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Otherwise there is pretty much nothing that oven cleaner can't remove
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Also - does it particularly need to be usable space? If you have the further along bit for summer use, the patio can just be to look nice through the window from the inside? Even the most avid gardener probably spends more time looking at their garden from the inside than the outside, in this country.
Even more reason to pack it full of shapely green leaves all year round.
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Big planter along the left hand side? Those current pots are all pretty small. More compost = healthier plants. Then several big evergreen leafy things - as above but also something bushy like aucuba japonica or lonicera nitrida? Those should all be unkillable.
Maybe just my own taste but I tend to think gardens need to be as green as possible.
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(just realised you are looking for building not garden tips. But there are nice plants which will do ok in literally any conditions)
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What city is this in? It can't be that cold if it's London. Ferns, fatsias and dwarf bamboos are thriving in damp, full shade for me.
They're in containers though. Is it maybe your soil that's the issue? In which case, a tonne of nice pots and planters and galvanised buckets etc etc.
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I mean I hear you... My wife's family are Asian too though, albeit South Asian, and every single one uses a saucepan. They would never be able to forgive me for spending £330 on a rice cooker.
The draining the water thing I agree with - if you use the right amount of water, there is none left to drain.
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And there's me still using a saucepan like some sort of stone age idiot :'(
eBay has plenty otherwise