Hi and welcome Merlot Madam. Never mind the surveyor - what you YOU feel about it? Our front garden was a lawn with overgrown shrubs surrounding it. The first thing I did was to dig a small pond and make a bed for perennials in the centre of this. The pond has a huge (now) march marigold in it and blends into the flower bed beautifully. I eventually got fed up of mowing what turned into just a path of grass between the hard-pruned and planted up borders and the island in the centre. It is now a bark chip path and the far end near the garden wall is my 'woodland' garden.
Is there lawn? Are you happy with it? Do you want to make a path through it - straight or snaking? Do you want flowering plants? I love perennials because you don't have to 'do' them every year and you can collect them one or two at a time. It's all your choice - good luck with it.
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