Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 89Dec 19, 2016 8:36 pm In love with your big garden, and wow very productive vege patch too. You have more apples than I do ( have three on my little tree) After following many landscaping on H1 and reading your thread... I cannot wait to get my hands on my site and start digging. When do you start the deck and how long will it take to finish. viewtopic.php?=31&t=81624 Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 90Dec 19, 2016 8:48 pm The deck doesn't start till January. We've waited this long... I love the idea of a productive garden... and the photos are from our 'front' yard. Benefits of having a battleaxe block! Our back yard will just be the deck pretty much (there is 'ground' level but that won't be anything at this stage). And the courtyard is more growing space with plans of a vertical garden. I have all my vertical garden pots... just need to build a structure for them -- the idea is to do an aquaponics system so we have a bit of a fish pond in the courtyard. I'm actually not sure what I'll do with all the vege gardens! It's only two of us. And I'll have eggs when we have chickens. I think I need to become more vegetarian. Shazw - You already have lots of pots in your townhouse... you'll just have to wait your turn for 'real' gardening. Oh and I bought a bunch of Chilean Guava plants which I'll get into the courtyard in front of the bamboo to create a bit of a hedge that smells nice. Should fruit in a few years. Dang things take a long time to grow Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 91Dec 19, 2016 10:11 pm Take chicken eggs to your office and sell them. My hubby buy duck eggs from his work mate...totally organic. As for vege eat what you can, your family and friends will love to pick some things as they visit you. I really enjoyed watching other people picking chillies and silverbeet leaves from my garden. Also using the fresh lettuce from the garden for BBQ meat wrap... I have a guava tree ( large green variety ) so far only fruited once. This week I tried plums from my garden... its was too sour. viewtopic.php?=31&t=81624 Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 92Jan 27, 2017 10:44 am Our front yard is getting there. Repositioned the garden beds and have ordered vermiculite, peat moss and compost for them. Chickens may have to wait till we are back from our trip in April... Maybe. (I may get impatient and just get them and get a chicken minder!) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Between garden beds will be our old pavers we had in the old house with pockets of my Korean grass. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 93Jan 27, 2017 12:32 pm yvonneh Our front yard is getting there. Repositioned the garden beds and have ordered vermiculite, peat moss and compost for them. Chickens may have to wait till we are back from our trip in April... Maybe. (I may get impatient and just get them and get a chicken minder!) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Between garden beds will be our old pavers we had in the old house with pockets of my Korean grass. Cute little chicken coup. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 96Mar 15, 2017 11:13 am Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 98Mar 27, 2017 4:44 am We finally had some good weather so managed to get the oiling done. After cleaning with Napisan and Oxalic acid to get rid of mould ? Before and after oiling yesterday Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ So satisfying to do. We've decided to try and oil at around daylight savings changeovers. Every 6 months. Let's see how long we are good for! We used Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Which is an oil (not water based) which means more maintenance required. Re: Landscaping a new house (Sydney) 99Mar 27, 2017 8:09 pm Great looking deck a lick of oil really enrich the natural colour of timber. Such a good idea using Napisan for cleaning deck. Build Thread : viewtopic.php?=31&t=81624 Yes, I was happy with the work, bar a few small things. Overall, communication could have been better though. However, I found them reliable and did good work at a… 4 62826 0 5230 No idea about the driveway question, but your price for a house that size including landscaping seems very good! 1 6467 |