Creating a boundary (front garden)
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Our front garden consists of a driveway widened for 2 cars side-by-side, a small patch of grass, and a 'service strip' housing some water meter covers and a lamp post. I am considering using the lawn area for parking - either block paved to match, or gravelled. The issue is that we have a couple of neighbours who park on the road adjacent to the garden (nose first) and the lawn is so small that parking in that area would mean the nose of the third car would be up to the boundary with our neighbours lawn.
Therefore I am looking to have some kind of separating structure or plants to surround the garden and enclose the third car. My concern is that I don't want it to feel too 'boxed in' but feel we need something there to separate the cars from the garden next door, and the parked cars (would start to look like a car park).
Rather than a fence or wall, it would probably be better with something planted. The estate where we live is very open plan with nothing in the way of hedges/walls etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to achieve this? Which plants would be easiest to manage yet provide some screening from the neighbour's garden and the road?
Cheers.
Therefore I am looking to have some kind of separating structure or plants to surround the garden and enclose the third car. My concern is that I don't want it to feel too 'boxed in' but feel we need something there to separate the cars from the garden next door, and the parked cars (would start to look like a car park).
Rather than a fence or wall, it would probably be better with something planted. The estate where we live is very open plan with nothing in the way of hedges/walls etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to achieve this? Which plants would be easiest to manage yet provide some screening from the neighbour's garden and the road?
Cheers.
stolt said:
we have just planted up some laurel and its evergreen, can keep it trimmed, it might get a bit big though if you dont mind keeping on it, its well compacted etc.
or maybe box hedges, slow growing, trimmed nicely but it might take a while to ge tit to screening height.
This, will just need a couple of hours worth of timing every year.or maybe box hedges, slow growing, trimmed nicely but it might take a while to ge tit to screening height.
"If there is a condition attached to the planning permission for your property which restricts the planting of hedges or trees (for example, on an open-plan estate or where a sight line might be blocked), you will need permission from the council to relax or remove the condition before you plant." Or the benefitor(s) of any other restrictive covenant.
Thanks - laurel looks like a good option, but I will check the planning (friend was head of a local planning department so I am sure he can point me in the right direction). I wouldn't want it to get more than 2-3' high at the very most; it's just a way of marking the boundaries and screening the cars.
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