Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Dec 31, 2008 10:16 am Trees shown at the back of the house are not in correct positions. and there are a couple more but it's a start. Once the easement is gone We might end up with a large shed down the back but for the moment we will just have a smaller garden shed somewhere. Possibly on the nwest side of the house. We will also need somewhere to store wood for our wood fire. Eventually ( hopefully in about 3-6 yrs) we'll have an above ground spa so I've added one in. I've also added in the 2 patios we are likely to have. The grey bands are retaining walls and on top of the left hand one is fencing/or some sort of view diffusing screen. The double grey band behind the septic is approx where the leech drains may end up being. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The house faces north east. with north being the corner of the garage wall and west being inline with the trees currently on the block. ( back right hand corner of the house) For our front garden A purple/blue theme. The purple being a reddish purple of the rhoeo's and the flowering plum as well as bluish purple from the lavenders and rosemary. dietes grandiflora - I have around 100 of these to plant. - Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ There is another strappy type plant in our current rental It has very fine flower stems and tiny purple seed/fruit. It grows in more of a rounded clump a than a flat clump like the dietes. I will take a photo today so I can get it identified ( it's not deadly night shade in case anyone is thinking that) I wouldn't mind some of these in the front garden as well. As a garden bed border- rhoeo- Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Small lawn area( it's larger than we want it to be in the drawing above) Our only lawn area. Rosemary/s Deep purple-bunny ear type lavender one of the 30-40cm growing types to compliment the rhoeo colours flowering plum 2 other deciduous trees- unsure what yet. purple agapanthus- prob down at the block corner. This is the lowest point of the block and might be too damp? HT rose- Scarlet Queen Elizabeth ( 5) Possibly another rose between each bulbs: dutch iris Other plants: A Weeping tree Developer is supposed to be putting Weeping peppermints along the back boundary of the block within the easement area. (Agonis flexuosa ) We had one of these in our last backyard. I grew it from tube stock. Somewhere in the garden but possibly in another area completely I would like the rose 'Black Velvet" Also an area dedicated to several camelias and some azaleas Along the retaining wall between the house and the main road my intention was to plant a row of Grevilla "Ned Kelly" They can grow to 2x3m and get quite messy if not pruned. We had one in our backyard at our last house. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ These might end up on the street side of the fruit trees rather than along the retaining wall . They are very much bee attracting as well as bird attracting. Fruit trees- lemon, cherry, apple?, plum? perhaps one of those multi fruit variety citrus trees. Blog http://wherethehearthis.blogspot.com/ Build https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=6634: Yard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27687&p=378401#p378401 Re: Garden plans so far 2Jan 01, 2009 12:34 pm It all sounds great KK. Isn't it fun to plan a garden .
The small strappy plants you describe might be dianellas, some are local to WA. Take a pic it might help. Maybe you will find your plants here: http://www.allianceseeds.com.au/default.asp I have a small suggestion re: your septic tank/ drainage area, plant some native rushes there to use up the extra nutrients and moisture, they cope very well with watre logged soil but also withstand long periods of drought. Have a look at this company, you might find plenty of interesting grassy plants native to your area http://geographelandcarenursery.mysouth ... .au/Garden You can try your agapanthus where you want it, if it is too wet it will let you know and you can always change your plantings in the low area. Garden is not like a house, it is a living organism that changes constantly and some plants will fail, others will thrive, there is no one recipe, it depends on the conditions of your garden. Maggie Re: Garden plans so far 3Jan 01, 2009 1:11 pm Hi Maggie thanks for your suggestion for the plants for near the leech drains. It should be beautiful and green there. Originally we were considering some lawn there but have decided to only have lawn in a section out the front of the house. I like the idea of using rushes. Thanks for the website links. Great to get a local Geographe one as well.
. The plant is not a Dianella. Have a look below. does it look familiar? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ You are right of course about the agapanthus. For years I had some large agapanthus planted outside our lounge room window but although they grew nice and strappy it was too shady for beautiful flowers. I shifted them all to a garden bed at the edge of the verge/our land boundary and they are doing beautifully. We drove past our old house on the weekend and they looked magnificent. From that dianella web site the Lomandra Filiforms "Savanna Blue" looks like they would go well in the front garden area too. I'm keen to gather all the suggestions I can. Re: Garden plans so far 4Jan 01, 2009 6:26 pm It is dianella see this link
http://www.abulk.com.au/awn/dianella_caerulea.html Unfortunately I do not know which one as there are many and there are many what the nurseries call "improved" read: hybridised varieties. I have a local one that I bought from the local replanting nursery at last years Garden week but with all the renovations I misplaced the label. Maggie Re: Garden plans so far 5Jan 01, 2009 7:09 pm oo thank you maggie. I did look at that link but didn't spot it. The lady who owns this house is a keen gardener. When we move I'll ask her if she could tell me what plant it is and where she got it. I know she was very excited when they came to put up our fence and saw we had some of our own plants. The plants have only been in just over a year now so hopefully she'll remember what she planted. She said it looked like a home with plants around the house. Re: Garden plans so far 7Jan 02, 2009 2:58 pm Yes she might well do so. I'm waiting for our next rent inspection for someone to comment on us having to remove a branch from one of the fairly recently planted trees. (branch was badly split and was damaging the main trunk by continuing to split) poor tree looks very lopsided as it is now we've removed the damaged branch.
I've been looking at the plans and had considered that the grevillea's might need to be moved if we want to keep them. If we do plant fruit trees next to them we are setting ourselves up for so much "fun" attracting nectar eating birds and bees right next to fruit trees is probably not the wisest thing to do. I am determined to plant at least one of them so perhaps they might be something to consider at the back of the house. Unless we move the fruit trees to the back area instead. ATM I'm trying to figure out a use for the area to the left of the retaining wall. It will be slightly sloped towards the property boundary. I figured using it for fruit trees was a good use. I finally got DH interested in looking at my "ideas" and we've redone the garden plan with a smaller lawn area now and more retaining and a 2 level area out the front. There will now be a much deeper garden bed area between the front of the house and the lawn. It is likely we will need slight retaining down beside the drive way for at least the first few meters closest to the garage. I'm keen to have definite division between garden beds and lawn so depending on what we do the retaining with for the front area near the drive the lawn may come up to the drive. ( I wasn't that thrilled about having a bed between the lawn and the driveway. ) At this stage we want limestone blocks for the left retaining wall but were looking for cheaper alternatives for any other retaining walls. I'm keen to have something solid/solidish. i don't want plantlife growing between rock type retaining walls. We might consider twinside or some sort of staggered block type retaining for the rest of the areas. Putting in twinside might be impossible given the amount of rock on the block. As much as I loved our huge moss rock retaining wall we had in our last house. Keeping the couch out of it was a nightmare. Re: Garden plans so far 8Apr 10, 2010 5:08 pm well things are starting to happen. 10 m3 , though some peopel have said it looks closer to 12m3 of organic soil arrived here during the week. Today I visited http://www.leschenaultcommunitynursery.com.au/ and purchased some tube stock. $3 each for 20 plants. Photos to be uploaded soon. They include some variegated correas. grevilla gingin gem and others. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This one with the purple flowers is really prickly. the lady said people often buy it to deter cats. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I also took the opportunity to buy 30m grey nylex eclipse hose and a gardener spray from "B". Re: Garden plans so far 9Apr 10, 2010 7:37 pm Hemiandra is the spiky one It is very good for keeping cats out of garden beds If it were me, I'd clip all that stuff back a bit before planting, especially the correas Re: Garden plans so far 10Apr 10, 2010 9:26 pm yup Fu, Actually I just went for a look today to see what they had. I think I'll buy some more spikey ones. I'm hoping the rabbits wont be so keen on them either. The correas are going along part of the retaining wall. I'll get some more of them in a few weeks when the saturday nursery is open again. They won't be being planted for a while yet. They are now all hidden in amongst my dietes for safe keeping. I will either alternate them with the plain non variegated ones or with something else I think. Re: Garden plans so far 11Apr 10, 2010 9:47 pm For local community nurseries try Bridgetown community nursery 08 9761 1312 Geographe community Landcare nursery 0409 376 976 Leschenault community nursery Johnston Rd Bunbury 08 9791 4670 Oh and for you retic call Margs Nursery and Irrigation 9757 2691 Re: Garden plans so far 12Apr 10, 2010 10:05 pm The plants were from the Leschenault community nursery . I will be checking out the geograph one too in the near future. hmm margaret river is a bit far for a retic place Fu. Re: Garden plans so far 14Apr 25, 2010 12:42 pm woohoo Went to the Balingup Small farm and field day late yesterday when it had about an hour to go before it closed. Picked up some terrific bargains. Saw some of those recycled cardboard tube stock pots being used by one group. Almost bought a small raised garden bed at a bargain price but hubby declared it was too small. A shame there were no large ones being sold. Last year there were quite a number on display. From the larger deep tube stock 10 dwarf abelias ( think it's time to pull up the ones on intensive care from the summer burn). Should have bought 25 1 Kunzea Sulphurea ( to test it out as a screening bush) 3 x melaleuca incana nana ( ground cover. soft) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 1 Grevillia thelemanniana ( small shrub. trial) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 2 x eremophila racemosa ( desert pride peaches and cream) shrub Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 3x creeping boobialla ( ground cover) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ $40 Re: Garden plans so far 15Apr 29, 2010 12:39 am The Kunzea is going to be an excellent screen if you clip it. They can flower for months sometimes. Re: Garden plans so far 16Nov 19, 2011 7:05 pm Leads on to the following thread. viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27687&p=378401#p378401 Re: Garden plans so far 17Dec 01, 2011 1:47 am If you are feeling keen and want to try some mass plantings of something. http://www.olelantana.com/ http://www.4seasonsseeds.com.au/epages/4seasons.sf Fig Landscapes has produced an e-book and native plant index, available for purchase from their website. It's a great resource, full of inspiration and tips. Another… 1 12264 The OP has gone The latch and striker are definitely not aligned but there was no point trying to help the OP understand that. Hence the reason they are no longer with us. 12 5692 Really tight at the top of the stairs- how to get furniture into those rooms? Study books - does anyone really use them these days? Large storage closet would be more functional. 2 6894 |