Our front garden is a bit of a disaster zone. We’re thinking of moving in 18 months’ time and need to tart up the garden to increase ‘kerb appeal’.
The house is a late Victorian semi-detached - the garden’s about 4-5 metres from the house to front wall
The good bits: we have a lovely (and intact) black and white tile Victorian path to the front door with lavender bushes to the side and a mature passion fruit creeper around the porch. The front door has the original stained glass.
The bad: the rest of it ... horrible, cheap terracotta tiles underneath the front bay window and on the path from the back garden door; the bulk of the garden itself is gravel; the front wall is the original but it’s the type of ‘builders’ rubble’ wall, rendered and painted white with red brick gate posts (not original) and cheap cast iron gates. There’s a vent just behind the wall which according to the water company is no longer connected to anything so we can cut it down/cap it but nothing grows in the soil immediately around it. We got fed up of the sickly privet which was behind the wall so got rid of that a while ago and haven’t worked out how to replace it.
We don’t want to spend a fortune on it so would love some inspiration please (gardening is so not my thing ,,)
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Quick (cheap) front garden fixes
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noitsnotteatimeyet · 09/11/2017 09:19
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