How do you hide your wheely bins?

[Fortunatepiggy]

We have 2 large green recycling bins and one black bin on our front garden. No access around back other than through house so need to stay out front . I've tried to hide them in a hedge behind shrubs but they still stick out like a sore thumb. Any ideas?

You can buy storage - Argos sell them

I've been eyeing up these: www.wheeliebinstoragedirect.co.uk/cat/triple-wheelie-bin-storage/
It doesn't necessarily hide them, it's obvious what is in there - but I do think wood in a garden looks far nicer than the wheelie bin plastic. Plus it can be painted to match fencing

I've surrounded my bins and bikestore with trellis and screening that way. They are still visible but it's softer

This is a subject v dear to my heart .
Intensive research reveals that any robust/attractive bin store is v expensive . And from the evidence on the streets the cheaper ones rapidly look awful .
The best soloutions seemm to be custom made or as Mayhew suggests ,trellis with plants grown over .The sturdy square stuff used as a screen seems to work best .
I have also seen solid walls - just a small divider - built ,looks like rendered and painted breeze block .just to screen them.

I've built an L-shaped trellis. It in no way hides the (4!) bins, but hopefully it will in a couple of years once it's got a bit of rose/clematis on it. There's a hideous privet hedge on the 3rd side. 4th side open for access, and that's only visible from the street, really.

Mines only been in 6 weeks and is now amazingly well covered with Passion flower and evergreen honeysuckle

Here's mine. We had it made by a local landscaper. I wanted it curved as it's such a small garden. The black bin fits in the curved part and the left door has a shelf on it so that both recycling bins fit in.

I love the sedum growing on the roof. Ignore the scooter...it's the only photo I have of the bin hide.

I will be watching this thread. Our wheelie bin is easy it's out the front next to the coal bunker and the car is parked on the drive in front of it. The problem we have are the recycling white bags that are now dirty looking from all the bad weather and the recycling end up being blown around as the velcro fastening is rubbish grr. Wish we had wheelie bins for our recycling

oh that's lovely Elisabeth .

I live in a house divided into 2 flats and we have 5 large wheely bins .They are SO ugly .

Elisabeth's bin store is a thing of great beauty. The nicest ones I've seen in gardens locally are wood (probably cedar) with a green roof, but without doors.

Out of interest, those with green roofs, and yours Elisabeth - I presume you need to pull the bin out every time you put a bag in? the green roof doesn't open to lift the bin lid up?

Bin store envy face ---> and I was so proud of my diy trellis solution! Perhaps I could bodge a roof on...

AmIaWeed. There are two doors on the front which close by means of magnets. The little holes are where I pull them open. They look a bit squint on the picture as the scooter is pressing against one.

I don't use a wheely bin, just a big black old fashioned type and then we have two recycling boxes.

I must admit I love it. We were having our driveway done and the landscaper designed it and made it for us at the same time. He was wonderful. www.ajwattslandscaping.com/index.htm

Elisabeth's storage is beautiful, but our budget doesn't stretch that far, and I really like mayhew's trellis too, especially the idea of growing climbing plants on it. Mayhew - where did you buy the trellis, and how did you secure it in an upright position? Does it need to be anchored into the ground with concrete, like a fence?

Elle
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/144748575499423670/?lp=true
any ideas here ?

or could you maybe use planters with the trellis attached to them and the plants growing in them ?

Here's photos of a bin hide that I really liked (before we got ours). I've passed it since and the greenery has almost covered it. I thought it was really nice and simple. Wouldn't be expensive either.

ooh elisabeth I really like that .Using the thicker uprights and bracket for a hanging basket is genius .

Wonder how it's fixed to the ground - concrete ?

That looks to me as if it's made of two tall fence posts with the trellis made of battens, in which case I guess the posts are concreted in. I can't see evidence of those fence post anchor thingies.

This is what I was trying inarticulately to describe. Having peered at it again, I think that might be a ready made panel between the fence posts.

Excitingly it looks sort of doable by an amateur like myself .
You can buy little bags of postcrete for cementing in ...I reckon use the fence anchors suggested by Maud and dig a hole into which they could be cemented .
I'm sure @pigletjohn would talk us through it .

And then all we'd need is it to stop raining long enough to complete the project .

We've got the wooden bin store on the first link - it's ok quality but we've added stay hinges to make it easier to use http://www.screwfix.com/p/hafele-gas-piston-stay-silver-grey-17-x-268mm/9267P?tc=SA4&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI28mKt4TK1QIV6rXtCh2DcwAREAQYAiABEgLWyDD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CK2247mEytUCFQ4x0wodUJIJUA
And painted it black which looks nicer next to the brick walls & greenery