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The feature you'd most like to hide?

Penny_ForthemPenny_Forthem Posts: 455
in Garden design
Ummmm, I can think of a few.
But this one has been a feature for 2 years.
Apart from the bird poo on the window!
I've asked if I can grow trailing plants in it.
No!

It might be useful.
Beautiful North Wales - hiraeth
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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Is it a cement or a compost mixer Penny_Forthem?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    At least your cement mixer is a subtle yellow colour, ours is bright red.
    I would like to hide all our compost bins and all the paraphernalia that goes with it.
    The piles of grass waiting to go in,  the piles of hard prunings, large cardboard boxes waiting for a soaking. 
    We had a thread on here a while back about our untidy/shabby areas,  I think we decided @WonkyWomble was the winner 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Plant some nasturtiums in it.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Maybe you need to train the birds to sh*t just at the right spot to hide it @Penny_Forthem :D
    Any 'wee chancers' in the area that could be persuaded to 'borrow' it....

    Could you have some containers at that end of the deck? A mix of evergreens and annuals etc. so that it's well disguised. A decent Phormium and various other flowering, seasonal plants would work.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Undoubtedly this for me, too random a place to put pots on, and need fairly regular access so I just pretend I can’t see it! 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Maybe  a statue to hide the cover that you could easily lift off. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Lyn said:
    Maybe  a statue to hide the cover that you could easily lift off. 
    Can’t really see where it is in relation into the lawn from the picture but a statue would look very odd there (I had a pot on it but it always looked like I’d left the pot there to move later 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Our neighbour's new trampoline.  It's bright orange, 10 feet across and right beside our fence.  I could add our neighbour's son who is, by admission of his father and grandfather, a little swine most of the time.  Does his nut if he doesn't get his own way, and has hissy fits whenever his aunt comes over with her son who is a couple of years younger.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I still don’t like the black paint of my main arch. 
  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    @KT53 they always end up next to a fence don’t they! I was very pleased when the neighbours behind got a trampoline and put it by the fence on the neighbour next to me’s side!
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