Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 3Oct 04, 2010 7:53 pm Thanks for replying, Fu. The avatar photo is a bit deceptive! We're having a fair amount of the front garden mulched and about 50 m2 as turf. The pic below might give you a better idea, though because the block is quite elevated it is still somewhat deceptive. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I probably should have mentioned that neither my OH or I are big on flowers. Hoping to have a fairly modern/contemporary garden that matches the house. New beginnings. Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 4Oct 04, 2010 8:16 pm OK Do a buffalo or EZ front section if you feel the need for turf. Alternatively, use Grevillea Gin Gin Gem and mow it a few times a year and it looks like lawn but better That tree is stuffed even if it gets staked, the roots are most likely knackered. Over it goes in ten years or less even. I'd rip it out but replace it with a well Grown Eucalyptus platypus You'll love it The rest has my brain ticking over I am thinking at this point, two Vibernum, Emerald Lustres in the very corner of the paving opposite the support wall for the garage and the other on the far left of the shot. They will grow up to 3m where you are and they should look leafy and make a nice feature tree if pruned to shape as they mature. Lets look at maybe a few clumps of mass planted Lomandra and also dianella emerald arch in separate beds. Have a mulched path way between them. That grey wall needs something structural against it Dracaena maginata would be great. There are some fantastic advanced examples around Maybe incorporate a grass tree into it. There is a sale coming up soon near your place of ones from the bush via replant $50 per tree I think they normally are I dunno just a few ideas to start some discussion off Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 5Oct 04, 2010 8:33 pm Fu Manchu Do a buffalo or EZ front section if you feel the need for turf. Alternatively, use Grevillea Gin Gin Gem and mow it a few times a year and it looks like lawn but better That tree is stuffed even if it gets staked, the roots are most likely knackered. Over it goes in ten years or less even. I'd rip it out but replace it with a well Grown Eucalyptus platypus You'll love it Yeah we're going for Palmetto buffalo grass. No way would I have that couch crap! Council told me we're not allowed to remove the tree! Do you reckon they'd come to the same conclusion as you if they came out to look at it? New beginnings. Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 6Oct 04, 2010 8:46 pm Seriously they would not care if you swapped it. If the council won't let you do anything. Get them to replace the tree It is not in a healthy state. It has been poorly grown, skinny trunk, weak roots, top heavy. It can be re staked but it will just end up going over in time to come. Get them to pay for it Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 7Oct 04, 2010 10:18 pm Id tell council it was destroyed during construction and died Your frontage is gorgeous locus, but have nothing constructive to add, especially since the great Fu has spoken! my new build thread- Ben Trager https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89826 my switch build thread (2011) https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=36569 Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 8Oct 04, 2010 10:33 pm Nothing great about me. I am just one of many who know what I know and more.... Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 9Oct 05, 2010 12:41 am You could always coppice the gum http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1653925.htm To coppice a eucalyptus, cut back the trunk or branches to 5-7.5cm (2-3in) above the ground I went outside once. The graphics were alright, but the gameplay sucked! Settlement:22nd June Slab:27th August Frame:16th Sept Bricked:21st Oct Roof:24th Nov Linings HANDOVER23rd March! Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 11Oct 05, 2010 2:48 pm Something just occurred to me. When I was looking at our plans last night, I noticed that where the verge tree is marked out on the plans is actually just inside the boundary of our land, and not on the council side. Since the tree is on our property, does that mean we can just remove it anyway? New beginnings. Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 12Oct 06, 2010 12:26 am Yep...if it is on your property You would have been given the generic council answer earlier. How would they know that exact tree? Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 13Oct 06, 2010 12:30 am They regulate trees for a few reasons. Councils now have to plant a certain amount of trees in new areas like yours. This is for enviro reasons and also to make the place look pretty. Now if people start ripping them out, that buggers what they are doing. If they rip them out and replace with a tree that will cause "issues" and stuffs the suburbs look they are after, then that creates issues and ultimately costs them and you money in one form or another. This is why making a good tree selection and discussing with your council's parks and gardens supervisor as too what is an informed suitable alternative is often doable unless they are jerks Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 14Oct 12, 2010 11:30 am Council have been out to look at the tree. The guy I spoke to said he is reluctant to stake it, and will instead get someone to balance out the branches so there aren't so many on the driveway side. Clearly they take a different view to you, Fu! New beginnings. Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 15Oct 13, 2010 12:32 am I would be reluctant to stake it also. I think I mentioned that if you stake it, it will just go over in time to come... years away. He is right on the money to start shaping it. They may take some of the upper branches away to lower the centre of gravity. Although, the costs of clipping and prunning the tree to shape over coming years (it won't be a one of thing and you'll need council to return each year) They may as well rip it out and start again. The tree has little hope as it has gone over because it has poor root structure, so that will be unlikely to change and will fall over in 15 years or so. Anyway, just entertain them and then in a few years when no one cares get a mate to back over it with a 4wd and Ooops! It needs replacing Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 16Nov 20, 2010 3:53 pm The council came out some time ago and evened out the tree a little, however in the past couple of weeks it has started looking a bit crook. The leaves have started to dry out and fall off and it looks like the tree is dying. There are some pretty deep scratches on the trunk from where the cats have been using it as a scratching post, is it possible that this is the cause? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ It has been getting plenty of water as we've had a water restriction exemption to get the lawn and garden established. New beginnings. Re: Front garden - help with plant selection 18Nov 21, 2010 7:30 pm Try find them at the moment though, Keen. I told you the tree was stuffed. It is about the roots, not the bark. Cats scratching will do diddley squat. 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