So, our now very untidy L shaped courtyard garden.
There is a patio in front of the living room and kitchen back doors. A big wedge of gravel in front of that, down a step, with trellising around two walls covered in very overgrown jasmine. Then the short part of the L has beautiful but overgrown honeysuckle and is viewable at all times from our kitchen floor to ceiling windows.
DH wants grass where the gravel is, but I’m not sure. Plus I hate mowing. I think we need to keep the trellis in some form as the walls of the garden are the walls of neighbouring houses and I’m not 100% sure from the plans where our boundary ends, so a trellis or fence a few inches from the house walls seems safer. We know we need a new patio where the existing one is.
What would people do with this space? We need places to sit (I’m thinking a sofa under some well trimmed jasmine) and eat but not for playing. Planters and pots are fine for some colour but we’re not the keenest gardeners so nothing that needs much work. If you could do anything, what would you do?