My garden gate is a gap in the wall that runs down the side of my house and opens straight onto the road. I live in a very hilly tourist town with few parking spaces and, as a result, there are often cars parked directly in front of my gate meaning I can’t get out of my house. I have to climb over my garden wall and go through my neighbours garden to get out instead. Neighbours are perfectly happy for me to do this but it’s a PITA and not easy when I have shopping or children with me.
What other neighbours do is have large, stone pots either side of their gate with plants in to prevent people parking directly outside their gate opening. I can’t do this though as my gate opening is on a really steep bit so pots would just tip over. Can anyone think of something I could use to put the pots on to make them secure? Wood wouldn’t work as they’d need to be really sold pots to stop cars just bashing them over. One neighbour now uses big metal pots as his stone ones kept getting smashed. Please do not park here signs are no good as it’s usually day trippers so they’re not dissuaded.