Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Oct 03, 2009 11:10 pm viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 2Oct 03, 2009 11:18 pm Cordy red fountain will burn and look nearly dead by the end of summer. The phormium tenax will do fine, just a plain green flax that one. Chief will bleach and burn by the end of summer, it has a good chance of looking like poo. The lomandra tanika and manderin will be fine. An excellent choice too but personally i prefer Oroval or honey murcot. Much yummier Both are readily available. http://www.watercorporation.com.au/W/wa ... _index.cfm This is the list that landscapers must work from in order to maintain the waterwise standards set by the water corp. and the landscape industry. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 3Oct 03, 2009 11:25 pm Great. I can see them all being dead before I've been there a year. *sigh* viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 4Oct 03, 2009 11:39 pm no no, just two of the plants will go crappy by summers end. Pretty unreliable here in WA. Much tougher over east. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 5Oct 03, 2009 11:54 pm Well... two out of four ain't bad!!! LOL viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 6Oct 04, 2009 12:24 am The estate could at least offer up plants that are suitable to teh conditions!! Csan you claim back the purchase price of the deaths you will have? *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 7Oct 04, 2009 11:33 am Manda The estate could at least offer up plants that are suitable to teh conditions!! Csan you claim back the purchase price of the deaths you will have? Don't know about that Manda!!! We'll see how they go... we'll practically be back into Winter again by the time they get planted, so maybe that'll give them plenty of time to get established prior to Summer rolling back around again! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 8Oct 04, 2009 8:25 pm No you won't be able to Manda. Those are the luxuries of retail garden centres (and not all). Landscapers doing house and land packages are doing a tough job. Overall the objective is to provide a cheap finished look so home values to whole estates remain reasonable. Not everyone is a landscape architect and not everyone gives a stuff about the garden. This avoids the senario of decades ago when new homes would just have bare earth and weeds for years and years after completion. This reduces home values. Then there is the scale they do them on. They need to smash down 9 gardens a day in many cases to make any coin. They also need a very large volume of plants so as a result they get what they can and negotiate the price, then hold them in their own nurseries. they are added to the selection catalogues and used in the gardens they do. I am sure if you had an excellent knowledge of plants and industry experience they would be happy to work with you on it. As would the council Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 9Oct 04, 2009 9:07 pm Fu Manchu I am sure if you had an excellent knowledge of plants and industry experience they would be happy to work with you on it. As would the council Unfortunately this is not me *sigh* But thats ok. I'm just happy that they'll be planting and doing the lawn as well. The Dalyellup/Satterley group use the services of a landscaping company... the name of which escapes me (which is funny, as i see them everyday doing landscaping!!!) viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 11Oct 04, 2009 10:16 pm I am starting to get scared about my landscape package. I want a happy garden that is established correctly from the start... that way it won't complain and look dead all the time. I know my across the street neighbour put in sir walter and told the landscape people that he wasn't taking little crap plants. He has a lovely simple garden now that looks great. Not sure how much extra he had to pay! I guess by the time things die our money trees from building a new house would have had time to recover. *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 12Oct 04, 2009 10:31 pm http://www.watercorporation.com.au/W/wa ... ardens.cfm http://www.greatgardens.info/Whathappen ... ardens.php local plants guides http://www.sercul.org.au/fertilise_wise.html WA plant selection guide. http://www.watercorporation.com.au/W/wa ... -2997-2837 visit this nursery for some of the best info you can get in a garden centre. The team there have to sit a test just to work there http://www.zanthorrea.com/ http://www.zanthorrea.com/info.php Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 13Oct 04, 2009 10:32 pm Fu Manchu LD's Landscape Developers!! Sheesh your good Manda - so we can ask the landscapers to do something a bit different?? I'm actually quite fond of roses... and want to have them in my yard... viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 14Oct 04, 2009 10:37 pm make sure you buy roses on WA root stock. The eastern States rubbish is cheaper but will last a few years at best in our soils. Choose WA Fortuniana root stock and it will last 100 years Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 15Oct 04, 2009 10:43 pm Fu Manchu make sure you buy roses on WA root stock. The eastern States rubbish is cheaper but will last a few years at best in our soils. Choose WA Fortuniana root stock and it will last 100 years Can I buy that from Bunnings or nurseries here then? Does it say on its packaging that its WA Fortuniana root stock? what exactly is that?? viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 16Oct 04, 2009 10:52 pm Well every decent nursery selling roses in WA sells fortuniana rootstock roses. many sell only that. When you look at the pots they must say somewhere on there that it is WA rootstock Fortuniana. Many will say it is rubbish to have roses on that root stock but have a guess what they saved some money on? Rootstock from the Eastern States many make good coin from selling cheap roses but I am more concerned with you buying a good rose, not a cheap one Bagged roses are a no-no here too Normally Eastern States roses are sold on "Dr Huey" rootstock. This is not that resistant to WA soil bound diseases and pathogens. Fortuniana has been used here for a long time with tremendous success. You buy the same varieties as you may have come to know but it is stuck onto a root stock. Chose a the WA rootstock Eg. An iceburg on WA rootstock will live 20 or 30 times longer than an iceburg on Dr huey eastern states root stock. That is worth the extra 2 or 3 dollars you pay Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 17Oct 04, 2009 11:07 pm I am not sure what went down between the landscapers and the neighbour but i hope to get the same deal. It can't hurt to ask about getting what you want... was there a clause that said you were only allowed to have couch and pick from three plants? *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Plant/Tree Help!! 18Oct 04, 2009 11:11 pm Thanks Fu!!! HUGELY appreciated When the time comes i'll now know what to look for. Excellent Manda - It didn't really say much in my contract about the landscaping actually!! I think i'll pop into the Land Developers office tomorrow (they're the ones who sold the land with the landscaping package - house build within the year kind of thing) and ask them whether I get a choice on whats used. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. 0 4734 Hello. I just bought a few acres in Habana, Mackay, and my horses seem to love hanging around under this tree. I would like to name the paddock after this tree. Can… 0 9543 |