How to Hide Utilities in the Garden
Since our gardens are fabrications within nature, we need to control how they are built and how they grow. This means we have to incorporate things like plumbing, electrics, supports, and fixtures of various types. Most of these utilities are not decorative and don't enhance the beauty of the garden. Here are some tips on how to make them less noticeable. Does this Spark an idea?
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HIDE BEHIND:
Planting shrubs around utilities will help to blend them into the garden as a whole. Vines can twine up posts to cover them. Place rocks or other items in front of the line of view to disguise what you don't want seen.
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HIDE BELOW:
Cover utilities with hollow ornaments, boxes or covers. You can place a decorative pot or sculpture over the top of something you want to hide.
Fake rocks are great ways to cover objects that protrude above ground. level. -
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Make it something made of lightweight material if you need to open the utility area often.
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Build ornamental walls around your utilities. Make them of block or lattice and grow vines up the front. Or set pots with cascading plants on the top to trail down.
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There are many ways to make utility features blend in. If you can't hide or disguise the offending object, consider building a box around it or painting it a brown or green or another color that will at least help to camouflage it. You might want to encircle it with a decorative fence that blends with the look of the garden. Or if you are talking about a large area of equipment like some pool or well machinery, you can even build a little ornamental shed or house around it complete with doorway, shutters and garden or another version of a mini structure like a barn, an old western jail, an English pub, a tee-pee or any other imaginative covering. I once had a client whose business was making honey from his honeycombs. We covered his well area with a big sculpture of a bee. This one is probably not to everyone's taste, but it worked for him!
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