ideas to fix a shovel prune
 

Many sympathies extended to you! I once worked on a country estate as the
replacement for the guy who rotivated the asparagus!
A long box planted with inset bench(s) and shrubs sound nice. Some climbers
on the fence would form a backdrop that can resist the need of visitors to
peer over the bench and see what is below. Can the drain be boxed over?
Neil
www.conceptgardens.com

"Snooze" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Due to a miscommunication with our gardener, mostly the result of a
language
barrier, we've now got about 50ft of bare dirt. He removed a hedge we had
there, because he interpreted it as an instruction, rather then as a brain
storm, since it was discussed in the same conversation as having him
remove
a diseased cherry tree.

http://www.boredom.org/~manek/garden/back_lawn/

In the first picture, DSC00157.JPG, I've pointed out some problems. First
is
the soggy poor drainage, which I'll fix this summer by adding lots of OM
and
gypsum. Second is the storm drainage ditch that runs the length of the
street behind everyone's home. Simply put, it's ugly, and needs to be
hidden
behind something.

Ideas we've come up with a
1. Extend the lawn
a) Creating retaining wall with landscape blocks and adding a
bench style top
b) Creating a planter box with a landscape blocks
c) Creating a mow strip with bricks and exposed aggregate
concrete, and putting small bushes in the 2ft space between the mow strip
and the ditch.
2. Putting some bushes there, preferably some flowering kinds of bushes
that can be shaped into a hedge.

The con with option 1a is there will be just a lawn, nothing else to
please
the eye with color.

Does anyone else have any better sounding ideas?

Thanks
Sameer

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