In message , Jackie
Brown writes

Might I also recommend tonnes of rubble 2 inches below the soil from where
the builders could not be bothered to dispose of the waste properly, a
Morrison's carrier bag that mysteriously keeps reappearing due to next doors
rubbish bags splitting open and an empty tin of lager propped against your
wall during World cup season courtesy of the locals having footy parties.


If it's a country garden there ought to be a semi-natural area with wild
daffodils, wood anemones, primroses or cowslips etc etc naturalised in
grass under orchard trees. You can't cut the grass until the leaves
die down in July or August so other wild flowers tend to move in -
eyebright, mallow, milkmaids' smocks, cuckoo pint, patches of stinging
nettles (essential for your butterflies) and the odd bramble.

For true authenticity, you can't beat the interesting shapes and warm
rust tones of a cast-iron bed end, a derelict bicycle, a few corrugated
iron sheets and some road cones.

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Sue ];(