planting for edges of 60' fenced pathway ?

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I live in an an upper flat and the access to our garden is via a narrow path .

There is a 6'north facing fence on one side and a lower 4' south fencing fence on the other .

Ground elder is encroaching from the 4'fence side ( people who live downstairs are lovely but not gardeners ) and everything ( ivy ,brambles ,mares tail etc on the other ( used to be garden but is now overgrown and has PP for a road and housing ) .

At the moment there is a mixture of grass and weeds at the edges and compacted soil down the middle .

I mainly ignore it but was thinking yesterday as I was filling bags with daisies from my "lawn " that I could transplant them down the north facing side ,backs on to land which is wild and will be dug up .

Was thinking they might smother other weeds ,look pretty and get rid of the straggly grass down the edges which I can only cut with shears .
Would that work /be completely insane ?

Any advice on what to do on other side ?

Posting here makes me think what hard work my garden is .

I have sycamores on neighbouring ground that smother everything with leaves and seedlings and huge ivy growing over old dead leylandi trunks on one side and long privet hedge on the other .

I'm forever up a ladder ,balancing on step up benches with a lopper/shears/secateurs in hand trying to get some light in to my patch .

But it is private and full of birds and no one can see my experiments failing !

I’d remove as much of the weeds and grass as you can, put some fresh compost down, don’t be too worried about using expensive stuff, use a couple of cheap growbags.
Then I’d look at ground covering plants that aren’t too fussy, such as euphorbia, vinca, lamium and loostrife. You will get some weeds returning, but as the other plants take over there should be less.
Ask your neighbours what overruns their gardens, there’s always something and they might give you roots.

Ah ,thank you JT05 ,that sounds like a plan .It's so helpful to have clear advice .

I've got lamium and forget me knots ,so can easily transplant them .

Just need to sort out priorities - it's still nice and damp for weeding but I think I need to crack on with my grass renovation project before I do my pathway .