Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Help needed for my screening plants - PLEASE! 14Feb 11, 2010 8:19 pm First_Timer_Ray Wow, what a gorgeous garden - especially seeing as it is still young! Looks quite mature Thanks Ray, many of the natives grow really fast! Just wish my lilly pillys would do the same! Re: Help needed for my screening plants - PLEASE! 15Feb 11, 2010 10:08 pm Mate, hat off to the landscaper who did this A very high standard of design and knowledge. Even some of our excellent WA plants please post his details up if you can because this is to be commended If only you guys could understand the difference to our cities if there were more gardens like this. It would be a significant change in city temps, fauna, water use. It must be pretty nice to sit there and have a cuppa in the morning or a nice cold beer in summer Re: Help needed for my screening plants - PLEASE! 16Feb 11, 2010 10:23 pm A little off topic, Melb folk with kiddies (or not) check out wombat park in templestowe where a couple of acres of native gardens have been designed very simlar to shrek's stunning garden. All the play equipment etc is implemented to be part of the natural landscape. Worth the trip. Re: Help needed for my screening plants - PLEASE! 17Feb 11, 2010 10:31 pm Oh yeah The hedge You'll be pushing poo up a hill to get those to grow well. I'd be ripping them out and plating something more befitting anyway. Thomasias, They would be sensational in there as a hedge. Might be able to get them from a WA nursery or call Zanthorrea nursery and see if they'd post them to you. Something different over you way and something that would be excellent in that position http://www.zanthorrea.com/ Westringea "Smokie" would be a cracker in there. Nice and dense with less hassle. It is a fruticosa and so if smokie isn't available another fruiticosa would be fine. If you can, try get a Verticordia nitens or Verticordia chrysantha in that garden somewhere It will knock your socks off with summer colour! I mean knock your socks off. i know they'd grow well in that garden. There are a few non native species in there so a few Leucodendrons or Leucospermums would be nice as a hedge/ screen Much better than lily pillys Pretty sure you guys get a heap of our Gero waxes (Chamelauciums) over there now days and they would be a highly recommended option for a fast growing hedge. Many Grevillea species would do a nice show for a hedge in their and create a bit more habitat too Oh! Take a look at growing the amazing Acacia cognata. Not the hybrid forms but the plain one. Sensational Those options will make the people with the lily pillys down the road want one of those selections you have instead If you get stuck finding them over east email http://www.zanthorrea.com/contact.php Alec or Jackie can then help you out Re: Help needed for my screening plants - PLEASE! 18Feb 11, 2010 10:36 pm Thanks Fu, your comments are much appreciated. The landscaper is Phillip Johnson and his company is http://www.phillipjohnson.com.au His work is awesome and we couldn't be happier with what he has done. He is all about creating sustainable landscaping environments - that's exactly what we were looking for, creating a native environment that would attract wildlife and be low maintenance. It's not everyones cup of tea, but we love it. We spend so much time out on the deck.
Shrek Re: Help needed for my screening plants - PLEASE! 19Feb 11, 2010 10:43 pm Fu Manchu Oh yeah The hedge You'll be pushing poo up a hill to get those to grow well. I'd be ripping them out and plating something more befitting anyway. Thomasias, They would be sensational in there as a hedge. Might be able to get them from a WA nursery or call Zanthorrea nursery and see if they'd post them to you. Something different over you way and something that would be excellent in that position http://www.zanthorrea.com/ Westringia "smokie" would be a cracker in there. Nice and dense with less hassle. It is a fruticosa and so if Smokie isn't available another fruiticosa would be fine. If you can, try get a Verticordia nitens or Verticordia chrysantha in that garden somewhere It will knock your socks off with summer colour! I mean knock your socks off. i know they'd grow well in that garden. There are a few non native species in there so a few Leucodendrons or Leucospermums would be nice as a hedge/ screen Much better than lily pillys Pretty sure you guys get a heap of our Gero waxes (Chamelauciums) over there now days and they would be a highly recommended option for a fast growing hedge. Many Grevillea species would do a nice show for a hedge in their and create a bit more habitat too Oh! Take a look at growing the amazing Acacia cognata. Not the hybrid forms but the plain one. Sensational Those options will make the people with the lily pillys down the road want one of those selections you have instead If you get stuck finding them over east email http://www.zanthorrea.com/contact.php Alec or Jackie can then help you out Thanks for the advice FU, I sort of thought that taking 2.5 years to grow so little then they weren't probably suited. I will look in to what you have suggested and give it a try. Shrek Re: Help needed for my screening plants - PLEASE! 20Feb 11, 2010 11:13 pm I bet they'd love to see the garden too 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 10362 Thankyou so much 😀 I've decided on White on white for doors and trims, White on white 50% on ceiling and Mt buller for walls. Fingers crossed it will look OK 😀 2 7301 i had the my concreters concrete right up to the fence. I have pits all along my path, so the water tends to drain away from the house and into the pits. There's only one… 7 12879 |