Having evaluated the many elements of the design, I was able to decide upon where different elements were to go & to finally draw it all up. I will take the different elements in turn & using magnified sections of the full design drawing, explain my reasons for each decision.

 The area immediately around the caravan door & the approach pathway is my most visited zone. It is a very sheltered spot & catches the sun until well into the afternoon, so the beds here have the potential to be very productive. The decking gives extra height & much reduces slug & snail damage to more vulnerable plants. The pergola provides vertical growing space, sheltered from the wind. This extends my zone 0 during the warmer months, which is when I will be most needing to tend plants in pots on the decking. A trellis on the caravan provides a very warm growing wall for half-hardy climbers & the leaf cover gives some heat protection to the caravan. The water butt on the decking provides my drinking water when it is fresh enough. A couple of trees in pots give more height & provide me with opportunities to try out new guilds.

 Scented plants & colourful flowers around the doorway & next to the bench are placed where I can most enjoy them. The compost bucket sits on the ground just below the decking, where it can be easily filled from the caravan door & just as easily picked up from below to carry around to the compost bins. The beds in front of the decking are filled with soft fruit bushes (currants & gooseberries), with aromatic herbs, alliums, self-sowing vegetables like rocket, parsnips & kale & good ground cover plants like strawberries & montia sibirica.

 The blue plastic water butts fit nicely behind the end of the caravan where they are out of sight, yet easily accessible from either side of the garden. Linking them together & feeding water from both gutters into them gives a good potential for rooftop water collection. They are raised high enough to get a watering can underneath & the lids bolted on for safety, in case children are around. The compost bins are set back into the hedge giving enough space to get a wheelbarrow through the gap. Their fronts lift out to allow full access to dig out the compost when it is needed. A fourth butt to brew comfrey liquid in sits between the water supply & the comfrey bed.

 Tansy & Sweet Cicely (good herbs to hang in the caravan doorway & repel summer flies) are planted in a bed bounded by a hedge & a well-used path, preventing them from getting too invasive. The telegraph pole is left with access for when it needs to be serviced.

 Around the back of the garden against the shady caravan wall I have planted a plentiful supply of comfrey to provide both fertilising mulching material & the basis for a liquid feed. It is also a good medicinal & tea herb, attracts the bees & provides flowers & small leaves for salads. It will grow well in a difficult spot & will be confined by the boundaries defined by the caravan & the path. The centre bed contains suckering raspberries that will also be restrained by the surrounding pathways. These are underplanted with aromatic herbs (chives, marjoram etc) & clover (nitrogen fixer) & strawberries as ground cover.

 A fig has been planted in the centre, which will in time establish itself, so this bed will provide another good supply of soft fruit. The walk to the shed for tools passes by this bed, which at the right time of year may prove to be a bit of a distraction from doing any work in the garden!

 The beds that I have created in front of the two hedges both need strong plants in them that can look after themselves up against such strong competition. The two stretches of hedge though contain slightly different species & this may be due to their different aspects. The hedge in the back garden has a lot more bramble & elder, which provide fruit for the birds & myself & so to a degree I have to be careful about when I prune them back. Plants that like a bit more sun would do better in this bed than in the other one & this is also a slightly windier & wetter spot too. I have gone for good self-sowing plants (i.e. Evening primrose, Aquilegia, Fennel) & vigorous species such as Mallow & Buddleia, which will hopefully hold their own in the face of bindweed & bramble in particular. The Buddleia I have planted in the corner behind the shed door, where it can also be contained, yet provides a sheltered spot for butterflies to feed on it during the summer.

 The hedge in the front garden is a much shadier spot & is has a rain shadow at it's base. Blackthorn & Holly is much more dominant here, the former suckering vigorously in the immediate area. It certainly seems to be a much more difficult place for other plants to grow. Again I have planted big strong plants that I have known to do really well in other places, in the hope that they will hold their own here too. Mallow & Sedum provide edible leaves (& flowers from the former). Hibiscus syriacus will also provide salad flowers & Lovage seeds & leaves for salad (small amounts) & drying as a flavouring. The strawberries again provide edible ground cover. The other plants are just beautiful & of course vigorous too.

 The shed needs to be painted to improve its heat absorbing capacity & blend it better into the environment. It also has a trellis attached to it to support climbing plants & to prevent them from touching the surface of the metal & getting scorched. I have planted Jerusalem artichokes at the western end of the bed, to provide a windbreak, biomass & a self-storing winter food.

 I will underplant different climbers to experiment with guilds again. The plum at the eastern end is fan-trained against the shed for a better crop & loganberries trained along the wall in between. Low sun-loving plants fill the front of the bed. The pond is sited so that it is viewed from both the decking & out of the caravan side window. The soil dug from the hole is used to make a rockery, along with the large stones from near the house. Like the spiral bed, this will provide areas with different microclimates; hot & dry at the top, sunny to the south, slightly moister & shadier to the north.

 The pond provides extra habitats, both in & around it for greater diversity within the garden. I intend to plant mostly native species & aim to attract plenty of wildlife to the pond. It would be great to see tadpoles developing in there in particular. The south end is deep to accommodate a Water Lily & provide enough depth for frogs to hibernate there too. At the north end is the shallows, where tadpoles can sunbathe & wild animals can climb out if they fall in. It is also sited to be easily watched from the two viewpoints, in case birds for instance come down to wash & drink. Tall species at the south end provide midday summer shade & a bog garden at the north end provides another new habitat for Irises, Houttonia etc. Reedmace is planted in a bucket outside the pond liner to keep it from invading the whole pond.

 The south end of the decking is where the real sun-loving plants (& people!) hang out. It is the place from which virtually the whole garden can be viewed & where beautiful views over the orchard can be enjoyed too. There is room enough for a table & chairs (for drinks or meals) & also space for me to do my morning exercises. The pots around the decking will be used to grow mostly salads during the summer & in the winter they will be moved back closer to the caravan.

 Again, scented & colourful flowers surround the table for maximum sensual stimulation! The plants around the outside of the decking will also be mostly low level sun-loving plants, surrounding soft fruit bushes again, though some climbers could make use of the handrail posts above them. Among others, I intend to grow tomatoes, cucumbers & squashes here, as this area receives maximum rain as well as full sunshine. These plants should they not die back too much in the winter, will also cut down the amount of wind blowing under the caravan during the colder months.

 While the positioning of some plants is quite clear in advance from my own & other peoples' growing experiences, others are open for experiment & what might start in one place may well find itself somewhere else. Plants are easily movable elements within the design, unlike the groundwork, so there is not so much emphasis on getting these absolutely in the right place from the very beginning. More room is thus open for experimentation & that is when useful new discoveries get made..... & may there be many of those!

 The ways that I have applied this Final Design are to be found on the Implementation page.