a bit of a veg plot over there...etc... better is to stay with one major feature, lets say your pond and some lawn and trees
some tips for design purposes: repetitions are good, means less varieties of plants (avoiding the jumble of the dedicated gardener who wants it ALL in his garden, like me for instance:-)
only choose trees and shrubs which grow to a height and spread and habit you want -this will spare you all the cutting people do because specimens grow to fat
you have to give it quite some time to grow and look proper, this will take 3 to 5 years min, esp with trees
the bigger you make your pond the better it can sustain itself (by the way were will the water come from?)

 

I'd say plant everything you can. Rabbits and deer will wipe most of it out for you, and then you'll take a step back, have a good think, and then come up with a plan that might just work.

 

thank you for your answeres
the water comes from a water well... it's groundwater ..

 

1a. Visit other gardens, photograph ideas that you like (make sure to take photographs from every angle, you can never have enough to remind you of WHY and HOW an idea worked). I take a tape measure with me when I visit gardens!!, and I'm not shy about measuring HOW wide a path is - often things "look right" because the perspective is good, and that is achieved by the dimensions and proportions of things

1b. Make plans, try to visualise how the garden will look as the plants grow.

2a. Hard landscaping first. If you want to change the levels get a Digger in (I hire one and do that myself, its not hard to do).

2b. Pay attention to the perimeter - you might need some trees for a windbreak around the perimeter, or wire netting etc. to keep animals out - no sense all your hard work being eaten by vermin!

3a. Plant the things that will take a long time to grow early on, preferably in the first season. Get all the trees in. Plant hedges to make the "rooms" for your garden. Buy the biggest you can afford to "save growing time". I do this in the Autumn because bare-rooted plants are cheaper and establish more quickly than pot-grown ones.

3b. If you do not have a large enough budget to afford to do it all, comfortably, start propagating. Make a small area for "growing on" and improve the soil there, then take cuttings, ask friends for cuttings / plants, grow from seed.

4. Lastly, plant the smaller plants. You might want to plant some annuals in the early years so you have SOME plants / colour, of you might propagate some tender plants that will grow and establish more quickly (I'm thinking of Dahlias, but maybe you live in a Mediterranean country?)