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low mud wall....ideas please?

  • 15-09-2019 5:37pm
    #1
    dinnybyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    im a bit lost on finding a solution to this. Its nearly a vertical wall, very low approximately a foot. Im looking for a cheaper and easier way to pretty it up than building a retaining wall or putting in a raised flower bed. The lawn was originally sloped to meet the top of the muck and i had it levelled.Any suggestions appreciated.


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  • #2
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,575 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    dinnybyrne wrote: »
    Hi,
    im a bit lost on finding a solution to this. Its nearly a vertical wall, very low approximately a foot. Im looking for a cheaper and easier way to pretty it up than building a retaining wall or putting in a raised flower bed. The lawn was originally sloped to meet the top of the muck and i had it levelled.Any suggestions appreciated.

    Photo? For input.


  • #3
    dinnybyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭dinnybyrne


    listermint wrote:
    Photo? For input.

    Sorry trying to add a pic now


  • #4
    dinnybyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭dinnybyrne


    dinnybyrne wrote: »
    Sorry trying to add a pic now

    Here you go


  • #5
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You haven't done your hedge any favours there. Hard to know what to suggest but maybe some timber held in place by stakes and infill behind it to give the roots a bit of protection.


  • #6
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Earth bank, grass, strim for neatness.

    Or else that hedge is probably doomed.


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  • #7
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Looks like a typical council road job to me, dig everything away to make it level and to hell with the consequences.

    The only good thing (or bad depending on your love of it) is that the hedge looks like shrubby honeysuckle Lonicera nitida which is hard to kill.

    I'd pull all the crap out of the bottom of the hedge cut out the ivy and reduce the height by a third.

    Then I'd put some soil back but not a whole lot and allow the hedge to grow out a bit on the grass side. Then cut the hedge on that side with a pronounced batter (slope it from the bottom inwards to the top).


  • #8
    Car99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    Gradually slope the lawn up to the top of the mud. Be perfect.


  • #9
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Car99 wrote: »
    Gradually slope the lawn up to the top of the mud. Be perfect.
    this seems to be quite literally the reverse of the job which left the OP with this situation.


  • #10
    dinnybyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭dinnybyrne


    Thanks for the advice everyone.
    Certainly dont want to have a slope there again so thats out of the question.
    As for the hedge i hate it but its too close to the road and would be a nightmare to replace, so will probably have to take care of it.
    Maybe a thin wooden flower bed is the only option?
    Or is there a shrub i could put along the base that would compliment the hedge?


  • #11
    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭blackbox


    What about planting a hedge to hide it?


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  • #12
    dinnybyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭dinnybyrne


    blackbox wrote:
    What about planting a hedge to hide it?


    Was thinking to do that, i could let it grow and replace the old one too. Would lose a few feet of garden to it but not a bad idea...


  • #13
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Use railway sleepers a foot or so out and backfill with soil. That will give you a planting area so the hedge roots can be concealed.


  • #14
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    How about embedding shells, or even cobblestones, onto the surface?


  • #15
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    dinnybyrne wrote: »
    Was thinking to do that, i could let it grow and replace the old one too. Would lose a few feet of garden to it but not a bad idea...

    I as said it looks to me like Lonicera nitida which roots far too easily, let it grow out on the garden side and it will root where it hits the ground, you could even down some branches or poke in some cuttings.


  • #16
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I am totally intrigued to know what is it you can see through the hole in the hedge? It kinda looks like distant countryside, but there is a house there.


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