Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Hide my ugly shed - ideas please ?!? 21Mar 24, 2011 9:38 am For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Hide my ugly shed - ideas please ?!? 25Mar 25, 2011 10:26 am https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43937&start=0 Bought a block in Golden Grove - Jan 2011 Finally finished our design, Mar 2012, *yay* Signed with ADH council consent June 12 Re: Hide my ugly shed - ideas please ?!? 27Apr 05, 2011 12:13 pm For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Hide my ugly shed - ideas please ?!? 29Apr 06, 2011 8:55 am For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Hide my ugly shed - ideas please ?!? 30Apr 06, 2011 6:46 pm Fu Manchu A screen is the go. Rather than a slatted screen why not use that space for a productive plant like a grape vine, or native climber like Kennedia nigricans or the Coral Vine. Birds love it! That gravel area would be excellent for a few raised cory beds and grow some of your very own food In fact you'd grow enough food in that space to put a smile on your shopping bill. The black soft mulch would do wonders being covered over by sustaining and waterwise tree lopper prunings. Far tidier too Keep those grasses surrounded by the pebbles sustained with liquid composts. Ideally avoiding pebbles is a better go for long term low maintenance in exchange for recycled tree prunings. The fuel tank for the garden A passionfruit over the whole shed would also cool the shed and reduce the thermal footprint of the garden. Nice flowers and fruit Espaliering a few fruit trees along the front of the gravel area would also make for a very interesting garden that is both visually explored and physically. Behind them you could have the veggies and herbs. Break the front espaliers up with sections of slatted fence. Maybe 2 metres of espalier, then 2m of slatted fence, 2m of espalier then slatted fence. Maybe off set two sides so access is wide and open, yet from the house you won't see the tank or shed.Creates good interest in winter when they loose leaves. (which would go straight onto the veggie bed as mulch) Looks fantastic come spring when flowering starts begs to be explored. Hides the shed, makes a productive space behind, you would still be able to keep an eye on the kids, they get to grow their own food and eat it too:) Wow, thanks for the ideas Fu ! I think perhaps you overestimate my gardening prowess though Espaliers, isn't that French for pruning I do like the idea of having different depths in the garden, almost so you can't really tell where the garden ends. Have lots to think about now Re: Hide my ugly shed - ideas please ?!? 31Apr 09, 2011 10:59 pm Yes but we also have one of the best topiary specialists in the world here at Homeone. Topiarius and he loves to help. Sometimes he is over east so good to know in case you maybe lucky enough to get some personal help Espalier is easy with his help at most it will have a short lintel which could be moved up just below the ceiling or even above. Above means you need to patch the cornice and might need to deal with… 2 61478 Is it possible to render an old corrugated iron shed.I have heard that it can be done if it is covered with chicken wire first.Not sure of the ratio of the render mix and… 0 4959 Thanks. Yeh ideally that would have been good, but have progressed too far now. Hoping some well placed internal walls fixed up into the battens will provide some… 2 5514 |