i'll pop back later & im expecting some wild & wonderful ideas

as i know youre all wild & wonderful

On a nice dry day take an amble to your local allotments, chat some of them up, saying how much you like their *insert name of plant/vegetable* and wonder if they have any seeds left over.  

Are you thinking about grass... of the lawn variety of course. Do you already have a lawnmower? 

I take it the 20 feet runs the width of the house and the 8 feet is from the bavk door to the fence/hdge/wall/border uf the property? How much decking have we got to play with?

concrete, green paint.   Job's a good 'un.  

First year I did my garden I was really really skint.... 

So...   I dug out some flower beds, and bought 7 packets of Sunflower seeds and some garden canes.   I bought big single headed sunflowers, dwarf sunflowers, red sunflowers, multi headed sunflowers, and white sunflowers...  

I planted all the seeds..    watered regularly...    went on midnight excursions to collect & relocate all the slugs & snails trying to eat my sunflower seedlings (over the fence )....    staked them to canes as (the bigger ones) grew taller...  

mid summer my garden looked amazing!!   Twas like teletubby land!     I had 150 sunflowers 

So anyway, you have a bit of decking at one end of the 20 feet with a bit of patio furniture on it. You would want to till the soil first then cover it with a weed sppressing mebrane.

As the width is only 8 feet, grass might be a bit impractical unless you want to go for artificial stuff, but that's a bit expensive I believe. So maybe some 3 X 2 flagstones, say 3 in length and 2 wide running length ways along the 20 feet from the edge of the decking with flower beds on each side running also from the decking for the length of the flagged area. There would only be a (relatively) small area left at the other end of the 20 feet from the decking and youcould install a small water feature there. A self contained unit shouldn't need a lot of maintainance.

What do you think? Of course it won't be as cheap as just grassing the whole area, but should look a lot more pretty.

Aaand.....whatever you end up doing, we want before, during and after photos.

Instead of the water feature you could flag the end area and have small flowering shrubs and/or miniature fruit trees in tubs.

its outside of back gate

it runs in front of garage, gate & fencing thats the long bit

then it gives about 8ft width before it hits the gullyway thing

the decking should cover half of it

so yeah, a good idea would to put that sheeting plastic stuff down after ive cut weeds & throw stones on that bit

some good ideas

thanks

now im off to watch panorama & probably throw things at the telly

Keep it urban and minimalist, ok?

I have a small corner I am thinking of decking out similar to this .

From the steps upwards.

I'm shit at gardens, but I like summers idea.  

I have a small corner I am thinking of decking out similar to this .

From the steps upwards.

 

 

Well this may be better than my "urban/minimalist" approach.

Lights are excellent - must admit - they are great for ambiance.

My idea was more erm ... that 'just out of bed look' y'know

Gnomes scare me - so do gonks

A troll!!!!!! I liked those!

Yeah! That's a troll. I had loads of them! 

This was the basic design of a gonk. They came in many guises which is probably what scared Saint. 

I would have suggested just pinching one of these... But it's not very PC is it Could disguise it by putting fairy lights on it too

That reminds me of the IKEA advert it's brilliant

Myth has it they come alive at night!!

Spook me out those do

Come in families - yikes, no no no !!!!

Ya big feartie!

Terrifying !!!

Sorry Moonie, I went all Jockenese again. It means scaredy cat.

  I thought it meant something along those lines but you never know with a  "Yogi word"  

See to me, that's a troll.

This is what I think of when I think of Gonks - which, of course, I do all the time

I love how threads go totally randomly off topic

Now this is what I see when you say gonk

An early Beatles gonk Soozy?