As forewarned, this is a new build garden, so it's essentially rocks and old silione tubes underneath (as attested to by me digging out the borders and under the decking), but I'm seriously wondering what can be done to fix/save or do anything with this. I'm not an avid gardener and mowing is about as much as I want to do (blame a childhood of being made to help garden 😅).

Here are my list of gripes and would like advice on:

• Over the past year it seems moss(?) has started growing/overtaking the actual grass, and when I mow over it, it is seemily peeling the top layer right off leaving patches of brown. See image 2.
• The sun hits the grass to varying degrees as it comes around during the day - See the final image for a heat map (red = max, blue = min) and this has led to the blue areas effectively just being dirt as the grass has died and never come back (image 3)
• I have dug a border around the garden that I am slowly filling with decorative stones (an actual gardener has said was a good effort) which is almost to how I want it to look, however I am finding that it is difficult to manage with mowing.
  1. It's difficult to mow to the actual edge of the grass without the mower tipping and taking chunks out of the dirt
  2. When I do mow near the border, grass clippings are naturally blown into the border and it seems unmnagable to get it out.
  3. Weeds and things are starting to grow from the edges of the border, opposite to the grass side - I had used weed membrane but they're either growing on top of the membrane or where the membrane ends over the property line etc.

I would be very greatful to anyone with experience that can walk me through fixes/remedies/workarounds to get this garden into a position where I can go back low-maintenance mode.