Decided it was time to take some "in progress" photos of my yard.
There’s still a bit more mulch to put down to widen the area along the back and many plants to go in, but I think it looks much better just having a laid out garden bed instead of just bad quality grass right to the edges. It will be great when I finally have some proper plant growth too.
I’m not allowed trees unfortunately, the landlord put a 2m height limit. Which is a pity, I would have loved to do a dwarf gum tree. Fortunately there are quite a few good habitat trees in the estate and they are doing native planting in parks around those so there is a decent amount of canopy trees around, along with nature strip trees. I’ve got a couple of dwarf citrus which will fit within the height limit (depending on which references you look at!)
I’m doing natives all down one side, including a wattle, callistemon and (if I can get it to grow) a banksia. Then a mix of smaller shrubs and groundcovers. Lots of things to provide food and habitat for birds and also for bees.
Bottlebrush makes a nice big bush after a few years, brings birds. I’ve got a tea tree from a friends citizenship ceremony that’s about 2m as well. I can track down the specific if you want.
Decided it was time to take some "in progress" photos of my yard.
There’s still a bit more mulch to put down to widen the area along the back and many plants to go in, but I think it looks much better just having a laid out garden bed instead of just bad quality grass right to the edges. It will be great when I finally have some proper plant growth too.
that looks like it’s going to be awesome
Do you have many trees planned?
I’m not allowed trees unfortunately, the landlord put a 2m height limit. Which is a pity, I would have loved to do a dwarf gum tree. Fortunately there are quite a few good habitat trees in the estate and they are doing native planting in parks around those so there is a decent amount of canopy trees around, along with nature strip trees. I’ve got a couple of dwarf citrus which will fit within the height limit (depending on which references you look at!)
I’m doing natives all down one side, including a wattle, callistemon and (if I can get it to grow) a banksia. Then a mix of smaller shrubs and groundcovers. Lots of things to provide food and habitat for birds and also for bees.
Bottlebrush makes a nice big bush after a few years, brings birds. I’ve got a tea tree from a friends citizenship ceremony that’s about 2m as well. I can track down the specific if you want.
I think I’ve got as many plants as the garden can handle already! I did order a smaller tea tree that has beautiful red flowers.