Neville’s Garden
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Episode: The Garden Gurus ‘Favourite Gardens’
Neville welcomes us into his dream garden.
Neville’s dream is all about creating a sustainable garden and with a bit of help from The Garden Gurus Landscape team, it will soon be done. Neville’s daughter, Lisa Passmore from Inspired by Nature designed the garden and has done a terrific job at recreating an angular, funky, contemporary look of the house, in the garden.
Underlying the entire garden is a purple pipe delivering grey water from the house that is enough to keep all the plants in the garden alive.
Neville has two wonderful plants from New Zealand in his front garden, the Pineapple Grass (Astelia Banksii) which has beautiful silver foliage, and the Renga Renga Lily (Arthropodium cirrhatum) which produces fantastic shows of white flowers during the summer months.
Nev’s latest edition to be planted in the garden is a Cacti Night Blooming Cactus (Cereus sp.). The two beauties are going to take pride of place in the front garden. The biggest trick of all will be planting them out. (For tips on how to plant Cacti please see Hint fact sheet)
Throughout the front garden Neville has used organic mulches. Amongst the Dianella Little Rev’s, Neville has used a fine brick mulch. Other material used to cover the ground includes course red sand, chunky gravel, rainbow stone quartz and of course the small area of Empire Zoysia grass, all of the materials used for surface covering are water wise.
Out the side of Neville’s house he has used a combination of buffalo grass and pavers; it is a particular type of Buffalo grass called Palmetto Buffalo Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum). It is lovely and green and can handle the shade. The beauty of putting the two together is when it rains in the winter the water can go strait into he ground. In the summer, the area would almost be unusable the pavers baking hot the lawn thankfully nice and cool.
Neville has risen up the sides of his veggie patch by 2x2 recycle slabs. The trick, industrial grade silicone has been put in the gaps to hold them up. In the bed there is pure compost that is Biowise, in WA, you can pick up different forms through out the country. The watering system is different as well. Neville uses rain water in his garden so it is fresh as apposed to recycled, which is used in the rest of the garden.
So there you have it, Neville’s sustainable garden a combination of design, plant choices, and a little bit of help from some friends.
Episode: The Garden Gurus ‘Favourite Gardens’
Neville welcomes us into his dream garden.
Neville’s dream is all about creating a sustainable garden and with a bit of help from The Garden Gurus Landscape team, it will soon be done. Neville’s daughter, Lisa Passmore from Inspired by Nature designed the garden and has done a terrific job at recreating an angular, funky, contemporary look of the house, in the garden.
Underlying the entire garden is a purple pipe delivering grey water from the house that is enough to keep all the plants in the garden alive.
Neville has two wonderful plants from New Zealand in his front garden, the Pineapple Grass (Astelia Banksii) which has beautiful silver foliage, and the Renga Renga Lily (Arthropodium cirrhatum) which produces fantastic shows of white flowers during the summer months.
Nev’s latest edition to be planted in the garden is a Cacti Night Blooming Cactus (Cereus sp.). The two beauties are going to take pride of place in the front garden. The biggest trick of all will be planting them out. (For tips on how to plant Cacti please see Hint fact sheet)
Throughout the front garden Neville has used organic mulches. Amongst the Dianella Little Rev’s, Neville has used a fine brick mulch. Other material used to cover the ground includes course red sand, chunky gravel, rainbow stone quartz and of course the small area of Empire Zoysia grass, all of the materials used for surface covering are water wise.
Out the side of Neville’s house he has used a combination of buffalo grass and pavers; it is a particular type of Buffalo grass called Palmetto Buffalo Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum). It is lovely and green and can handle the shade. The beauty of putting the two together is when it rains in the winter the water can go strait into he ground. In the summer, the area would almost be unusable the pavers baking hot the lawn thankfully nice and cool.
Neville has risen up the sides of his veggie patch by 2x2 recycle slabs. The trick, industrial grade silicone has been put in the gaps to hold them up. In the bed there is pure compost that is Biowise, in WA, you can pick up different forms through out the country. The watering system is different as well. Neville uses rain water in his garden so it is fresh as apposed to recycled, which is used in the rest of the garden.
So there you have it, Neville’s sustainable garden a combination of design, plant choices, and a little bit of help from some friends.
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