Garden with no boundary-how to define

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I live in a rented property where half the front lawn belongs to my house and half to the neighbour. There is no physical division but I'd like there to be one on some kind. However it needs to be something that will not damage the lawn and is temporary ie can be easily removed. It's about a 20ft invisible line from the house to the pavement.
I'm thinking solar lights and maybe some small planters on those feet you can get. I'd love a fence but the landlord won't allow it and it would look odd with the rest of the street as there's no fences. All the front gardens are different in how they are shared and are mainly just drives. Ours is the only one with a decent lawn.

Any ideas for something relatively low cost but attractive that won't look odd?

Garden gnomes. I'd say at least sixty of them.

I realise I'm not really matching your last sentence there...

Shrubs in pots? Your solar lights is probably the cheapest and will look fine.

Why not use some log roles, easy to put in, no damage to lawn, will separate the two gardens nicely.

You can get low wrought iron type fencing that you can just spike into the grass.

I would just leave it though.

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The children love painting rocks so maybe I'll get some decent sized ones and make a thin trail across the lawn interspersed with solar lights. It needs to be a border but not a border so it divides but the neighbour can't complain. I'd put whatever I decide to get slightly further into my side. It could look really pretty as the children are very artistic and have done some great rocks for my planters. I'd like a brick wall to completely block the neighbour but that's a whole other thread.

Why can’t you leave it as it is and just use your side?
These laws look really nice and spacious. Making a boundary will look awful.

Whoops75 how do you know what it looks like and if it would look awful? A fence wouldn't look right but pebbles and lights would look nice.

If the lawn really is continuous from one side to the other, a row of rocks - however prettily they are painted - will make cutting the grass a bit difficult.
And honestly, no matter how artistic your children are, a row of painted rocks is going to look pretty dreadful

There are lots of estates where the front gardens are open plan like this so no doubt Whoops has seen one before. I don’t see the need to separate the grass like this either.

If you use stones, you will have to pick up 20ft of stones every time you or your neighbour want to cut the grass. Of have them at least four ft on to your side so you only have to move them when you cut the grass. Next door still might not be happy though as they will,have to check for stones every time they mow. Unless they are rock sized.

Also, you will have to put them back in a slightly different place every week or the grass will die underneath.

May I ask on behalf of everyone why do you want to?

I suspect there's a huge back story here...

What about a little short border fence that just sticks into the ground like this

There is a backstory but I'm not going into it. I just need to mark the boundary in some way that is not too intrusive.

It's quite obvious that you are having problems with your neighbour, but I honestly can't see how a row of fairy lights and stones is going to improve matters. It's more likely to annoy the neighbour

A small fence that you just spike in is your best bet.

Otherwise you’ll need to move the stones every time you now the lawn, and if You Miss any of them then they’ll damage the lawn mower.

Ive seen lots of shared front gardens divided in that way, it looks nice and neat.

They are complaining the kids wander over to their side but its difficult for them to know at age 4 where our bit ends if there's nothing there

How about a string of solar lights on sticks, a couple of feet high, so you can still mow underneath, but the lights make a kind of barrier it's hard to cross by accident, and you just stick the sticks/poles into the grass?
Cheerful neighbour you have...

I'd pop a few solar lights along the middle. Don't bother with the stones.

String fence? Put some cool looking sticks in the ground and weave a fence using colourful yarn/fairy lights/hemp twine etc/reeds etc. But if you neighbours are being annoying I would be strongly tempted to use the gnome idea. But a whole bunch of angry looking gnomes and line them up to face your neighbours side.

I like that ideas (and the angry gnomes ). Thanks

One just spotted this in Morrisons. There are eight pieces in a pack for £4

I'm on the app so the photo might not show if you aren't on the app too.

I've found 2 of those shepherd hook things lurking in the shed and I've seen some dangly globe lights that I can hang from each of them and then will put solar lights along the invisible line. That should be sufficient to keep the small one on our side 🙄 I'll still get the artistic ones to decorate some large ish stones and keep them well on my side. They got acrylic pens for Christmas and love making nice stones for the plant pots. They will be kept a safe distance from the other side so no danger with the mower.
I'm on a big gardening mission now the sun is shining so am loving ideas for how to make it less dull than just lawn and I'm a sucker for pretty lights. Thank you!