Aibu to ask you to show me your Yards

[Fiveredbricks]

...to ask you to show me your yards?

Soon moving in to a new, to us - small edwardian terraced home, it has a small yard at the rear. Not tiny but not huge. Maybe 4m x 5.5m. Sun all day (struck gold there). After 12yrs in our flat with no garden I now have visions of a little cottagey yard with a table/chairs and pots, flowers and wall hanging planters and a chalk board on the wall with a sandpit planter for my little boy.

I need inspiration and pintrest has so little for Yards :(

Rather than look up, Yards, did you try Container Gardening?

I wanted ideas for pots, because I have rabbits.

I just went into, Images, on Google.

Yeah it's just more the inspiration for layouts and ideas too I'm after. Trying to stay excited about it all at the moment after some rubbish news so just looking for something cheery to keep me occupied.

It's better to put things in the corner ( ie.triangular raised beds or groups of pots ) imagine the clear space left is another square that has been rotated 90 degrees. This works better than a narrow bed or row of pots all the way round the edge because you have the room to plant in groups rather than rows, with larger plants in the corner at the back, them medium, then small at the front, iyswim.

Try looking up courtyard gardens on Pinterest. Quite a few inspirations there.
Haven't got a photo but I have a courtyard bit where I've got a pallet on the wall made into a herb garden. A bench full of pots and plenty of other pots scattered about.
I've covered my oil tank with a trellis enclosure and have plants growing up and around that.
My next task is to try and conceal the ugly wheelie bins.

Or you can have a circular clear/paved area withe the circumference of the circle almost touching the walls but again leaving the corners free for plants.

We hang small metal brightly colored buckets on our side walls and put flowerpots with seasonal plants in them, currently they have mini daffodils, really brightens up a wall

Some lovely pics here.
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/299770918923800431/

My sister has a small courtyard style garden. She has raised flower beds all the way round with railway sleepers and a small garden seat with an arbour above with climbing plants in one corner.

My other friend had tall walls in her courtyard and painted them white and attached plates she had bought on hols in Greece over the year. Had a small arbour again with climbing plants. And some pots, even had a lemon tree in a pot but she used to bring it indoors in the winter.

First was cottage type second was Mediterranean style, both every nice in their own way. Both on south coast in a very sunny area.

I can’t remember if it’s on amazon or Netflix, but one of them has a lovely series on ‘small’ gardens. There were a couple of yard style gardens on it if I remember correctly. One was tiny and they made use of every inch, even covering their roof with sedum (is that the word I mean?)

If you want something that’s a statement, lush and green, a castor oil plant is a must. They are evergreen, enjoy being in a pot, very easy to grow and are very hardy. Will give a little shade eventually, but they can be pruned with no difficulty.
Also plants that give all year round interest are useful and interesting, such as winter jasmine, which likes a wall or fence. Large planters are easier as small ones dry out too quickly and require more maintenance.

Have a look on Houzz for inspiration as well.

Ask me in a few months time still very winter right now

The layout will be dictated to you by the sun, the plants and what they're planted in.