Small side garden makeover

This is an on-going project which we haven't finished to date.

When we moved into this house the garden was a mess full of weeds and rubbish...

So far we have removed all the rubbish and the weeds...

Tidied the borders and painted the fencing...

The garden will be an on-going project for us as the ideas we have are quite expensive.

The plan is to have a decking area built at the end of the garden with a fence around and steps up to it, with an arch and gate. The area we wish to cover with decking is large so this project will be expensive.

We need to...

- replace some of the fencing panels down the left side.

- replace the huge, ugly oil container
(the large metal box that I have temporarily painted
with the fence paint in an effort to hide it!)

- do something useful and contructive with the kid's wooden wendy house - this is an object inherited from the previous owners which is used as a shed at the moment.

-remove the pampas grass plant - could be difficult as it is rooted very close to the fence.

- Move the fence panel and gate from the driveway to the garden - this will open out the space outside the back door and create a courtyard area.

As you can see, we have a few ideas but can't carry them out at the moment.

So watch this space...

I welcome any more ideas or comments for improving our garden.

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