Help!!!....I'm a newbie and i need some help!!

Hey everyone.
I decided that this year i am going to get my front and rear gardens sorted out, but being a complete beginner to gardening i don't know where to start.
I'm going to do the front garden first, which isn't a large plot to work on. It's basically a triangular area at the side of our angled driveway. I quite like the alpine rockery look. Is this a fairly low maintenance garden? as i have four young kids, one of which is autistic.
Any ideas would be great.
Thanks in advance
adema

 

We have a fair number of Alpine rockery areas and can weed the biggest of them (30 foot by 20 foot in a day. AND that only needs doing a couple of times a year.

 

have you been in touch with THRIVE? - they are into helping people with any problems relate to garening as a way to helping to realte with everything else. http://www.thrive.org.uk/

Re your probelm - have you got a photo you can put on so we can see? That would help get some ideas going.

 

Also consider a herb garden, young children like the various different smells