Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Appropriate turf for Melbourne 39Oct 14, 2009 10:45 pm your points about growers flogging what is cheap to produce at the expense of what is best to sell or was it what they have loads of is right on the money. No doubt you will have searched many of my posts and you would see that that is a point i bring up on not just turf varieties but plants too. The public won't be aware of deals or advertising dollars paid to garden shows to promote certain plants or create a public interest in a certain plant so garden centres start ordering or buying. I am an avid weather buff and year after year i now watch summer storms approach our metro area from the North in summer watch them just vaporise as they reach the metro area. The radar shows it really well. The force field we call it, but as you would know heat soak is a major cause of microclimate change for our cities and paving and Mc mansions contribute to that. All this synthetic turf and paving holds so much heat that it is stopping valuable summer rainfall in metro areas, of course some more than others. As for travelling around to different growers, well I do the same for landscapes and nurseries when ever I go anywhere parks and gardens, garden centres wholesale nurseries etc The scope for learning is much greater I guess by doing that. Re: Appropriate turf for Melbourne 40Nov 05, 2009 6:53 am Righto, I have finally got some empire on order to lay next wenesday now i have some time. I have decided to go with a small patch and see how it goes through summer to summer and then look at doing the rest next year. Plus i don't have enough tanks to do much more. Looking foward to the fun soil prep. Funnily when i was speaking to the turf guy he had never sold any zoysia, and his recommendation for Melb was kikuyu, buffalo/couch browned off/too slow out of dormancy in melb suburbs. Pretty much exactly what i see in the houses near me. He is getting a few rolls in with my order to check out how they go as well. Will update in a week. They using concrete or timber sleepers? Timber or steel uprights? Any drainage behind sleeper? 3 6293 I do enjoy the drama:-D In his latest two videos he has started bringing security guards to site, I am waiting for the punch on to begin lol 6 46264 It's all about wireless, self install now. The cost/benefit of wired setups for the house are no longer what they used to be. Lots of wireless options. Eufy, Arlo and… 2 10069 |