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All the garden beds have different types of plants which have overgrown and become untidy.
This landscape is in tropical Nth Queensland, Australia
where do you live? here in florida, gingers are very good, as are all the llillies - canna, calla, louisiana & african. although technically not native, they are semi or full tropicals. also, plumeria (frangipangi or hawaiian lei flower) is good.
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How do I create visual depth with only a 2' wide planting area?
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The wall is 50' long and runs a long my pond. The top of the wall is chainlink fence the bottom is grey block. I want to block out my neighbor's house which is big, close by and orange :s.
I am creating a Japanese inspired garden. So I would be using plants like podocarpus, hydrangea vine and evergreen wisteria vine. I am open to any plant suggestions as well.
If I plant a few different things along the wall (different colors/textures) would it help to break it up? I only have 2 feet of planting area between the pond and wall. I am hoping to make it look like the edge of a forest.
I would love to use clumping bamboo but its to close to the pond liner and I am afraid it would pierce the liner. Also 2' wide is not enough space for a clumper, as far as I know.
Bluish foliage and blue or purple flowers give an illusion of more space and distance than you really have. You also need fine textured foliage. No broad bold leaves for this part of the garden. Hydrangea and wisteria are too course. A fine-textured ivy would be good. It cound attach itself to the grey block and then eventually twine itself between the chainlink fence. Fine ivies comes in various shapes and variegations which might provide some variation. To avoid drawing too much attention to the fence, do not plant them in any distinguishable pattern. A cool annual vine that can be bought on the internet is called Butterfly Pea. It has beautiful blue flowers. Another very fine-textured and attractive annual vine is Cypress Vine, but it has 1/2 inch red flowers, which may be too bold a color for this area. Carolina and Swamp Jessamine are American Native vines that have a medium to fine texture and yellow flowers. Swamp Jessamine blooms in spring and fall, and Carolina only in spring, but Carolina Jessamine is fragrant. One other scrambling plant that might work is the Climbing Aster, Aster carolinianus. It has a fine texture, and it is covered with excellent soft lavender 1" daisy-like flowers every fall.
Any help on internet or any site i can look at or yard pics so i can get an idea of what to do an the plants to get ...thanks..im wantin a little pond and gazebo and along my house to be planted with something ..so help please...
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Try this design trick. Stand at the places where you will be viewing the area (ie the kitchen window, your patio, the approach or front of your house), and take panoramic photos. You can accomplish this by overlapping the photos and taping them together on the back. If your camera is auto focus, focus on the center of the focal area, push the button down 1/2 way, move to the next shot, then push the button the rest of the way. This will keep the focus from changing in each view. You can draw on your photos with dry-erase markers and wipe off. Try different shapes for shrubs and trees and bed lines, draw in the other features you want. Once you have the shapes you want, and an account of the sun exposure, take the info and photos to a garden center to match them to the plants. Good luck!
after finishing college i am planning to move into a condo in Sibiu, Romania pernamently. i am not goining to be on the first floor for sure. i am a fish hobbiest and have always wanted a pond in my backyard but cuz i am going to live in the city and in a condo, i was wondering what about a indoor pond? i have seen them before, not anything too big that might break a floor, but somthing like these
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i am gonna get permission and all that, but do u think its pracitcal on not ground level floor and one that im considering is the bar-pond in one of the pictures
Great idea, love the bar thing.
Most of the indoor pools are made with preforms and plastic rocks with a covering of real rock to make it all look heavy and "real"
Plastic preforms enclosed with a thin layer of rocks (like your first one) on second floors are great for two reasons, light weight and easy to move when you do.
Wonderfull idea and I say go for the bar pond. Send pictures when you are done!
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