Small subtropical garden for this grand cluster home
The Brief: To design and implement a lush evergreen garden with palm trees and colourful flowers in predominantly pinks, purples and blues.
The Project: Involved leveling and laying topsoil and compost and removing quite a lot of building rubble which is typical when tackling a new home's garden. An 5-station eletronic irrigation system was installed complete with rain sensor. The irrigation system was particularly challenging as we had to lay conduits under the paving and through walls to water the whole garden running around the house. To create an instant garden topiaries were used to create height and two 10m tall Stelizias were lifted over the 4m retaining wall and into the garden.
The Plants: Some of the plants used included:
- Wild Banana - Strelizia nicolaii
- Cocos / Queen Palm - Syagrus romanzoffiana
- Australian Tree Fern - Cyathea australis
- Iceberg Roses - Rosa 'Iceberg'
- Purple Solanum Standards - Solanum rantonetti
- Pink Gaura - Gaura siskiyou
- Japanese Spindle - Euonymus japonicus 'Ovatus Aureus'
- Duranta sapphire showers
- Pink mallow - Anisodontea scabrosa
- Common Agapanthus - Agapanthus praecox
- Weeping Anthericum - Anthericum saundersia
- Japanese cycad / Sago Palm - Cycas revoluta
- Philodendron - Philodendron selloum
- Verbena - Verbena peruviana
- Hen and Chicken - Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum'
- Carpet Geranium - Geranium incarnum
- Mondo grass - Ophiopogon jaburan
- Ground convolvulus - Convolvulus mauritanicus
- Madagascar Spur Flower - Plectranthus madagascarensis
- Erigeron - Erigeron Karrvinskianus
- Wild Scabiosa - Scabiosa columbara
| Before Garden Implementation | Click to enlarge |
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| 3 Months After Implementation | |
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