Hi

I finally got someone in to fix the retic in my enclosed garden today. The
soil is in bad shape, it's grey sand & is water repellant, & the garden is
in a position where it gets a little direct sunlight on summer mornings & no
direct sunlight the rest of the year.

I started today by cleaning out the leaf litter & bricks, attacking the soil
with soil wetter & tomorrow will dig composted mulch and a mix of different
animal poos into the soil. I might put the mostly well composted leaf litter
back on top once this is done... not sure yet.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the kinds of plants that might do
well in the garden? It's already got a couple of medium sized umbrella trees
but that's it. Because this garden is visible from the bath, I would
eventually like to put some lights in the garden & so I guess some nice
looking foliage would be the go... I was thinking of maybe some Clivia or
fishbone ferns in the front to cover the view of the paving...

How would grasses & Yucca go in this kind of environment? I'm not all that
fussed about flowers & leafy green foliage.

--
Wanda
aka Willow
The missing and definitely not to be taken seriously under any circumstances
garden gnome
http://www.2000cn.com.au/~willow

~~faeries are able to fly because they take themselves lightly~