>>2959649Nice. You leaving the circles empty or filling them with other stuff?
>>2959840Will plant them out with other native Australian plants and grasses
>>2959649What is it?
>>2959649Sorry but that looks like a huge mistake and a waste of the space to me.
>>2959649>XanthorrhoeaWay to much shade.
>>2960088We replaced the polycarb sheets above it from cream to clear which let 90% of the light through, they reckon you can grow grass underneath them. I'll keep and eye on whether its getting enough sun or not, but here's the trick: the blackboy isnt planted, its in a pot which Ive placed into a pot that is buried in the mount behind the rocks, that way I can take it out if it needs to get more sun or for any other reason
>>2960014Something had to go there, this is what it looked like before, a mishmash of random plants, now it will be cohesive as a native Australian rockery
>>2960137Got a few plants, gotta get some more before planting
>>2960852Plants in, then next weekend will cover the soil with some crushed granite and its done!
>>2961046Actually not bad. Are you a host?
>>2961068Nah its just our backyard, spent the last year doing it up and its almost complete
>>2961207Sand in and she's done
>>2962264The blackboybis flowering too
>>2962274Day 2 of flowering. The honeyeaters have found it
>>2962264Looks beautiful! Only nitpicking criticism is that the drain looks a bit high.
>>2962483You would be correct, I actually just cut it down
We had a little visitor today
BussinThanks for the pics
>>2962575No problems Day 3 of flowering
>>2962874Day 4 and its almost in full bloom
>>2960137>native Australian rockerybit racist m8, 5 years in the iso cubes
>>2962559>>2963142
>>2963233>bit racist m8Nice>>2963256Day 5 and I think this is full bloom
>>2960014You’re a huge mistake and and a waste of space
>>2963325Day 6
Update
>>2959649might want to grab the angle grinder and cut in some expansion joints on the corners of your hexagon. might be able to force cracks to follow the current plane instead of going diagonal. corners are always weaker.
>>2964849The concrete is like 30 years old with very few cracks
The new plantscare taking off well
>>2966246
>>2967067you planted it all sideways
>>2967530Damn I did too
this looks great anon what else are you planting these days?
>>2967540why did you leave it in the pot in the middle?though i replied to this but cant see my post now ??????????the sand and gravel makes it look more natural, nicer imho.t. gardener
>>2967640Only because they really, REALLY hate being transplanted. This one was only plucked from the wild 2 years ago and is still recovering from being potted. They are highly regulated because they are an Australian native and for many years people were digging them up from anywhere and everywhere and putting them in their gardens at home. Because they only grow about 1cm per year it meant that they were in danger of becoming an endangered species. So now each one has to come with a tag like this one to show authenticity.Because they grow so slowly it wont out grow the pot its in for many years. When it does get to that stage I'll finally put it in the ground.Im happy with the sand too, should look good once all the plants grow and fill out the area, should make it look even more natural
>>2967712They have a license for their houseplants. YANGMI
>>2967718Such is the nanny state and economic zone formerly known as Australia
>>2967712nice
>>2967718>>2967746you're right better to just take as much as you want wherever/whenever and have no bag/boat limits on fishing either.
>>2960135They ones I've seen grow way higher that a typical roof. I guess they were super old.
>>2967901Super old! Ones that big are likely 1000 years old
>>2959649not a huge fan of black boys but it looks ok. will you plant too paws around it?
>>2962264Looks like shit on shit with some diarrhea tossed over.
>>2959649Looks great in my opinion. Are you planting any crawling plants? Also, thanks for the pictures, I especially like the one with a bird on the flower.
>>2968060Yes, will plant out more ground covers, just going to let what's there now grow a bit more so I can work out where to put the new stuff
>>2959649>>2961046cute idea. i dislike the uniform rock formations but understand the centerpiece presentation.any verticality or is that it with reaching flowers?
Thats it for now, the flower spike will start to die out over the next couple of months but will remain on the plant, then in a few years time itll grow another flower spike along side the old one like in this picture
Spent a week on KI this year and learned that one of the first industries on that island was exporting the red gum/resin they harvested from these grass trees. It was used in myriad products from food and clothing (dye) to cosmetics and fireworks. Downside being they had to smash the dried trunks into tiny pieces for the resin to fall out and nearly drove the local population of Xanthorrhoea to extinction. They called them yakka trees back then and it was a punishing, painful and labor intensive job which is where the term "hard yakka" comes from meaning hard work. Saw a few dead/broken grass trees on my walks there, the amount of resin inside is pretty astonishing, there's lots of it. You can still buy the stuff today. Thanks for reading my blog.
>>2959649bonza mate
>>2968191Fucken nice story mate, thanks for sharingHappy New Years
>>2968200Cheers cobba
Very nice OP. If it were mine I'd have gone for a water feature but that's just personal taste. Great work!
