Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Apr 10, 2014 3:21 pm Firstly, hello all! First post! Ok so me and the wife recently bought ourselves a block in Nagambie (1.25 hours north of melb). Nice 850squares. We are putting a house on it end of the year. The gardens have been left up to me. Over the years Ive been propagating quite a few green yukkas like this; http://www.hellohello.com.au/wp-content ... -19.90.jpg and Cordyline 'red sensation' like this; http://www.ilandscape.com.au/image/cach ... 00x250.jpg I have quite a few in pots in different sizes. I'm talking... 30+ pots ranging from 30cm to a few yukkas and Cordyline's at 1.5m. Now to save money after the build, I'd be MAD not to use these plants as the basis of my front and rear garden. I don't want to be one of those brand new houses with no landscaping because we spent all the money on the build with nothing left for plants! Look, I know these plants have been DONE TO DEATH, but I think with some cleaver planting they can still look good and fit a modern house/garden. So, sorry for the back information, now on to the real questions! What else would go well with these plants? Obviously what I have is vibrant dark green and dark burgundy red. I'd like to inject some extra colour or something in there too? Maybe something flowering? But I'd need something that meshes well with these plants and wouldn't look out of place with them. Also, would what I have go alright as screening plants up against the rear and side fences in the back garden? Central Vic gets a lot less rain than Melbourne so recommended plants would need to be pretty hardy too. Links to plants so I could check them out would be great if you can! And lastly, anyone have links to houses using these plants well for inspiration? Thanks in advance! Ryan Re: What other plants would work well in this situation? 2Apr 11, 2014 2:28 pm Both your plants have strappy leaves, so you could look for foliage with contrasting leaf shape, something like nandina, which has green and red in the leaves. I have it in my garden alongside the red cordylines. One thing I like about nandinas, is they self-seed from the red berries so you get extra free plants. Photinia makes a hardy hedge plant for covering fences, and again it is easily propagated, from cuttings. It has green leaves with the new growth being red or coppery. Re: What other plants would work well in this situation? 3May 02, 2014 9:22 pm Hi Rex Our neighbours have the usual yucca/cordyline front garden which they planted from scratch in an existing unimaginative long rectangular garden bed. The results of their work are quite amazing. They inter-planted a variety of different cordylines (cordyline Dr Brown, green and red standard cordylines), a couple of small sized palms, bromelaids, liriopes (which look particularly good against the strappy cordylines), oyster plant. Good luck! Re: What other plants would work well in this situation? 4May 22, 2014 8:53 pm What about cannas, the variegated leaf varieties? Portulaca as ground cover would fit into the mix quite well too. You might be able to apply to divert the sewer at your expense. In NSW you would contact a Water services co-ordinator and they would give you advice as to whether or not… 1 16146 It's possible but a soak well is usually much larger. Your 'soak well' only holds 424 litres when full. What is your soil type? Soak wells need sandy soils. 10 9009 Finally got the Soakwell at my house sucked out. Now I’m looking for ideas on how to hide it as it’s a bit of an eye sore. I’m thinking I’d like to turf over the… 0 3273 |