I hope these type of requests are allowed here. Otherwise just let me know and I’ll remove my post.
I’m soon moving to a new house and it has a little garden area of 5.5 m wide and 4.4m long. And surrounded by a tall hedge (that I don’t want to remove)
At the moment, as you can see on the pictures below, it’s all tiled. I initially intended to remove about a third of the tiles and make a mos, clover and wild flowers lawn that my cat and dog can use now and then. Then maybe make some tall planteres for wild herbs from stacking the removed bricks up in a square and adding some wood planks.
But now i got the idea of asking you guys if you have any better ideas for how to use this space for a little sanctuary for me and my pets. I’d love to see some inspiration, sketches or ideas from you on how i get more use out of this space. Maybe removing the tiles is not the best idea?
I live in Denmark so the climate is a bit mixed. I’m not a big gardener type of person so something simple that mostly takes care of itself is ideal. Lavenders, sage, oniongrass types of herbs and Viola tricolor and wild flowers for easy and pretty colors.
Some vertical planters might go a long way in maximizing space. I would plant a lot of vines (peas, cukes, squash, beans, etc) on trellises all within that border hedge. Maybe one side could be an herb/greens wall with tiered planters
There’s a pretty lively community around balcony gardening. I’d maybe look to them for inspiration on maximizing the space
Greta thank you for mentioning that community. I do actually also get a roof trace of similar size (bit smaller) on the house that I still don’t know what to do with so I’ll go ask there probably