Landscaping ideas

[Quickstatus]

New purchase.
What should I do about this bit of the land
Looking from rear to front of block.
This is eastern side of the property.

It’s 3.2m wide

I don’t think I’ll do a driveway because the garage is on the western side. And the front of the property on the other side of the dodgy timber side gate is landscaping and also a buried pumped septic system - likely also important septic pipes from house might come through this side. The furthest window before the downpipe is a bathroom

There is no access to this part from the house except from the front yard or back yard.

Dog not included - previous owner used it as a dog run

The metal gate at foreground will go or be repurposed
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[Scarlett]

Which part of Australia?
Do you want to see over that beige/white/off white/ivory/bone fence?

Generically: Vege patches? Fruit trees? Ornamental/flowering shrubs?

Or out of the box: that looks nearly flat enough for a single cricket net!

 

[cove]

Looks like a potential cricket pitch where if you hit a ball and it breaks a window that would be 6 and out. We had that system when we were growing up as children before residential blocks were reduced in size. That was about 60 years ago.
Of course you could grow vegetables there but most of us don’t do that now as we feel time poor.
@get me outta here might have ideas.

 

[Quickstatus]

grow vegetables

The occupants believe food comes from Coles

 

[RooFlyer]

Assume it will be a rental ? With no access from the house, I'd fill it with ferns and some low shelter plants - low maintenance and won't grow high.

 

[Quickstatus]

trees

I suspect there are buried pipes/drains

low maintenance

Yes, I should have put that in original post

 

[SYD]

I suspect there are buried pipes/drains


Yes, I should have put that in original post

Did you get a drainage diagram?

 

[Quickstatus]

drainage

I’ve asked the REA to ask the vendor

 

[cjd600]

I’m with @cove - cricket pitch!

 

[SYD]

I’m with @cove - cricket pitch!

Lap pool?

 

[JohnK]

Or out of the box: that looks nearly flat enough for a single cricket net!

Or golf practice nets?

@Quickstatus I'll have to start landscaping the flower garden and vegetable gardens in Thailand from next year. I'm going to try and do this myself instead of trying to manage incompetent workers. Interested to see what you end up doing.

 

[tgh]

For a rental simplicity is trumps; get a local landscaper to lay pavers on aggregate.
Cheap to build easy to maintain and if there needs work on subsurface pipes anytime, easy to pull up and relay
Tenants came and go with their pots , pets and whatever and you have almost no maintenance

 

[Quickstatus]

pavers

Yes I think that will be the best option