The New Garden: Dreams & Plans - Page 2© Lynda Jardinet
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Jul 19, 1999
So where to start? We got out the paintbrushes today and painted the front fence black. Black looks great with bright green foliage and I'm planning to commandeer the front
verge from the council. My ideas keep changing but at this stage here's what I'm hoping to create. Passionfruit vines will be espaliered up each end of the front fence (there's a
planting gap of about 15 centimetres between the fence and the footpath) and then along the top. I think I'll then plant agapanthus right along the bottom - the sky-blue flowers
will be stunning against a background of black, and I can get the plants for free because they grow wild along the roadside in front of my parents' home. In the middle of the fence, between the passionfruit and the agapanthus, I want to use sculpture. I've bought some antique-look concrete garden edgings and I'm going to paint them and hang them randomly along the fence. Here's hoping no-one pinches them - if they do I'll
have to rethink this plan.
On the council verge, depending if I'm successful in battling the bureaucrats, I want to plant something green and lush (current favourite, either the native puka or karaka), with
a row of olive trees in the middle and a low hebe hedge right around the verge. I don't want to spend too much time weeding or watering on the roadside, so I think I'll fill the
bed with grey river stones, those wonderful shapely rocks. Wish me luck with the council - I'm calling them tomorrow to beg for permission. I'm also going to douse the entire section with Roundup and as the grass dies, I'll design my garden. Oh, it's going to be fun!
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First, Carol - black fences look fantastic. Never mind the fried plants!! Actually, I think our black fence had a lot to do with the productive passionfruit at our last garden, because it seems to cre ...
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on your new garden. It must be a very exciting time for you. I love the challenge of a blank site, which is what I had when I started my garden two and a half years ago. The only existing garden pl ...
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Lynda,Pre the country garden, we owned a seaside cottage and we creosoted [sp?] both the cottage and fences A few "aggies" were planted, in the sandy soil with the river water not far below the su ...
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I never enjoy battling with bureaucrats! But it would be great if they let you do something beautiful.But BLACK?? Won't that absorb the heat and fry the plants? (It's my favorite color, but I've n ...
-- posted by CarolWallace
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