Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Oct 14, 2008 8:18 am Hi
I need some help, I have been looking for this gravel for a few weekends now. I visited a Devine display home and want to use some of the same things. The problem is i cant find a supplier for the gravel used. I know where to get 50mm and 25mm pebbles but cant find the small gravel used around the edge which is the same colour as the larger river pebbles. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ So basically i am looking for somewhere to get the gravels, Also if anyone knows a good place to get these types of plans that would be brilliant. (I think the big ones are grass trees. is that correct?) Thanks Jay Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 2Oct 14, 2008 3:01 pm hey mate,
I think the big black ones with the hair are yakkas. If so, get ready to fork out the coin. If your hungry, you can pull the green hair off the trunk and eat the white part. But dont get caught..they are protected species in national parks (I think). Virginia Nursery (near the RAAF base) stocks these and the other plants you are after. Reasonable prices as well. The stones (larger ones) look like river rocks. The polished ones come in 20kg bags that you can get from most hardware stores. Otherwise, try Garden Grove, they have a good range. Silver fern (?) in norwood has some reasonable stuff as well. hope this helps. Why are priates scary ? Because they yaargh.. Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 3Oct 14, 2008 3:03 pm whoops, just re read your post.
re: smaller pebbles. Dont know - maybe they crushed them themselves ? I suspect something like that comes in plastic packets rather than by the trailer-load... sorry ! Why are priates scary ? Because they yaargh.. Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 4Oct 14, 2008 4:07 pm Have you tried calling and asking the display home builder? They may have a source where they get all their garden materials from.
The grass trees are great, but they will cost you lots $$$. You must get them from a certified seller, otherwise they could be just ripped out of the bush. I think you will need to keep the certification label near or on the tree too. Judie Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 5Oct 14, 2008 10:25 pm The tall skinny ones in the first pic are Draceana marginata or similar. maybe black night? hard to tell but they are not having fun there that's for sure. Better for areas with better soil moisture, but they may survive
It looks like it might be a lomandra of somesort in the back there. There are loads of excellent varieties of these available. great plants. Then there's some carax. either frosted curls that has died or the orange sedge one that just looks dead but may not be now in the second pic there are the Xanthorea or blackboys as we used to call them and still do or "grasstrees" as we are supposed to call them now. They actually look like the ones that Benara nurseries send over east to retail nurseries and large landscape firms. In the front of that shot is another draceana that is again not having fun there. more dead looking carax in the back ground and the pony tails either side of the light which will do very well there and will look a million bucks in years to come. The rocks... sorry Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 6Oct 15, 2008 8:11 pm Try the quarries in Angaston ... there are two that can help you with the crushed stone. They have several different types of marble chip etc (probably 10-15 types) that we saw when investigating options re: aggregate for polished cement floors.
Also try the Indigenous nursery in Hendon for grass trees. They are grown from seed and have a better chance of living than those that are sold in most nurseries. Most generic nurseries take the grass trees from the ground and transplant them into pots. These will usually take three years to die a slow gradual death. Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 7Oct 15, 2008 8:45 pm Fu Manchu - those dracenas will likely survive. Why? I've got some that I have been trying to kill for over 10 years, and they're still going strong (can't bear to throw out a plant). Maybe I should plant them in the ground at our new place and see what happens?
Judie Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 8Oct 15, 2008 10:33 pm not the ones in that photo they won't They are older plants that would have been very nice on planting and healthy too. They really in theory should be doing well. They most likely would be shade grown specimens planted out in full sun. so they are a bit sad looking.
Normally Draceanas are great outside. Marginata and black knight will do well. The others like colourama and tricolour will struggle in SA and southern WA in the sun as the sun has much more bite here than Sydney. Also Sydney has rainfall more evenly distributed throughout the year than Southern WA and South Aus so they do a little better with out irrigation. Judie if you bung them in the ground they will hug you and grow so well for you. If they have been sheltered under a patio then they may take some getting used to the sun for a year or so. That's what they do here anyway Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 9Oct 15, 2008 11:13 pm Actually, we have neglected them on purpose. Sounds sad, doesn't it. But, we've had the original plant for over 20 years, and still it lives on. Hardy little bugger.
Judie Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 10Oct 15, 2008 11:24 pm yeah I just planted several large cuttings from a sunhardened tricolour. They are looking crap just now once the roots grow they will bounce back. The parent plant they came from has also been neglected but did take 7 years to come good Re: SA - Need Help Identifying Gravel and Plants Supplier 11Oct 20, 2008 4:48 pm The small gravel looks to me like the same size as they use for some exposed aggregate driveways.
Maybe call a local concreter and find out who their supplier is? We have a similar issue with our local garden supply only having the larger pebbles. However, the nearest sand and soil business supplies all of the local concreters and they have the finer gravel and pebbles. Murraya could be a great option for you. It creates a great tall screening hedge but doesn't drop fruit like lily pilly. The flowers smell divine. 2 10216 Hi there, I'm a conplete newbie to this, but I'm looking to put a floor down in my 6x9m shed. It's currently sitting on a 100mm thick concrete perimeter (dirt floor… 0 6432 |