🌵Creative Inspiration for Your Cacti, Succulent and Drought-Tolerant Garden
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- The weather is keeping me indoors so we're gonna go through pinterest to gather inspo for cacti, succulent and drought-tolerant gardens.
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It's so exciting to go from a balcony to a full yard! The fun is in the preparation so just take your time and enjoy it! I'll be happily watching!
Thanks Eileen :) Taking it slow is definitely the way to go. You gotta have so much patience with a bigger yard!
I can’t wait to see how your garden turns out. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! 💕
Lavender 💜
I LOVE lavender and I was so sad it didn't do well in my last place. Time to work with it again!
Chalksticks go nuts very quickly 😊
Just thought I'd share a couple of things with you. In a spray bottle 2 cups of metho to half a cup of water is awesome for mealy beats the dabbing thing. Pointy secateurs are so good as well u should give them a go . Love your vids and u have a great style with your arrangements
Thank you Lisa for these tips! I haven’t seen mealy yet in this garden so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I may even see how portulaca goes in the new garden. That’s great to know about chalk sticks!
I find blue chalk sticks grow extremely well in Qld anyway. That cascading blue plant looks like a type of wattle!
Correct, Francke! I google matched it and it looks like an acacia baileyana prostrate aka cootamundra wattle 🙂
Loved that! Yes, do more!
Noted! Thanks Julie :)
Three things:
1) Baby steps! Dream big; start small. You already have that covered, but it bears repeating when you’re overwhelmed. 😅
2) Empty space is your friend. Use it everywhere!
3) You need this book:
Australian Succulent Plants: An Introduction, by Attila Kapitany, 2007 (but may have been updated by now.) It’s over 200 pages of beautiful color photos. If it’s out of print, check eBay, Google, or public and university libraries, but I’m sure you’ll want to own it.
Have fun! I’m looking forward to watching your journey.
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4) Forgot to mention: In addition to Lavender, all Mediterranean herbs should do well in greater Sydney area. Consider Sage and other silvery plants. They can take a lot of heat. Lantana can be trained up a trellis and should be readily available, if not deemed an invasive species.
Did I mention Have Fun!?
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YES THANK YOU! I need to remember that empty space/negative space is valuable! Great reminder :) I just looked up that book- at a glance it's $350 on ebay 😬 I'll have to keep searching.
Thank you for the encouragement! 🙂
@@the.morning.chorus Geez, I guess it hasn’t been reprinted. 😖 If you can’t find a library copy for research and photocopying, try searching the Web for the author and native succulents and for nurseries that specialize in natives.
You have time. Hopefully you’ll be there for some years until you can buy your own place.
Conversely, you probably don’t want to invest a lot of money and time in a garden you can’t take with you. Dilemmas, dilemmas. 🤦♂️
Did I mention Having fun? 😂
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Semi Shaded areas Clivea & Bromeliads look great with succulents. For something out of the ordinary that might appeal to your tastes… look for a Parrot Plant. It’s part of the impatiens family but a bit rare in Australia. I just got one off a client recently and I’m loving it.
I had to look up parrot plant as I’m not familiar with it. What a beautiful flower it has- I can see why it earned its name!
One plant you add to your gardens to get the look of big agaves is Yucca. They are perennial, love full sun get beautiful white flowers for a month in the summer. They have that blue green foliage colour and they much cheaper than large succulents. 😀🇨🇦
Yucca! I love Yuccas, I have one in tree form. But of course they are so magnificent when you see the super large ones planted in the ground. We used to admire one in the old neighbourhood...it was HUGE!
I am not sure if they will be available in Australia, but there are a lot of xeric bunch grasses like gramma and muhly that are great with succulents. Some of what you called lavender may have actually been salvia, also very xeric and can handle super hot temps. Firecracker plant as well as foxtail fern can do well in xeric conditions -- popular in Texas and desert SoCal. The cool tree you liked is a palo verde.
Gaura (gar-uh) and coneflowers are also great in hot, xeric conditions. I also think the portulaca will do better in the ground than in pots -- they will probably reseed as well.
And... your intro/outro slaps. It's probably favorite of all UA-camrs.
Hahaha I don't even realise I'm doing that. So many plants to learn about now that I have space! Thanks for the suggestions! I'll probably research whatever the Australian native grasses are and find the closest equivalent. And that's all the prompting I need to renew my love for portulacas.
@@the.morning.chorus I forgot to mention... Washingtonia robusta (Mexican fan palm) can be tortured to within an inch of its life when it comes to watering. I get roughly the same amount of rain as they do in Sydney and I don't give them supplemental water.
If you water it more often and plant them in the ground... they grow very fast. As long as it doesn't get below 5c for more than a few days, they'll be just fine.
I love lavender! Your choice of terracotta pots for your cacti & succulents are awesome!
Definitely keen to give lavender a go again! Thank you Maria!
Yarrow ❤ you can get them in yellow, white, red, and peach colors. Oh and fire stick cactus is an interesting plant as well
I'm not familiar with yarrow so I had to look it up. What a soft and beautiful plant!
@@the.morning.chorus yes they really are super underrated. I have all the colors in my beds. They are some of the only plants that can take a beating and look so good. I live in the country in Kansas and at peak summer them and lavender really thrive in the heat and drought conditions for me.
I have the same issue with Lavender where it lives in my NQ garden but never flowers. :( Having watched your videos I think we have a similar aesthetic with what we are attracted to with colour and architecture in plants (side note, curse you for introducing me to Cactus Anonymous, I will never pay my mortgage off at this rate! :D ) I've been a Laura Eubanks fan for a long time too. Her videos are like crack to me. lol I'm always looking for compliment planting of non-succulents/cacti that can provide extra colour and texture. Definitely give gauras another go. They've survived our Townsville blistering sun and also heavy rain - I found they do best if you mass plant a bit. Even my plant killing sister has found success with them in her garden which she is very proud about.
The next must have, IMO, is iris domestica (blackberry lily). I've got it both in a pink and an orange and it's out in full sun in my garden and it only gets watered by what falls from the sky and they have been flowering for months. Everyone comments on them and they're very architectural. Definitely the firecracker plant is a must. Again, can really tolerate blistering sun and I have them in the red, orange and yellow and have mixed planted them for extra interest. Also, when it comes to colour, mangaves are awesome. Tough as nails and the colours and spots are to die for. I have a night owl which is practically black, and lavender lady, mission from mars, praying hands, pineapple express and a purple people eater which are just cracking on with it without me having to bother with them.
With your stone and driftwood in the garden, I'm also a big fan of putting a lovely big colourful decorative pot in there to create that necessary height and movement in the garden with a specimen plant. Also obsessed with variegated agaves which look amazing in pots. Have a Joe Hoak that is killing it in a big pot in full sun which I give no attention to at all. A spiller idea might be seaside daisies. Another good filler is curry plant, very tough and a pretty grey/blue colour and maybe a less leggy option than chalk sticks. A less scratchy option to bougainvillea for trellising could be petreas (false wisterias) or flaming trumpet. I think about co-planting them to have that contrast of purple and orange together. Would be amazing. Also, running water in a garden is something I'm obsessed with. I bought a tub from Bunnings with a lid for about $200, dug a hole and put it in the ground with a pump (had power point nearby but solar would work too), filled with water and then covered it with pebbles and built up stones in the middle to create a little self feeding babbling fountain effect. All the wildlife love it and it's so nice to watch and listen to it in the garden. Even though you're renting, you could still do that and just fill in the hole when you leave.
Side note, I think the tree you liked with the blue agave and sedum adolphi might be a desert museum?? Not sure we can get them here in Australia. Love your content and am excited to see what you do with the garden. I had the same feeling of being overwhelmed and wanting to do everything at once when I moved into my place 3 years ago and I'm only getting it to a point now where I'm starting to see my vision realised - in part because my vision keeps changing and evolving, but I think gardens shouldn't be static, they should be reinvented regularly because living things aren't meant to stay still. And there are always more plants out there to discover and fall in love with. Which is why I've started my indoor plant journey now, which is another rabbit hole that is consuming me. lol Good luck with it all and look forward to seeing what you decide upon with everything. :)
I love this comment so much! Thank you Lou! You have incredible knowledge and it's obvious you've spent time experimenting in your own garden - thank you for sharing 😍
The Iris Domesticas are GORGEOUS, I have to find a spot for them. I'll definitely give Gaura a go again. Pots will definitely have to be used for the garden beds. Being in a rental we'll keep some of the large cacti in pots. Until we find our forever home at least.
Any chance you've had experience with the mandevilla vine? I google matched it in the photo with the ammak.
Yes, the mandevilla vine grows like a weed here in the tropics. It's very pretty and the dark red ones are my favourite. Although again, mixed planting of a couple of their different colours always looks good. Gives real movement to things, I think at least. They would have no issue with Sydney's summers, not sure about your winters but they are FAST growers here. They can grow 2 to 3m over summer alone - granted we have long summers but unfettered i.e., in the ground with something to climb, they fill a space very quickly here. I can't really speak to how they'll go in colder weather unfortunately, so not sure how it'd handled a Sydney winter. I feel like it'd be okay if it was established enough before hit with frost and the like. That's just a feeling though and not based on experience because a freezing day here is about 18C and if it gets to 14C I want to call a snow day! That's why I can't grow all those gorgeous aeoniums that I'm green with envy seeing being grown in the more southern states. :( I try and try but they can't cope with our summers - even brought them inside this summer for extra protection during their dormancy but alas, to no avail.
Anyways, enough about what I can't grow, I've had more thoughts about what you can grow, like some of your lovely other viewers - you get plant people talking about plants and we can't stop! Helping plan someone else's garden is just as much fun as doing your own. :) So, I'm with the others about native grasses, lomandra is a tough old bird which comes in a variety of greens - lime through to greys. Carex Feather Falls looks fab in a pot and is doing well in my garden so far. Love Miscanthus sinensis 'Gold Bar' too. Very striking addition to any garden.
Also thought of tradescantia for spillers in pot - I've found the purple heart to be terminator like tough in my garden, unlike some of the other tradescantias. I've weeded them out of things, thrown it into a pot and forgotten to get back to it and found it's taken root and swamping the poor baby mangave I was growing in there. It's a very dramatic purple that breaks up the green a lot. And on that note, another great filler to wedge in between rocks and the like is rhoeo but I only like the pink stripe/touches of pink one rather than the standard. I find the pink ones a little less rampant then it's more common dark purple sister which can quickly get a bit ratty.
Ugh, so many choices! So many pretty plants to become obsessed over and covet! I look at some of your larger columnar cacti and am just green with envy. I have a few that size but I always want more. lol You and Tim have amassed a gorgeous collection, indoors and out and I'm sure you'll do just as great a job with this blank canvas as you did your last one. And watching you move all those plants to your new house broke me out in a sweat. My family has already told me they're not moving me and all my plants again - particularly now my obsession has gotten the teeniest bit out of hand. I don't know how many plants it takes to make you happy, but I know it's not 200+ in pots and in the ground. :D So, I guess I'll just never sell this house and one day my garden will completely overtake and consume me and honestly, that doesn't sound like a horrible way to go lot. lol Enjoy the journey - it's going to be epic! @@the.morning.chorus
Have to let you know because you mentioned in this video coveting tephrocactus geometricans like I always have - just bought a 4 header for $140 from a Nicole Ye on Facebook and she has 2 others at time of writing this. I haven't seen them this advanced for this price so thought i'd let you know in case you were in the market for one right now. 😊
@@LouBlue01 I can't believe I didn't reply to this! This is honestly the most generous comment, and it's given me many things to think about. There ARE so many options! I've put mandevilla in my garden, but I've discovered that mealy bugs like it! So I'll have to keep on top of that. and watch that it doesn't spread to other plants- otherwise I might have to look into other options.
It's just starting to get to get cooler here. Not sure what this time of year is like in North Queensland but I reckon the cooler temps here are a welcome break for some of my plants!
@@LouBlue01 I have been keeping an eye on tephrocactus on marketplace! They're popping up more and more. I've been so focused on the garden bed lately, but I'd probably keep that cactus in a pot so I might get one for when I clear a little more space on my shelves 😂
I was also overwhelmed with a 5,000 sq foot canyon to fill with succulents. I found the best way to cope is to segment your garden into multiple smaller areas and pick one small location to start. Stage, plant, and finish to a delightful degree and then you may find you’ll get more and more excited at continuing the design across your other areas. Also would make cool series of chapters in your wonderful UA-cam videos!
Thanks for the encouragement! :) Definitely need to work one area at a time.
i find and most people find growing kangaroo paw on the east coast difficult. brachychiton rupestris, cordyline, Casaurina cousin it, festuca, nandina are all rather easy drought tollerant plants
Wow! Thank you for all these suggestions. So many things to try. I would love to have an aus bottle tree and try cousin it in my garden!
The ‘waterfall’ plant is a prostrate wattle. I grew it for years and it turned into a small tree and flowered profusely. Should go well in a full sun position.
If you wanted to quickly fill in the raised beds you could consider purple fountain grass or some of the smaller grasses.
Rosemary and Westringia go well with succulents and Salvia would be another very hardy choice that will flower, give a bit of height and can be propagated easily from cuttings.
The nursery at Cumberland State Forest in West Pennant Hills is very good for all sorts of plants including lots of natives that can be bought in tube stock so it’s not too expensive to try new plants out.
I google matched the waterfall plant and it gave me acacia baileyana prostrate. What colour flowers did you get on them? Rosemary! Of course!
Thank for the tip about the Cumberland State Forest- I'm not too far from that area!
Acacias have a bright yellow flower.
I would like to ask the following questions, if possible, to get to know you better! 1) how long ago did you start collecting your collection of cacti and succulents and what was the first plant in your collection 2) what do you do for work? 3) you are very light, what is the secret of this lightness ?4) did you have a wedding? 5) does your husband love your plants? and does he help you take care of them? 6) what is the most expensive cactus in your collection? I apologize in advance, I am writing these questions through a translator and I really ask you to include Russian subtitles🙏thanks in advance
Mari, thank you so much for these questions! I would LOVE to answer them in an upcoming Q&A video if that is okay with you :) I'll add Russian subtitles to this video too!
I dont know if u can implement what I got to say about this beaqause I live in Sweden, but a lawn is easy to mantain with a robotmower. The gravel gets filled with weed just in a few months. Poisons are illegal to use here beacause it destroy DNA and are carcinogenic. Best way to prevent bugs that eat plants is to water with high pressure. All companies here and other countries that sell plants do this.
I wish I had a robot mower! Thank you for these tips!
Salvia under the tree
Thanks!
Hi Shy! Would you consider hiring someone for a short time to work with you and show you what to do? Your garden shops may have recommendations of people who are experts in growing in your climate. MY sister was a Master Gardener and some of the retired people in her group hired out to help people transform their spaces. Give it a think!
Ooh that is a great tip Molly, probably could do with another set of eyes for when I really get stuck! 💕