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I want to improve the look of our house from the main road. We have a wall in front of the house and between the wall and the road there is a long strip of soil where weed tends to grow (soil strip about 30 cm width)
What is the best thing for me to do? sow grass seeds? or is there something more exciting I could do?! Thanks :o)

 

In one of our villages, someone has spread poppies and fox gloves etc in the narrow bank, and it gives a colourful spectacular show
Which would work well unless the council come along and spray it all

Jack McHammocklashing

 

that sounds nice Jack if your not adverse to putting things on the wall you could get some colourful houseleek's and Pennywort and make it look really chocolate box

House Leeks - sempervivum - Nixpix.me

 

We could do with knowing what direction the wall faces. If its south facing, you could grow tonnes of flowers in that little 30cm strip.

 

Alyssum would look gorgeous all along there, especially as there's many different beautiful colours available...

 

Non-stop Begonias will also give a range of colours that will last all through the Summer, with little effort required. Welsh Poppies, once in, will always be there.
Hopefully the road isn't too busy, otherwise there may be a few additional hazards to the normal garden variety.

 

if the sun shines on it this will become very warm and dry. The soil is not very deep too, as it seems?

Choose sth that hasn't got to be watered and can stand heat.

Houseleeks -I agree on that, easy maintenance.
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with the road being so close -you have to consider that it gets quite salty in the winter when they grit
dunno how long that stuff stays in the soil or is washed out
this might possibly prevent some types of plants to grow nicely?

I only say this because I know there are patches on the motorways (middle partition) where you can see small white flowers and they are said to be salt loving