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Hey Everyone.
Now with my deck project done and dusted, it's finally time to landscape our front garden.
We live on a corner block, so our front garden extends to meet our "back" garden, which is actually the side of the house and perpendicular to our front garden 🤔
Here are some before shots.
This one was before we did anything at all with the house:
These are the immediately before work started shots. Though I had already removed the lemon tree in front of the window as you can see with the orange flags to caution the hole. This is all the same area from different angles.
For reference as I write stuff out in future, the terminology I use will refer to the unfenced area in front of the window and entrance as the "Native Garden", the area behind the fence as the "Fairy Garden" and the area as a whole as the "Front Garden.
With that out of the way, I have had a Garden Design appointment with a nursery to work out the best plants and way forward.
This is a plan I made of the property last year, with addition of the nursery designers notes for plants and I added in some hedges
The left of the hedge near the entrance will be a Aussie native garden. (I may also add in an extra pathway through the middle), and on the right of the hedge is a forest themed fairy garden (for my wife and kids to enjoy). The two fruit trees provide a decent canopy, and the hedges once grown will prevent much light from filtering in, and thus will give a full forest feel.
And the planned list of plants with associated markings:
| Where | Location | Description |
| FG | A | Fatsia ‘Japanese Aralia’ 8″ Pot |
| FG | AB | Ajuga Reptans 'Burgundy Lace' 6" Pot |
| FG | CA | Ajuga Reptans Astropurpurea 'Bugleweed' 6" Pots |
| FG | PP | Beaucarnea 'Pony Tail Palm' 8" Pot |
| FG | BP | Alocasia macrorrhiza 'Giant Taro' 7'' Pot |
| FG | SC | Senecio cineraria Silver Dust 6" Pot |
| FG | PG | Loropetalum Plum Gorgeous 8" |
| FG | BM | Ophiopogon ‘Black’ Mondo Grass 6″ Pot |
| FG | SW | Ophiopogon 'Stripey White' 6" Pot |
| FG | J | Prunus ‘Subhirtella Alba’ Weeping Cherry 1.8m 20″ Pot |
| FG | AS | Cottage Assorted 8" |
| FG | AS | Hymenosporum flavum Native Frangipani 6" Pot |
| FG | C | Clivia Miniata Belgian Hybrid 6" |
| FG | M | Monstera adansonii 'Swiss Cheese Plant' 5/6" Pot |
| FG | D | Asplenium ‘Birds Nest Fern’ 8″ Pot |
| FG | M | Muehlenbeckia 'Maidenhair Creeper' 6" Pot |
| FG | T | Ligularia reniformis/Cremanthodium TRACTOR SEAT 7" pot |
| FG | F | Asparagus 'Foxtail Fern' 6" Pot |
| FG | G | Strelitzia nicolai 'Giant Bird of Paradise' 10'' Pot |
| FG | Along Fence | Parthenocissus ‘Boston Ivy’ 6′′ Pot |
| FG | Hedge entrance | Hardenbergia 'Free n Easy' PBR 6" Pot |
| FG | Hedge entrance | Hardenbergia ‘Happy Wanderer’ 6′′ Pot |
| NG | S | Grevillea 'Superb' 6'' Pot |
| NG | L | Callistemon 'Little Silver' PBR 7" Pot |
| NG | BC | Banksia 'Birthday Candles' 8" Pot |
| NG | D | Leptospermum ‘Dwarf Tea Tree Burgundy’ 6″ Pot |
| NG | C | Casuarina 'Cousin It' 8" Pot |
| NG | SB | Eremophila glabra 'Silver Ball' 6" Pot |
| NG | Not on Map | Pycnosorus globosus 'Billy Buttons' 6" Pot |
| NG | A | Acacia cognata 'Limelight' 6" Pot |
| NG | LD | Gastrolobium 'Lemon Drops' 'Yellow Pea Flower' 6" Pot |
| NG | DB | Correa reflexa 'Dusky Bells' 6" Pot |
| NG | SS | Grevillea 'Strawberry Smoothie' 6" pot |
| NG | LJ | Dianella 'Little Jess™' Flax Lily 6" Pot |
| NG | YG | Anigozanthos flavidus Kangaroo Paw 'Yellow Gem' 6" |
| NG | BB | Anigozanthos 'Bush Blitz™' Kangaroo Paw 6" Pot |
| NG | WS | Scaevola 'White' Fan Flower 6" Pot |
| NG | BS | Scaevola Purple Fusion 6"pot |
We'll also introduce a water feature, a concrete mushroom table and chairs set and some lighting. All posts for in time.
For now, wish me well on this long journey of hard perilous work, haha.
Regards
Itai
