Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Plants for my back yard 6Nov 22, 2009 6:51 pm Salt&PepperMkII Is the right hand side of the plan the front garden?? Are you paving your alfresco up to the same level as the doors?? This may be covering the weep holes. Whats the feature screen and planter box going to be made of?? Feature screen 12 metres high??????? I dont know any plants.. sorry!! But your suggestions sound good. Did you design this all yourself? If you did.. youre a genius!! I might have to copy some ideas of yours for our landscaping!! Really like the idea of grid paving, planter boxers and feature screening. Good luck!! Mmm... right hand side is the back of the house. The front garden is over to the left, and isn't shown (that was done months ago - THANK GOODNESS!) Paving will be below the weep holes. We originally wanted to bring the level up to the brick sills under the bifold doors, so same as floor level inside the house, but that would be half a brick above the weep holes. Bad idea. Oh well.... We think the planter box will be Besser brick or similar, with a rendered finish (God, another colour decision! ). Maybe with capping tiles on top, so it can double as seating. As for the feature wall.... it's actually about 2.4m high, only 600mm or so above the fence. Not sure what the 12m thing is about...maybe the width? Anyway, that's still to be decided - we might make it just the width of the al fresco room. I did come up with most of the design (my husband probably thinks he had some input ...but nah... ). The drawing was done by one of the landscapers we've consulted though - my efforts would be far more amateur. Still waiting for some quotes.... Macy I'm sorry, I don't know. It looks like you have things coming along well already. I sympathise about the lack of shade and the "in a few years" list. We've got a fair bit of shade now but I'm still trying to figure out where to put a dicksonia antarctica. Well, I remember how it was with our first home. No shade for ages, then suddenly, OOPS...too much shade. I had to move my roses around the yard to a sunnier spot and then I had all these shady areas to plant. Hellebores, cliveas, tree ferns, birds nest ferns, fuschias, NZ rock lily (can't for the life of me remember the proper name for that one... ). No sooner did I have all that sorted, than the neighbours cut down a gum tree near the fence and all my ferns started to shrivel. At least gardening is never boring. I may have to rig up some temporary shade so I can plant out my shade-lovers for now till some trees grow. The pittosporums are on my list for screening shrubs. Just need to see what else is around first. can someone with more experience give me their insight? land is pretty much flat its pretty much at the top of a hill. left and right neighbours are flat in line with my… 0 7470 2 4388 there should be ss cable so you can pull up bore pump for service 1 3168 |