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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Concealment

Thanks to Chris and Graham for telling me the name of my mystery plant – bless you both for that! It’s gone on the list …

And today a pongy problem – what do you do with your bins?

It was all right in the old days, either you had a garden with a pig and a privy in it (both of which were pretty noisome) or you had several hundred acres with a deer park and a folly (with or without resident hermit) – in the former case then the pig ate whatever household rubbish you produced and in the latter an army of minions ‘dealt’ with refuse and detritus and you never troubled your mind with the mechanics (a bit like our own Prince Charles with his toothpaste squeezing valet).

But in the modern garden, bins have to go somewhere!

This nice idea works if you’ve got what used to be called an ‘area’ but most gardens don’t have a convenient concealed place to stick bins. And most bins, these days at least, aren’t neat cylinders in unobtrusive colours. The ones provided by my local council are:

1 - large green wheeled objects, something like the Tardis or possibly a thing you would hide behind and push forward in a riot if you were a police officer in a repressive regime (never let it be said that I lack imagination!)

2 - sundry small black boxes for recycling that have stupid large flat lids that blow off in the slightest breeze and try to decapitate you.

At the moment I have them tucked behind a trellis growing sweet peas, but as the last peas go over, out loom the bins like a family secret.

So how do you hide yours?

Labels: garden makeovers, garden planning

The All Seasons Gardener at 12:59 AM

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