Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Our Landscaping Story 61May 03, 2009 11:24 am That looks fantastic Eager I've always loved what you have done with your garden and this is no exception. You have given me some great ideas with what to do at our place when the time comes. Well DOne My karma ran over your dogma Re: Our Landscaping Story 62May 03, 2009 11:37 am Thanks Bel. The pics aren't great and my 'jungle' looks a bit sparse really, but I can't wait until it all grows a bit! Geoff - Decophile. Re: Our Landscaping Story 63May 03, 2009 12:32 pm well done eager. those palms and things look great now, in a few years when they grow and thicken up it will be really lovely! "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Our Landscaping Story 64May 03, 2009 5:12 pm Wow, looks great Eager! i really like your pathways 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Our Landscaping Story 65May 03, 2009 10:16 pm I can see what that is going to be like in 5 years! Bloody fantastic!!!! It will be a tropical oasis Really keep loading up on that mulch, and heaps of blood and bone, you can get away with dynamic lifter where you are too Then once the canopy forms you can go nuts with under planting Re: Our Landscaping Story 66May 05, 2009 9:32 pm Thanks heaps guys, the compliments make it all just a bit more worthwhile. Geoff - Decophile. Re: Our Landscaping Story 68Jun 21, 2009 10:54 am Just found this post...I love your paving and the rest of your garden too. Built Liberty 42 - Handover 26th Feb 2010 forum thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17243 Re: Our Landscaping Story 69Jun 21, 2009 4:40 pm I saw in the pic of the garden on the last page with all the palms, in the bottom right you have one of my favourites, cycas thouarsii http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-b ... +thouarsii Re: Our Landscaping Story 70Jun 21, 2009 7:50 pm Yeah Fu, it's just a little bit different from the 'normal' Cycad and makes the garden a little less boring. We found them when we went back to our palm supplier for more plants. By the way everything has survived so far, some of the palms look a little discoloured and ragged, probably from the shock of actually being stuck in a hole in the ground instead of in a pot under shelter, but they are generally in pretty good condition, although we haven't had a decent frost this winter yet. I haven't actually applied fertiliser yet either (does cat and dog poo count? ), preferring to leave it until after winter when we get into the growing season. Geoff - Decophile. Re: Our Landscaping Story 71Jun 21, 2009 8:26 pm I would suggest organic material instead of fertiliser. If they were under shelter, you are going to see those puppies burn in the first few summers. However just keep getting sheep and cow poo around them, get a worm farm going and use the "worm juice" and castings on them. Dynamic Lifter in your area will be fine too. If you can't put that stuff down because the mutt will eat it, then make a poo tea instead and pour the water over the soil (that is made from moo or cow poo or liquefy the dynamic lifter) Feed the soil - fertilisers just feed the plant (kind of) It's going to look pretty bloody good once a few summers pass. Those Cycas Thouarsii will grow beautiful and lush looking. I know a guy who has one about 6m high now! Even when small they fill out like a fern then become like a tree fern and then more like a palm. One of the most primitive plants alive today Re: Our Landscaping Story 72Jun 21, 2009 8:43 pm Thanks Fu, that's the approach I will take, liquefy some organic stuff, it should keep the smell down too. Geoff - Decophile. Re: Our Landscaping Story 74Jun 22, 2009 10:13 am Hi, I am new on the board... can't resist to reply on this post... I absolutely love gardening... have 5 acres outside of Darwin and have been landscaping madly for the last 2 years (more softscape than hardscape though, if you know what I mean). I love that you put in more plants.... Once you get into more palms and other tropicals plants, your lawn areas are going to get smaller and smaller . Regards, Ari Ari & Scott Darwin, NT Re: Our Landscaping Story 75Jun 22, 2009 11:48 am Thanks Ari, the big challenge down here is not whether the palms will survive the cold winter nights, but whether we get enough rain and mild temperatures in summer to sustain them. Here's hoping. Geoff - Decophile. Re: Our Landscaping Story 76Jun 22, 2009 12:55 pm I know several people in Melbourne who grow palms and several in Tassie. So, it can be done. You just have to make sure that they are cold hardy varieties. Let me know how they go.. Regards, Ari Ari & Scott Darwin, NT Re: Our Landscaping Story 77Jun 22, 2009 11:52 pm Yeah he has done pretty well on choices for those. The goldencane (chrysalidocarpus) may struggle but that isn't bad and sets a good challange The strelitzia nicolai, cocos or queen palm(cocos plumosa), the cycad (Cyacas Thuorasii), the bangalows (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana) or they might be alexanders (same as bangalows but alexandrae) there is a fur under the leaves that distinguishes the two but can't remember which has the fur They will do fine in the cold. You might get some blackening in the first few winters. Bung on some yates drought shield if they start looking wobbly Re: Our Landscaping Story 78Jun 23, 2009 8:41 am Geoff, If you want to read what the others plant in the colder climate, visit http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/ It is an American forum, but a few Aussie do post there... A few Tasmanians, a few Melbournians, a few Queenslanders, a few Western Australians, and me from NT (unfortunately). Although, I have to warn you.... palms are very addictive!! Regards, Ari Ari & Scott Darwin, NT Re: Our Landscaping Story 80Jun 23, 2009 8:40 pm Thanks for the link Ari, I just read through a few of the threads where the summer's weather and fires were discussed. You really do live in a cold part of the country don't you? Geoff - Decophile. Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 9359 We bought land in Tallawong Schofields NSW size 30m X 12.5m and planning to get double story house build around 350 sqm. We are thinking about having premium inclusions… 0 4739 Hi everyone, Hoping someone can give us some much needed advice. We've been dealing with a draftsman and his architect employee (yes) for over two years now. They've… 0 188 |