This week I have been walking my daughter
to and from school. On the way I was pleasantly surprised to discover some
great inspiration for our garden. We have wanted to do our garden for some
time. I wanted a mix of tropical and edible plants. We want plants in the front
to reduce the size of the lawn as it takes quite a while to mow and a front
garden would look much nicer than the big stretch of lawn we currently have.
I have been growing a few things from seed
such as carrots, herbs and strawberries to have in our back yard and I wanted
to do something practical but pretty with our front yard.
Since I don’t plan on staying here long
term I also did not want to invest a lot of money into it and not really reap
the rewards of my efforts.
Today I saw this:
I know the picture is not fantastic but it
is a LillyPilly hedge (fast growing, edible berries and great for screening),
with bilberry bushes in front, followed by gardenia’s. I love that there are 2
native berry bushes, the leaves are thick and while it is not tropical like I
wanted, it blends really nicely with the area.
Another thing that surprised me as I was
walking around was the amount of people who have fruit trees in their front
yard. It makes sense because you don’t want to waste the space, but I was
always worried about fruit being pinched. As you can see here it doesn’t seem
to be a problem.
This house actually had 4 orange trees and
a few houses down was another house with apple trees out the front. All the
trees were fruiting, yet still full.
I saw, but didn’t get a picture of a garden
lay out I like which could incorporate all aspects of the above and a bit of
the tropical look I would like. It also had some plants in pots, which would be
easy to move.
My mind is now buzzing with ideas of what I
could do to make the yard inviting, but practical and useful. What do you have
in your garden?
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