Our backyard is less than 600 square feet total, and when you are dealing with such a compact area, your choice of plants, and how you plant them becomes really important.
Last summer this is what the entire backyard space looked like:
The previous owner had an obsession with hybrid roses.
This year I pulled out quite a few overgrown leggy plants and replaced them with new ones.
I extended out the raised bed and stone retaining wall and replaced the huge lacecap hydrangea with a smaller mophead variety. In order to give us a little more privacy, I added a Crepe Myrtle and an
Oleander (which I am training to grow into a "tree" instead of shrub)
along the fence line between us and the neighbor.
There was one part of the yard that I had trouble dealing with.
There was one part of the yard that I had trouble dealing with.
Under our citrus tree, the manifold for our irrigation system makes it impossible to plant anything in the ground.
This is where the Pennington Vertical Gardening System is going to save me. Because you plant on a vertical surface, it allows me to have a garden in a tiny, otherwise un-plantable space. And even though I think my yard is tiny, there are people in apartments and condominums with even less outdoor space than me! The Pennington System would be perfect for them.
UPDATED: HERE IS THE POST WHERE I ACTUALLY INSTALLED THIS GARDEN SYSTEM!
