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Posted by 0tterbot on April 22, 2007, 6:42 am
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>> I'm going tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing Peter Olde's garden...
>>
>> http://asgap.org.au/grevillea/
>
> And this is what I bought. I was hunting for ground covers and grasses:
>
> 1 Ajuga australis (Austral bugle)
what colour's it? i love ajuga. i'm going to get black ajuga when i next see
it. it's lovely.
down a bit...
> 2 Scleranthus biflorus -- forms a soft, thick, pale-green carpet
> 3 Poa labillardieri (Common tussock-grass) h 0.5-1.3m, s 0.5-1.5m
> 2 *Themeda triandra, prostrate form (Kangaroo grass) -- Blue-green,
> turning
> purple in autumn
> 1 Scaevola aemula white form (Fan-flower)
> 1 Arthropodium strictum (Chocolate lily) 1m
> 1 Lomandra glauca (Mat-rush) 0.3m x 0.3m
>
> And I've bought a few shrubs:
>
> 1 Babingtonia (formerly Baeckea) virgata dwarf -- I love the soft foliage
> and
> the tiny, scented flowers
> 1 Hymenosporum flavum 'Gold Nugget' (a native frangipani cultivar) --
> Trying
> again as the last one died due to too much afternoon sun! It has fragrant
> cream-to-gold flowers in spring-early summer and is rather more
> garden-sized
> than its parent at 1m x 1m
> Grevillea 'Pink Midget' -- to go under my pink-flowering bottle-brush
> Telopea 'Sugar Plum' 3m x 3m -- yeah, yeah, I know... they say these new
> cultivars are easier to grow...
> Allocasuarina grampiana 3m x 1.5m -- I love casuarinas, especially the
> sound
> they make in the wind, but the regular kind are too big for my garden.
> Thryptomene stenophylla h 0.7m -- another nice little shrub
> 3 Acacia cognata 'Limelight' -- lovely mop-top foliage
>
> We had a wander around Peter Olde's garden, and heard from all the usual
> suspects -- Don Burke, Angus Stewart, Merv Hodge et al -- very friendly
> sort
> of day. It was nice to see a few of us younger types with our kids too!
>
> Peter Olde's garden had the advantages that come with 30 acres. You can
> make
> any and all kinds of garden with that sort of space! I can't with my 822
> sq
> m, even though that is a large block by Sydney standards. Not that I'm
> bitter... much...
>
> The garden is young and at this point is a stroll garden of specimens.
> Its
> greatest strength is the variation of foliage seen in the beds, which make
> them enjoyable even at a time of year when many plants are not in flower,
> and
> simply the chance to see how various plants cope with basically no
> additional
> water. OTOH I didn't find it a very convincing garden in terms of design;
> the
> beds seem a bit plonked-down to me and the trees are stuck in the lawn a
> la
> Victorian specimen gardens. I'm more of the Edna Walling school of
> thought
> and prefer my trees and shrubs mixed together in beds, with clear lawns.
> But > maybe I'm just jealous...
maybe it's just a bad design & you're not at all jealous. :-) oh all right,
you are. ;-)
personally, i think trees in lawns looks tops!
but i'd want more in a garden than a bunch of stuff plonked in a lawn.
perhaps i am misunderstanding your description though.
kylie
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