I live in the UK on a “new build” estate (built about 20 years ago). The houses are crammed in, so most of the front gardens on my road have been paved over for extra parking.
I also needed an extra parking space but I wanted to preserve the greenery. I dug in some parking grids, filled them with soil and stones, and I’ve been trying to turn the whole thing into a lush clover lawn. As you can see, the clover has taken quite well on the parking grids, but the rest of it is looking scrubby.
I’m currently building some large raised beds to sit by the house under the window, as a wildflower area. I’d like to do something creative with the rest of the garden. It needs to be limited in height so that I can get in and out my car easily when it’s parked on it. I’ve considered just digging up the grass, plonking some stepping stones down for easy passage to and from the car doors, and then planting some low lying, ground covering plants. Maybe camomile or creeping thyme? I thought about filling the area between the tracks with alpines, but I’m not sure if they’d last long with a car sitting over them. I’m thinking about building a triangular shaped shallow raised bed at the end of the garden, but it think it might look a bit weird.
I’ve marked the property boundary with a red line. My neighbour has a very small strip of grass and she’s not bothered about plants creeping over to her side.
Does anyone have any ideas to help me turn this into a magical no-lawn no-parking space!?
by flowerfaerie08