Along the Drive and ideas for the Tiny SideYard

Okay, and now we're getting into the sideyard and driveway ideas. Mind you the sideyard is going to be about 47 feet. / a little less than that since we're going to take out the hillside by the drive to make the parking wider for garbage, groceries, guests and car doors. And about 5-10 ft wide on the one side. "Tiny yard." 

Pretty self explain

The thing is, we're on a hill. So we can see DOWN into the neighbors business and if we're outside eating they can see what we're UP to. You can see the small retaining wall we're going to put in to widen the drive a little more. I thought of having this done in a smaller scale that leads upto the sideyard from the driveway. See the steps that lead up into the Yard. I wondered if this would be Too much to have and act as privacy. I don't want to "Box" ourselves in but I don't want to be in the middle of a meal, turn my head and wave at a neighbor watching us eat from their porch.



Welcome to the side yard and tone the nib down?



Patio Idea but instead of it being in the middle it surrounds the edges

Oh, and not to worry about flowering layouts I found a TON of Pdf files on BHG (better homes and gardens) that I can mix and match around with.

How I'm pictureing the side of the house. The windoes are the bedrooms
but the sitting area is more to the left which would be in front of the
dining area and kitchen.

I thought this was a pretty side yard dress up. Would look real
nice around grandma's house. Especially if you give the red brick
a coat of blue gray then go over it in white with a chocolate steel roof.

I love those daisy's. It's a variety of Black eyed Susan the name
eludes me. But I do know it.

Time consuming but a well worth river rock garden.
Use the rocks natural color and some cement along the bottom with
sand wetted down over top of it to make it stick and you have a
persian stone rug.

I love the roses with this front door. It's so pretty.

To hide the retaining wall railroad ties. Polyurethane the sticks
gathered and snipped to size with lopper cutters and use some
thin wire to loop and hold it all together.

How I want to do the patio but the green
squares would be Mint. So when you walk
on it the smell permiates the air.

This was just cool. It's on wheels and acts as a privacy barrier for
the backyard and when there's an event or guests over they move it
to the side to allow access to the back yard. Thought of doing this
to the side of the driveway since Einy wants to conrete it all.

Another side yard idea.

So very pretty, I'm wondering if I could scale
it down to size and still have it look right.

Absolutely loved this for the Driveway idea. But
just along one side of it with a plant tall enough to
block the view down into the neighbors home. I would
also love to do this down camp with the Drive and for the
driveway towards the church.

Another stunning side yard done up to the nines.

Another Patio idea but between the crevices place Mint instead
of crete or sand.

Instead of the arbor maybe this as the entrance
up into the side yard at the house corner.