garden wall design

[Stuart Noble]

I'm looking for a photo or plan for a low brick wall for the front of the house that would double up as a planter, trailing lobelia and all that stuff. Any jpegs out there to give me inspiration? TIA

[Mike Halmarack]

Personally I'm crazy about crinkle-crankle .

[Stuart Noble]

Thanks, Mike. Nice in Suffolk, but probably not outside a terraced house in London:-) Thinking of a straight, 3 hollow piers type arrangement, about 12 ft long. It'll probably end up full of weeds but you gotta have a dream on these winter days.

[Mike Halmarack]

Some weeds have great character, are dream enhancing and just love crinkle-crankle walls wherever they begin and end. :-)

[Guy King]

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Another one here

used to play on that as a kid.

[Mike Halmarack]

They are a lot more inviting than straight walls aren't they?

[Guy King]

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Certainly to run along the top of when in infant school, yes. Grass at the foot of the wall helps, too.

I had heard that they were done like that to allow for thermal expansion

- but I think the stability issue is more likely - that and they look nice.

[fred]

In article , Mike Halmarack writes

Just imagine the potential for boundary disputes in today's society :-/, I like the look & strength though.

[Stuart Noble]

Ok, so what about low walls that aren't crinkley-crankley?

[fred]

Given the disputes that can occur with boundaries I think life is likely to be more straightforward in that department with a straight one, however low, but certainly more boring

[Chris J Dixon]

Just a thought - keep it in proportion. Someone near me has had built a massive hollow double wall with pillars, in front of a modest bungalow. Well constructed (though completely inappropriate brick colour), but totally out of scale - it would stop a tank, and the planting is dwarfed.

Perhaps time will soften it ;-)

Chris

[The Medway Handyman]

Plant stuff, lay weed control fabric around it, gravel on top of that. No weeds! No watering!

[Rob Morley]

More like "lay membrane, plant through it, cover it" ...

[The Medway Handyman]

That as well!