Garden Design

[LondonGirl83]

Following our ground floor extension we have to landscape our garden which as those of you who have been through this know, is now completely destroyed! The garden has to be two tiered with a retaining wall between the two levels.

We are laying this sandstone paving on the lower level:

www.londonstone.co.uk/exterior-stone-paving/tumbled-paving/tumbled-mint-sandstone-paving/

and my dilema is what to build the retaining wall from. We could use railway sleepers or reclaimed london stock brick. I'm not sure if yellow London stock bricks would go with the paving though.

Any thoughts?

You could go for inexpensive breeze, block laid flat rather than upright, and then clad with outdoor grade T&G afterwards - you still need to put drainage tubes in - but if you put them in oversized - you can then trim them after the cladding is on so they stick out about an inch ! ( You will need a backfill area or pea gravel or similar too ) Will look lovely and you can paint whichever colour you like !

What is T&G?

It's tongue and groove wood panelling - it's like the side of an upmarket shed ! Ie not rough - paintable and laid horizontally ! Looks lovely !!

New rather than reclaimed sleepers, fixed together with timberlock screws would look great and have good structural integrity

Render and paint some breeze blocks?