Ever since moving to this house I have been looking at what I can do with the yard area next to the house. It is a very decent sized space that has so far been neglected and left bare of plant life. The kitchen sink looks directly out on to it and to be honest it has looked terrible, its not what you want to see whilst scrubbing the Sunday roast pans. The flaked paint hanging off the concrete block wall and what is left of the white paint had turned to a manky magnolia colour.
I have had in my mind for a while the idea of a shade garden in this dark and cool corner of the yard. I have a real affinity for those plants that can flourish in these conditions, Ferns, Hosta etc. What I really want to create is a forest/jungle type area right outside my back door to bring some life and greenery to it. So yesterday stage one of the shade garden was completed, the painting of the horrid wall. This is what it was looking like.
Its not a very appealing scene is it, after a couple of ours of painting and tiding up it looks so much better.
The white walls really brighten it up on a dull day like to day, even this little lick of paint has made it a slightly better place to be. Next on the agenda is to clean up the paving which has a terrible build up of grime, with this done I can start to think about building a planter that runs the length of the wall. The trellising I have decided to leave up as I have seen a climbing fern on Ebay that would be perfect for it. Also the door I want to paint to, but not white maybe a heritage green of some kind. Plant wise lots of ferns large and small, astilibe, hosta, wild garlic and any other shade loving plant I can get my hands on .It is still early days on this project but I feel happy with what we have done and how it will be when we finish.
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