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Planning:
With any new project, ask what the aim is: Do you want shade, beauty, colour, a windbreak? Clarence is aiming for a beautiful native plant patch to improve his garden biodiversity.
Cleaning up:
The first job is to clear any weeds, paying particular attention to any tough perennials with persistent rhizomes or bulbs, such as nutgrass; these should be put in a bag and left in the sun for a couple of weeks to kill them off completely.
Improve the soil:
Clarence builds up the new bed with some bought-in soil mix. He adds some sand as well because most native plants like a free-draining mix. Choose the soil to suit what you want to grow.
He rakes it into shape and tamps it down to form a solid base that is less likely to erode in heavy rain.
Planting:
Set the plants out – if you have a larger feature tree or plant, it’s best to place in the centre or ‘back’ of a bed, depending on how you will be looking at the finished bed.
When you’re happy, start planting. It’s best to start with the biggest plants, and position smaller shrubs and then groundcovers around them.
Give the plants a light mulch and water in well.
Featured Plants:
NUTGRASS – Cyperus rotundus
NATIVE FRANGIPANI – Hymenosporum flavum
KANGAROO PAW – Anigozanthos cv.
CUT-LEAFED DAISY – Brachyscome multifida ‘Mauve Delight’
NATIVE FUCHSIA – Correa ‘Dusky Bells’
BUSH MINT – Prostanthera ‘Purple Haze’
PAPER DAISY – Rhodanthe anthemoides ‘Southern Star’
Filmed on Dharawal Country | Wollongong, NSW
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7 Comments
I like how you water the mulch and plants, my mother does that 😂 please advise to water up close to the plant at the roots 😁👍
Loving these native vids. I've only started my native journey and the animals and bugs I'm seeing already is great! Can't wait to have a native food forest!
Dirty ditties? 😀 Helps me in the garden too.
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Happy to see bush mint. Our project was a front yard food forest. Which 90% of is exotic foods. Only in the last 6 months have we added native foods and they fit in well.
I like this man. He's so organic and wholesome.😁🌱🌾 A man of the earth.
Would love to know which of those planted are edible? Thanks!