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Garden Ideas Needed!
Hi all,
I really need some suggestions on what I should do with this space in my garden...
It's the soil bit behind the pizza oven in the pic, with the massive green plant in the middle (no idea what that is!)
I guess I may have to move the oven, as it would burn anything behind it... The area is almost permanently in the shade of the 16m tall oak tree further back in the garden so I think I am slightly limited with what I can do.
The other half would love some kind of water feature as part of this area but budget is severely limited!
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Kevin
I really need some suggestions on what I should do with this space in my garden...
It's the soil bit behind the pizza oven in the pic, with the massive green plant in the middle (no idea what that is!)
I guess I may have to move the oven, as it would burn anything behind it... The area is almost permanently in the shade of the 16m tall oak tree further back in the garden so I think I am slightly limited with what I can do.
The other half would love some kind of water feature as part of this area but budget is severely limited!
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Kevin
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It's a Fatsia Japonica (False Castor Oil plant) by the look of it. If the patch got any sort of sun I would be inclined to grow veg in it.0
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If the oak shades it when in leaf, then you'd need to go for a) woodland plants which get going before they are shaded out by trees and b) plants which are OK in the shade.
a) Would be snowdrops, winters aconites, primroses, early daffs, etc
b) Would be hosta, ferns, bergenia, vinca, foxgloves, geraniums, lamium, hellebores etc
If you got rid of the fatsia, you could make a raised bed for the main section, then the 'sticky out' bit could be dug out to make a pool and a pump could circulate the water to a ‘letterbox shute' build into the wall of the raised bed.
You could make the raised bed of a height that peeps could sit on the edge while eating their pizza, bit like this, although not so high
That would be quite classy IMHO
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I like your water feature, what's behind the wall JJ, is it just pipes and pumps from the front reservoir..Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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Ooops, sorry those were just piccies from t'interweb.0
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salad crops and a few veg .0
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alpine strawberriesFreedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).
(I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,
(Sylvia Pankhurst).0 -
Fishpond. You can always buy a second hand pre formed pool very cheaply. You can plant it up, when you have some money you could put in a fountain.0
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I be a little bit warry of planting anything to close to the pizza oven in case it gets burnt!:kisses3: Married 29th September 2012
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