The fenced in 'dog run' area next to the garage and just below the sunroom has been in need of a clean out and re-design. With the sunroom finished and looking directly out over this area, we thought it would be nice to re-purpose this area to be more bird-focused, with feeders, houses and a vertical planting wall.
This whole area was originally covered in landscape fabric and mulch. The fabric used was too cheap and disintegrated within a year and the mulch was pretty dead too. The perimeter planters were torn up when we put in the concrete sunroom foundation. The first job was to clean everything out and re-do the landscape fabric (view from the sunroom through the side windows that REALLY need to be cleaned):
The entire area was then covered with 4 inches of DG (decomposed granite) and compacted. No more weeds!
Bought a vertical planting wall kit from Amazon:
There are 36 pots in the kit with mounting hardware and a drip watering system. The back wall of the fence seemed like a good spot for these, so I pulled out some spare cedar fence boards we had lying around and stained them with the Spruce Madeira stain we used on the front cedar shingles. The finished wall installed:
The sunroom-side wall planting beds were destroyed during the concrete work and needed to be built back up again. The rocks came from a local Craigslist free listing; I scored enough to line all the beds along the perimeter:
Final planting and stepping stones between the garage door and gate in place:
