Reverse area in front garden.

After spending a lot of time & money making the front look like a garden not a jungle of nothing.Spent since end of April doing it when we first moved in. We now have decided to change 75% of it. Due to people parking opposit the gate on other side of the rd. Cant do nothing about that police say its legal.So have been driving in & reversing out sometimes that is a nightmare. So to save the stress and damage to my car.Its easier "but" a lot of hard work to drive in and reverse back the driveway cant do it the other way. So my question is were could I look for garden designs that work round this or could anyone offer suggestions on this project. The garden is large & square that will have to have at least half of it take out cut across like a triangle. We have decided to save cost to take all the slabs out the back patio and use in the front garden & whole driveway so all matches (plenty of slabs 100 plus)replace the back with decking at the same time. What plants are good for planting in between paving slabs..Slabs are 60cm sq.so all spaces will be that wide unless I can come up with some type of design.Half of the garden that will be left is grass.Can get rid of that once I decide what to do with this funny shape.As bungalow facing front there will be a fence on the left with poss a border? half the garden (well triangle shaped) slabbed then grass then a large border which has shrubs already growing which at the moment plan to leave there.after that is a wall about 3 1/2 foot high. ANY IDEAS this is a big job but would like it to still look like a bit of a garden and not just a cold slabbed front. Plan to start this in about 2-3 weeks time help :(

 

Pictures or drawings would help

 

I have the same issue. I find it easier to drive in forward and reverse out. Next door to me is the church and they have a bingo hall, and on bingo night people use their cars to travel, oh, 2 or 3 whole streets to get to the bingo, and they park all around my drive. I just reverse out very slowly, sometimes doing a 3 or 5 point turn to get out. All other traffic that turns up after I've reversed into the road simply has to wait. If they want to get upset, let them whine at the people that made it so difficult to manoeuvre.

Don't sacrifice your garden for others. Just take your time reversing out.

 

Have you thought about the hard plastic stuff that's like a honeycomb that the grass grows through? It's not suitable for parking on full time, but is good for driving across. You just mow the grass as normal. My neighbour has it and it's working really well for him

 

Thanks for your replys..Due to the mount of rain we get here it would have to be done properly.We have not long got the garden to look like this as the whole lot was about a foot plus high all the bushes double the height. So everything infront of bungalow goes.Then from about half way up across to about the 2nd conifer will be slabbed with some type of design with what left which wont be a lot. I hope this gives you more of an idea. Should have done pic in the first place Were the conifers are(x3) there will be a 4 foot fence.