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"FlowerGirl" wrote:

ON my *want it* list a
Eucalyptus "Summer Glory"
Some more kangaroo paws
another Banksia (not sure which one I want yet ... I have "birthday
candles"
in on the top of one of the retaining walls so might get a few more of
those
to dot through the front garden. ... but I also want an upright form as
well).

Perhaps another form of Banksia spinulosa, then?

Maybe .... I can't plant one where I want it yet (DH has some major digging
and backfilling to do!) so I've got a while to think it over.

A Waratah ... when I get some feedback on the best one for my area (none
of
the new ones around here yet).
More herbs to replace those dying in the herb garden. Even the mint is
doing it tough under the current water restrictions.

Instead I've been removing the revolting mock orange and bauhinia trees
from
the side garden.

LOL, which mock orange are they? Murraya paniculata, with the cloying
scent?
That's the sucker

But I rather like bauhinias; just not enough to plant one.
One is gone, the other remains. There are just 20 other plants I'd rather
have in the garden ... we've only got 913 m2!

Actually, we were looking at photos from when we moved in and consoling
ourselves that while the garden isn't quite how we want it, it is just
*so*
much better than when we moved in 5 years ago ... no more snake weed or
dutchman's pipe, several bauhinias, mock oranges and frangipannis down,
'Neville' the concrete cherub / bird bath was destroyed with glee and a
newer, more subtle bird bath installed, many lovely native plants added
to

LOL -- any pictures of Neville around?

No! He was really hideous....and he was leaky. We put up with him for a
while, but unfortunately DH 'leant' on him one day and he crumbled. What
set him apart from other cherubs holding large bowls and masquerading bird
baths, was the slight problem he encountered when he was cast, where a bit
of concrete escaped and dribbled out of his bottom and down his leg ... a
really lovely addition!


make a *garden* (as opposed to the ADD planting style / weed farm of the
previous owner, and two of the three retaining walls transformed from
grey
besser brick to terracotta render. The "to do list" still seems long,
but
the garden is no longer an eyesore.

Mine will take another 30 years or so... :-)

Isn't that what they're supposed to do??

Amanda