Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Screens with flowers 2Aug 25, 2008 9:18 pm Do you mean Pittosporum silver sheen? Gets scale lots anyway
what is your location? soil types? is it a sunny spot? how high do you want it to grow? How wide will it be clipped? Re: Screens with flowers 3Aug 26, 2008 9:06 am I want it to be about 2 m, location in point cook, Vic. It is sunny when there is sun at all, judging from Melb's current winter weather and preferably about 1m in width I guess . Is that norm? Unsure about the soil type though, could be dry and coastal.. Re: Screens with flowers 4Aug 26, 2008 11:14 am Point Cook are heavy basaltic clays....last house was in Point Cook and I established a garden there.
I know you said "preferably with flowers" but I'll share what worked for me in that area. I had success with Pittosporum Tenuifolium 'Lime Light' as a screen at the front (western facing front garden coping cold southerlies and hot northerlies) it has variegated green leaves. Did have issues with aphids early on - when they were establishing - but I companion planted with garlic chives and that got rid of the aphids. So pittos one metre apart and a garlic chive in between. Once they were mature they were able to cope with the aphids. The light green veriegation gave it some interest. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ At the back I had success with the "Neighbours-Be-Gone"....or Lilly Pilly on a west facing fence. http://www.hellohello.com.au/begone.html Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ You can keep both of these clipped to about 1 metre. The pittos were sourced from All Green Nursery and Hello Hello at Hoppers Crossing, the Neighbours Be Gone can be sourced from Wombat Gully in Campbellfield. Another shrub that worked well was Ceanothus papillosus roweanus marketted as "Pacific Blue" has a very showy blue flower in spring to summer....pretty care free plant Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ But you'll have to work to get some organics into that clay soil...avoid anything that is intolerant of wet feet. mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: Screens with flowers 5Aug 26, 2008 11:21 am I am very familiar with the soil type there having grown up in Werribee
Maybe think about Murraya Paniculata. Not sure how well it would do in the cold of your winter (when you gets frosts) but it does well here in winter. keep a wonderful tubouchina clipped up into a hedge. Vibernum emerald lustre will be a good one and handle being clipped to that shape and size. Most Metrosideros varieties would respond well to be clipped to that shape and size. polygala graniflora with its vibrant purple flowers. lillypilly varieties like Bush Christmas, elegance,bush cherry, Aussie boomer and orange twist. Maybe Camellias or gardenias like augusta. Another plant I have seen used as an excellent hedge is the small tree fraxinus griffithii. It will need to be kept trimed for sure though and when it gets really cold out your way it might drop a few leaves. Duranta Geisha girl. Michellias or port wine magnolias would be awesome and give you lots of lovely smelly flowers. for the soil, add things high in humic acids like powerfeed or add humus rich soils to help break up the clay soils i so dearly miss Gypsum will also help but will be outperformed by humic rich products. Re: Screens with flowers 7Aug 26, 2008 2:04 pm jcestmoi How about having rosemary as a shrub at the pathway? Good suggestion.....ordinarily tough and the native variety has a nice flower, and you get the aromas released when you brush past. Again had success with both in Point Cook. Actually planted them together so they kind of intertwined....you had the strong fragrance of the normal rosemary combining with the flowering and softer leaf structure of the native.....the native rosemary also attracted the native bees....a smaller bee which I think is stingless. Westringia Fruticosa - Native Rosemary Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: Screens with flowers 9Aug 26, 2008 2:04 pm Great minds..... mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: Screens with flowers 13Aug 26, 2008 10:36 pm It is said that rosemary at the entrance or front of a house means the woman rules the household anyone else heard that? ....
on second thoughts the ladies will say that is just how it is anyway ... crap i have used Correa dusky bells to great effect before as a low clipped boarder hedge. Loads of bird attracting flowers too. Dodonaea (purple hop bush) These are a good all rounder too. Easy to grow, fairly fast and lovely pink flowers on most varieties sold in nurseries, though other colour flowers are less common. http://www.cradocnursery.com.au/plants/ ... urea.shtml I like rosemary benedens blue best. Its thinner leaves look good in a formal hedge and look softer and more inviting. Re: Screens with flowers 14Aug 27, 2008 8:25 am Now i'm all keen on Rosemary hahaha. But there seems to be so many varieties. Can we have them mixed? What's the general difference between the beneden blue and blue lagoons? How about the pink majorca? Thought having them mixed will look quite nice haha
Am thinking of using the pacific blue for the hedge in the garden... Never heard about women ruling the house with rosemary at the entrance! Re: Screens with flowers 15Aug 27, 2008 8:33 pm The blue lagoon is a variety I hate with a passion but lots of folks like it. i think they grow into a rambling mess. The Benedon blue is stately and has strong upright growth. Tuscan blue is another stately upright grower with thicker leaves and a pale underside to them. pink Majorca is to me another variety that grows into a rambley mess with pretty pink flowers that's all it has going for it but you may like them.
My choice would be the Benedons blue Re: Screens with flowers 16Aug 30, 2008 8:51 pm Went to all green today and was told that pacific blue is only available in spring (not sure when in Spring). There goes my options for a hedge. Had wanted to get it plant by next weekend.
They also only has the Rosamarinus Officinalis which produce the blue flowers. When I enquire abt Benedon or tuscan, the person there seems do not know about that. Will try and check out the other nurseries around the area. we have this edge at the front of the house that separates between what's private and what's public and was thinking abt using lavenders. Didn't know that there is so many varieties until today. Am looking at Violet Lace. Seems nice. Any idea if this is any good? Re: Screens with flowers 17Sep 01, 2008 12:34 am Yeah the Pacific Blue is generally realesed by wholesale nurseries when they come into flower. When that is will depend on the weather in your local area. or more to the point where they are grown
Officianallis is a messey old rosemary. The more refined Benedons and upright tuscan blue are the two single most grown varieties of rosemary. Blue lagoon is another messey yet somehow popular variety... yuck To get a rosemary hedge looking really good, start your clipping at a very young age of the plant. The younger and smaller the plant the better the result. So go for a 140mm pot. 200mm starts getting away from the size to correctly clip for lush growth on the sides as well as top of hedge. Re: Screens with flowers 18Sep 01, 2008 7:45 am Alot of the rosemary in the nursery are just named "rosemary" or "pink rosemary" as such. Still have not come across a tag that says Benedon Blue or Tuscan as such. Anyway, we have spoke to the person at the nursery and they claim that the rosemary that we saw grows up straight. So keep our fingers crossed.
As for the pacific blue, we have ordered some from the nursery. When we enquire about it, the person seems to be surprise... and very looking forward to have some one planting this as a hedge! Hopefully it can grow in point cook's type of soil plus the weather! Hi everyone. I am a single mother with little daughter, living in a small tourist town in WA Australia. I am thinking to install security screens to all the doors and… 0 22903 Building Standards; Getting It Right! We are building on a zero-lot. The first-floor windows on the zero-lot side is 1.2m away from the boundary. There are 3 windows on that side of the house in the first… 0 1190 |