Beginner Gardening: Ideas for walkway / landscape around a deck , 0 by fatima526

fatima526 wrote:
Hi, I have been browsing for a while, but just joined and this is my first post. I am looking for ideas to landscape around the deck in the picture (ignore the cement rounds in the pic, and the little edging of white stone to the left of the steps, these are not installed, just sitting on the lawn, to give me some ideas). The challenges I am trying to solve:

1. path from driveway to steps
2. something solid to step on when you come down / start going up the steps (lawn there now)
3. path continues and goes up between the deck and fence, all the way up to the wooden gate (gate is the section furthest from the house) .
4. minimize / eliminate any remaining lawn between the deck and the fence, by creating planting areas on either side of the path.

5. there is a 6 foot gap on the far side of the deck, between the deck and the house, which is bare dirt and weeds, would like to not have to mow / weed wack that either.
6. what to do with the little area of lawn immediately to the right of the steps (steps come out 2 feet 9 in from the deck.) plantings?

I plan to do stepping stones separated by grass. Any other ideas for this space?

Thanks, Fatima


This message was edited Aug 12, 2014 10:00 PM