I am trying to get some ideas for this rather narrow pathway on the side of our house. We are in the process of moving the driveway currently in back of our house (you can see a car parked there in one photo) and returning the back of our house to a natural backyard. A raised bed would be difficult because of the utilities that come in at various parts of that wall though we love fieldstone walls and raised beds. However we cannot cover up the utilities nor raise the soil level too high in other cases because of carbon monoxide vents that need to be a certain height from the ground.

This part of the garden gets a lot of sun in the morning and less so in the afternoon because of the bordering trees. This is an old colonial style house and we'd like to stay in a rather English informal country style and use native & low maintenance plants as much as possible.

Any advice would not fall on deaf ears. Thanks.

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