Garden design - back to black?

I_have_spoken

Ms Dimmock helped too!

Davesnave

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Ms Dimmock helped too!

True, but every time she joined-in, things tended to go paridae-up!;)

Fuzion

Lol, behold the mighty Dimmocks!

Fuzion

Thanks. Think I'll go down Fay's route and try a grey, possibly tinged with green. At least it'll be an undercoat for the black, stopping bits of blue coming through.

Re the neighbour's fence, yes of course I would strike up arelationship with them, and then ask permission, and if they're concerned, install a secondary fence on my side. Those horizontal slats would be ideal.

Although I don't have a problem with the natural wood of their fence.

bouicca21

If you are happy with the natural wood, I wouldn't bother putting up a second fence - I think it looks rather attractive as is.

Fuzion

Yes, it's quite nice.

Anyway, I've had a rethink along more conventional/traditional lines, with less change to the general structure of the garden. I'm thinking I can maybe create some planting holes for climbers in the concrete path, and maybe re-pave with sandstone slabs in time. For the time being I could tidy up the holes by creating timber 'planters'.

Davesnave

Looks less Chelsea and more human-friendly to me.

Fuzion

Human friendly is always a bonus :beer:

Fay

That looks good and will be less work too. Plus it will give you chance to get to know your garden. I did like my grey fence and used Cuprinol ducks back in their grey. One way you look at it it's almost got an RAF blue to it which means it's not too dull and it does give great protection.
We installed a whole new fence last year and painted our side, no need for permission from the neighbours as it's our f nice and we paid for it. Our neighbours have th good side of the feather edged fence and they said none of our black dripped or bled through as the ducks back is a thick gel like consistency. They have painted theirs a rather red wood colour and managed to flick quite a bit of it over onto my newly build arbour bench which we aren't painting...so it now has som ginger freckles!