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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 11 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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If I had a small concreted yard for a back garden I'd probably grow a few small fruit trees in large pots, some English ivy up the walls, some strawberries and alpine strawberries in window boxes, gooseberries in a square pot in a corner somewhere and a few flowers somewhere.
I'd probably plant something for privacy if it were lacking such as some fast growing willow around the perimeter.
I wouldn't bother with veg if it is a very small space, just some nice fresh fruit from the trees and bushes, a nice bit of greenery and colour in the willow, flowers and ivy as well as privacy from the willow and aesthetic appeal from the ivy.
I'd get a bird table and leave nuts for pigeons, magpies and corvidae as I like larger birds, but put bird seed hanging up in the trees somewhere for the small species. (I like larger birds, magpies are so daft how they hop around like rabbits , but they're very intelligent like parrots).
A Budleia would be good to for insects and especially butterflies which in turn would attract the swifts in summer. Often they are already present in concreted yards anyway. |
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