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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
marc, if OZ is anything like Texas, You will want to put a plastic underliner along the base of you mulch....
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It's odd, but as fecund as this place is, weeds are not as much a problem as I'd/you'd might expect. I suspect it's like the insects - competition keeps the pests down.
I should elaborate that the mulch I mentioned ("hoop pine mulch") is a very loose, large-pieced mulch. It's got a lot of hoop pine bark in it, which curls on itself and keeps it all loose, so it's less the kind of stuff you buy in bags at the supermarket, and more like the very loose stuff you might find walking through an actual forest. The scrub turkeys love it (we've a couple of baby turkeys running around our house at the moment). Also, we live on sand covered by a thinnish layer of humus.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
Marc, if the council doesn't like the much, maybe ground ivy? Is there something like that that's native to your area?
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There's a native plant (or a horticultured variation thereof) called "Bronze Rambler". It is is prostrate grevillea, and quite pretty and spreading, though not a vine. We've put it in some parts of the back garden (to cover the stump from the old tree we had chopped down). It might make it into the new "garden" (that is, the ex-nature strip) out the front, but back from the road a ways.
The reason the council
may have a problem with it is that I'm ostensibly making the nature strip "garden" by mulching it rather than leaving it as lawn. That is, they may feel it is no longer pedestrian-friendly (though if they want pedestrian-friendly, they're welcome to put a path in). They're advocates of indigenous plantings though, and "lawn" is the opposite of that, so they may be okay, assuming I don't make it too pedestrian-unfriendly. That's why I'll probably end up putting stepping stones in or keeping a reasonable strip plant-free - to please them, but, to be fair, to also give pedestrians (like us) somewhere safe to walk (since our neighbours over the road have planted trees to the edge of the road and it's a tight-ish road with the occasional driver that doesn't look for pedestrians and drives too fast around blind corners).
All this would probably be easier stated with a picture. All this is probably of little interest to anyone too.
Cheers,
Marc