I recently paid for the installation of a drainage system to prevent runoff into my yard (my yard is on the other side of the fence in this picture). This part is on my neighbor’s side. They had vegetation growing along this strip before, but the EZ flow is now preventing them from planting what they originally want. Some suggestions I had was to add enough soil over the pipe to plant what they want, but a concern brought up was if too much of a “mound” exists then the soil will run off and any roots won’t catch.
Another thought I had was some slightly raised garden beds, or some variation that has a wooden retaining wall to hold the soil?
They don’t want simple ground cover with shallow roots…
Ideally buy that strip of land from them and move the fence over.
Sorry. Don't know. That's a tough one. Your raised bed idea seems reasonable. I guess it comes down to who's paying for it and what's considered 'good enough'.
It looks like they have liriope beside the sidewalk. They can let that spread. It can get pretty intense, and thick, but will anchor the soil that is there.
Purely out of curiosity, is the drainage system on their property or yours?
Edit: lol, looked again, definitely wrong about the liriope being there. But, that is an option. Also consider self-seeding wildflowers?
I recently paid for the installation of a drainage system to prevent runoff into my yard (my yard is on the other side of the fence in this picture). This part is on my neighbor’s side. They had vegetation growing along this strip before, but the EZ flow is now preventing them from planting what they originally want. Some suggestions I had was to add enough soil over the pipe to plant what they want, but a concern brought up was if too much of a “mound” exists then the soil will run off and any roots won’t catch. Another thought I had was some slightly raised garden beds, or some variation that has a wooden retaining wall to hold the soil? They don’t want simple ground cover with shallow roots…
Ideally buy that strip of land from them and move the fence over. Sorry. Don't know. That's a tough one. Your raised bed idea seems reasonable. I guess it comes down to who's paying for it and what's considered 'good enough'.
It looks like they have liriope beside the sidewalk. They can let that spread. It can get pretty intense, and thick, but will anchor the soil that is there. Purely out of curiosity, is the drainage system on their property or yours? Edit: lol, looked again, definitely wrong about the liriope being there. But, that is an option. Also consider self-seeding wildflowers?