"Raymond RUSSELL" wrote in message
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Hello all

We're planning a corner of the garden as an area for our summer
meals
outdoors.
It's against the north side of a barn, partly but not all in shade,
so that we (and visitors) can choose when to keep in / out of the
sun.
It's about 5x3 square meters, with probably some sort of arching to
grow
over with vine or creeper.
I plan to flank the area on two or three sides with some sort of
scented
rockery,
i.e. chamaemelum nobile , mentha pulegium repens, etc.

I am against concreting and would prefer to leave the ground
underfoot as
natural as possible.
My wife would like to put down about 15 square meters of wood
(is it called "decking" ?) - planks of wood with gaps; but
I reckon weeds and grass seed will get into the gaps between the
planks and
run riot.

Well, that would help to hide that awful decking and make the area
look a little more natural. {:-))

Franz