{"id":7041,"date":"2017-05-18T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designbuybuild.co.uk\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2017-07-07T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:51:27","slug":"gardens-uk-changed-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designbuybuild.co.uk\/gardens-uk-changed-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The changing face of the garden in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our gardens have been shrinking since the 1920s, and you\u2019ve probably not noticed it either. The British home has decreased in size by 50%, and gardens have also depleted from 168 metres squared to 163.2 metres squared between the years 1983 and 2013. With the help of Arbor Deck, specialists in composite decking<\/a>, we take a look at what has really happened to our gardens.<\/p>\n

In 2010, two million homes did not have a garden; 10.5% of homes will not have a garden by 2020. This questions how important our garden is and how we have used it over time. What becomes troubling within these figures is that 38% of children are more likely to become obese if they do not have access to a garden.<\/p>\n

Now, the most important feature of the garden isn\u2019t its layout, there\u2019s a lot more to it than that. During the Second World War, the garden was a space where vegetables could be planted to cope with the demands of rationing. They could also be used as a bomb shelter for those who were in more suburban areas. Now kept in pristine condition, gardens have changed. They aren\u2019t so much about vegetable patches and bomb shelters anymore; they are a space dictated by decoration and ornamentation.<\/p>\n

The materials that we so often use in our gardens are chosen by accessibility and size. With the rise of decking and replicating indoor spaces outdoors, the garden has become more than anything else a synthetic space \u2013 like the home itself. Some of the most classic changes to the British garden are as follows:<\/p>\n