Storage Shed With a Green Roof

In this small garden, no space is wasted

Today we ’re shoot the breeze with Hylton Jolliffe to see a coolheaded new project .

We ’ve get under one’s skin a smallish urban garden in Jamaica Plain , a wonderful neck of the woods of Boston . With place at a premium , both inside and outside of the house , and no garage or even off - street parking available and a desire to not be sleep with our wall , doors , and furniture when pulling our bike out to be used , we want to make a bike “ garage ” outside our front door that could also be put to used in other ways .

Hence the creation of our young 3 - foot by 16 - footshedthat includes two lockable bays for our bicycle , kids ’ playthings , and gardening tool , and an open bay for trash and recycling bank identification number .

The whole thing is topped by a 10 - inch - deep bed that effectively functions as a large container plantation owner .

We ’ve also been able to piggyback the existing sprinkler scheme and extend a soaking hose up and through the bed , which is lined and slightly splosh to the left-hand and back to admit drain .

Among the plants in this bed and the two bottom across and in front of the shed are creeping Jenny(Lysimachianummularia‘Aurea ’ , zone 3–9),astilbe , heuchera , hosta , various moss , hakone grass(Hakonechloamacra , Zones 5–9 ) , and more .

In addition to a pleasant backyard that includes a bluestone terrace , we ’ve got vegetable dapple , a blueberry bush cluster , pink wine , and a front yard that include a Little Free Library as well as a comrade initiative that ’s gotten a morsel of traction and been picked up by others : a “ Little Free Herbary”—a front - grand bed of herbs such as oregano , chives , rosemary , andparsleythat are offered up to neighbors and passersby .

We ’ve just wrap up up the construction and planting of the shed and are loving the way it look as well as the function it dish and , of course , the way the garden search .

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