2 hours ago, samhouston said:

it gets mowed almost every day

 

man, you really need to see someone about that 

I, personally, think it looks horrible - even the "good" ones. I'm currently trying to figure out what to do with the long forgotten area down the side of my house, as it's a desolate wasteland of ugliness and it'd be nice to open the blinds in the living room down that side of the house again haha. But the GF has a dog and I currently have no lawn out the back...so it gets kinda annoying having to put pants on to take him out the front to go to the toilet, so I'm half tempted to put some actual lawn down that side (with a garden bed(s) against the fence) so that I can just let him out the back and he has somewhere to go and do his business that doesn't involve him treading through dirt or the garden beds. Plus a bit of green down that side of the house would be nice. It's not an overly massive area though...so not sure how good it'd look.

 

Problem is that I've only got one retic line run down that side of the house, so whatever I plant there will need to be running off the same retic station - so I'm not too sure how well it'll work watering that little patch of lawn on the same station as the front garden beds (it was the only way I could run retic down that side of the house effectively).

6 minutes ago, .Stripes. said:

I'm currently trying to figure out what to do with the long forgotten area down the side of my house, as it's a desolate wasteland of ugliness and it'd be nice to open the blinds in the living room down that side of the house again haha.

 

What about pinebark/woodchips and a couple of decent pot plants and/or ferns?

 

Concrete stepping stones and a bird bath, make it a feature and go full wog

before 

 

 

after  

 

1 hour ago, .Stripes. said:

Don't do it, JET! Fake grass can EAD.

Nup ive built a few times now and bought a few times and everytime I re do or install beautiful fresh new lawn ..... fast forward 9 months and I’m struggling to find time to mow and care for it and/or there’s to much shade and it becomes patchy lawn and yeh basically had enough of paying for something that’s going to turn to junk

 

good quality fake lawn can look amazing all year round with a few blower vac’s here n there 

 

the new place has a decent rear yard and im just not up for that level of care on a regular basis so fake it will be !

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Didn't even think of stones - I know the dogs here are happy using the wood chips to releive themselves, not too sure how they'd go with rock

Wood chips definitely aren't my preference as he seems to have created a game out of eating mulch - he digs it out of the GF's indoor pot plants and spreads it around and will run around my backyard and grab a piece of mulch and then run around like a madman trying to stop me from taking it from him. Turns out that just going inside and closing the screen door gets his attention enough that he'll drop the mulch so I let him come back inside.

 

Have thought about stones, in a pretty similar way to what BCB has done...but again, not overly ideal with respects to cleaning up dog parcels...

 

I hadn't really considered the shade aspect to lawn down there though...hmmm...

Yeh without enough long hours of sunlight it will turn to Pooh and then you’ll have 2 Pooh’s to clean up down there  

In saying that, there does appear to be some varieties of buffalo lawn that are pretty heavily shade resistant...interesting...

Fake lawn or pave everywhere.   All low maintenance.