tiny back yard
By Scotsgran
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18 Oct, 2013
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My daughter bought an upstairs flat as her first home. The tiny back yard was transformed by adding plants.
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Thank you TT. It was done on a very small budget. The pots on the wall contain roses to act as a deterrant to the thieves who plagued the streets around the area. They had a big white van which allowed them easy access over the 8ft high walls and they took what they fancied. The roses were never very great but they were very thorny.
18 Oct, 2013
Thorny ... :o)))
... right plant for right place ;o)
18 Oct, 2013
Great job!
18 Oct, 2013
I like how the walls are softened by the use of greenery too.
18 Oct, 2013
We had the wall on the right hand side built to separate her space from that of the downstairs flat. They were happy to have it replaced at our expense. Their dog who was a lovely old soul was using the area as a toilet which did not accord with our daughters lifestyle. You can see that the concrete floor requires work but it did allow plant roots to grow down in to the soil beneath the pots we were using. The area was only about 10 ' wide by 25' long and the stair took up quite a lot of space. The people in the upstairs flat next door had roofed over their space to take a car and put in a spiral staircase leading up to their roof top garden. By the time she sold it the mesh on the staircase was covered in honeysuckle.
18 Oct, 2013
Great Job That's Looks Very Nice.
23 Oct, 2013
It looks lovely. Great use of space.
23 Oct, 2013
Thank you Lynda and Mel. It was done on a reasonably small budget and it did make a huge difference to how she felt about how she wanted to live. She had a BBQ and a table and 6 chairs which got tucked in to the shed built in to the space below the stairs.
24 Oct, 2013
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Nicely done .. added to GoYpedia :o)
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