A retaining garden bed with drainage system built using Besser blocks on a cement slab base to plant screening bamboo trees to block a neighbours view into the backyard.
The project
Our neighbours have just had a super large renovation and their balcony lights shine all the way into our bedrooms. We needed to build a screen that was minimum 10 metres to ensure that we could block the lights. We decided to build a retaining garden similar to the exisiting fence and planted bamboo.
Steps
Step 1
Clear existing plants from the wall and pressure wash the wall. We then used the exterior paint to match the screen that the council required the neighbours to put in. We love the colour (Monument).
Step 2
Build retaining wall using Besser blocks. This required a trench to be dug, a cement slab to be put down since the ground was very uneven, and levelling the Besser blocks in place.
Step 3
Once Besser blocks were in place and dry, we put in a drainage system using PVC piping and drainage gravel. Covered this with soil from Bunnings, planted the bamboo, and covered with mulch bark.
Step 4
Then everything looked a bit old, so the garden bed was painted the same colour, a hose reel installed and now it's just waiting on the grass and bamboo to grow.
Tools and materials
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