My little postage stamp lawn (11×10) is gone! I pulled up all the sod and made a little dead sod pile because my yard debris bin is very full.
My initial thoughts are large square pavers for a small seating area. But I’m also considering planting a bunch of native plants instead.
I’d love some ideas and advice! Located in the PNW; zone 9a.
by TheMiddleE
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Oh please please please do the native plants!! That would be such a nice place for an arrangement of flowers! Depending on what state you’re in you can check what is native to your area with the states native plant society
Definitely some native flowers and host plants, will be very nice looking and help pollinators a ton
check out your native sedges, they’re super low maintenance and won’t take over a space. you could do a few sedges, a nice perennial shrub, and some wildflowers and still have space for a bench 🙂
Ferns, hostas, Solomon’s seal, salal berry, kinnikinnick, bleeding heart, wild ginger.
Pressure wash
Add native plants
Some subtle lighting
I’d do a small long flowering fragrant patio tree with four seasons of interest. Think of patio trees as small trees or large shrubs Cv’s. I’d choose an evergreen native tree. Again, a large shrub limbed up into a standard or multi trunk I do like some of the smaller Rutgers Cornus hybrids, Cercis, Hammemalis, fragrant evergreen Viburnums, Osmanthus, Amelanchier,…these are mostly not evergreens.
https://horticulture.co.uk/shrubs-with-red-leaves/
Underneath would be a rock feature, ornamental grasses, patch of native bulbs, ground cover, and perennials. Maybe all or one or two choices to keep it simple. Nothing should be decided upon until some basic questions are answered: $, occupants, who is doing the maintenance, level of maintenance desired, soil quality, environmental conditions,…