Mirror Deck with epiphytic greenwalls at ‘Sea-Changer’
Dear Garden Lovers of mine ..
Yes after 48 years, 10 of them here at 21 Lavinia Street, Forresters Beach on the Central Coast, I’ve decided to sell, retire and remove to FNQ Cairns.
Happy Easter Weekend and hoping there may be a better fate for ‘Sea-Changer’ garden than going to landfill, to make way for prospective new owner’s possible priorities in replacement of current garden space for lawns and a pool.
No planting from ‘Sea-Changer’ will transfer successfully from cool subtropics to wet tropics grow conditions. I’m wondering if avid gardening friends and family you may have would be interested in purchasing a 3 bedroom house, with a garden made from rare, non-general line hard to find planting.
If so, here is the listing link not yet live at the 2 big sites …
For off market house viewings over Easter up till TUES 29th APR, please contact Nick West 0409 078 444at TheAgencyTerrigal nickwest@theagency.com.au
Listing will go live on WED 7th MAY ’25 after which open house inspections will launch on SAT 10th MAY, with Auction date SAT 31st MAY.
Best wishes and thanks for reading the Garden Lovers posts over the years… I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much as I have enjoyed creating them ..
Combination Green Wall & Eco Pillow runs transforms built hard surface to lush abundance
Apartment living is here to stay and as many choose the lower maintenance option this lifestyle brings, interesting challenges are being met with innovative and sustainable outcomes for the ‘garden in the sky’.
So you’ve decided to leave the expense of a high maintenance family home for apartment living. Ok, well while there are going to be some adjustments to be made now you’re ‘living in the sky’, you’ve probably noticed a big change from a garden growing on terra-firma as a ground dweller. While its lovely not having to worry about gutters and rising damp, unrelieved hard surface surrounding your every moment might be a little jarring to get get used to ….
What to do to trade off some of that unyielding hard surface for lush green cover .. to bring back balance in a living surround.. ?
Transform hard surface visual ‘bounce back’ for lush visually absorbent green cover
Combination Greenwalls with Eco Pillow runs are the new frontier in transformation of the built environment. Super water efficient with their own irrigation system and drip trays, 2m x 1m panels cover majority vertical spaces in ‘portrait’ orientation and are extended across horizontal expanses using 800 x 400mm Eco Pillows end to end in ‘landscape’ orientation.
Once reliable water is connected, the impact of high exposure aspects from the 4th floor and much higher, can be made sustainable with a fertiliser injector for easy nutrition to a vast band width of plant selection adaptable from epiphytic and lithophytic habitats. A myriad of various bromeliads from aechaea, neoregelia, vriesea, canistropsis, canistrum and even the Giant Landscape species alcantarea. These can form a majority planting space at uppermost reaches for the most sun tolerance, with native hoya australis on grow supports to extend cover to higher horizontal hard surface. Progressively self shaded, the lower reaches are best for a mix of foliage contrasts as understory in peperomia, plectranthus, begonias, streptocarpus, epiphyllum and ferns to take up lower position micro climates.
Eco Pillow run made into a ‘green-band’ in high exposure doing so well in its first season
Growing media comprises a majority of inorganic component parts that won’t disintegrate, leaving plants in ‘root block’ depletion and susceptible to predation with nothing to grow in after the first year. Instead available pore space is kept above an acceptable minimum, so your Greenwall has a beautifully long life expectancy. Maintenance is built into your installation contract and can be arranged after the initial grow in period.
Why live in a hard surface environment closer to the polar bear exhibit at the zoo, when you could frame the view, back the bathroom or grow a wreath of rich contrasts just where you need it most !
.. and if your Greenwall requirements are just part of your scope of work to be Project Managed together, call Garden Designer Peter Nixonor call 0418 161513
