Four Ways to Transform Your Garden into an Adult Paradise

Whether your garden is a sprawling green oasis, and you can’t even see the perimeter from the kitchen window, or else a more intimate and compact space, you’re more fortunate than you know to have a garden in the first place.

Spending time outdoors, whether this is by yourself on a cool and windy evening to clear your head, or else hosting a family barbecue on a sunny bank holiday, is beneficial to both your physical health and emotional well-being.

It makes sense, then, to make the most of your outdoor space and with this in mind, here are four ways to transform your garden into an adult paradise.

Replace the Paving Stones

Firstly, when relaxing in the garden, it’s much harder to rejuvenate your mind after a hard working week if all you can see are cracked paving stones and growing weeds between each stone and this is why replacing the paving stones is a priority.

Moreover, you should definitely consider using Quorn Stone porcelain tiles, which is a manmade material that looks entirely natural, made from a combination of finely ground sand, kaolin clay, and feldspar. Flooring from Quorn Stone is not only attractive but also strong, durable, and incredibly easy to maintain and forms the perfect foundation for your new, adults-only garden.

Grow Your Own Fruit, Vegetables & Herbs

Next, if you’ve always harboured an inner desire to make like Felicity Kendall in The Good Life and finally have the chance to make your garden somewhere where you can grow your own food, then there are plenty of herbs, vegetables, and fruit that thrive in UK soil.

Fruits you could consider growing in the garden include figs, strawberries, gooseberries, apples, and rhubarb, and vegetables such as radish, shallots, courgettes, potted potatoes and beetroot are all great plants that enjoy British soil.

Build Your Own Outdoor Bar

There’s nothing more quintessentially English than relaxing with a beer or cider in the garden on a warm summer’s evening and if you resent having to rise from your lounger to get a drink from your fridge inside, there’s another option.

Building your own garden bar is considerably more affordable than you may think and there are plenty of options for materials and structure, including the following:

Affix a wooden pallet with a drop-down serving hatch to the fence or wall
Knock through the front of your garden shed to create an inside/outside bar
Box in a corner of your garden and use an overhead gazebo as the roof
Strive for Privacy

Finally, at the heart of a garden sanctuary just for adults is privacy, and this is why part of the transformation should focus on making the space as private and intimate as possible. Luckily, there are a myriad of ways to do this.

You could introduce oversized plants in large pots, layer contained flowerpots along the perimeter, utilise the vast space that climbing plants enjoy or even have a permanent, weather-resistant parasol over the seating area.