lesleys

That's what I mean, succulents are so easy. Some colours of pigface die off after a few years so I just replant cuttings every year.

Alfresco

I'm gonna plant self-surviving plants when I get around to it.

cresta57

I've looked everywhere for them & round to its are just not for sale here. I might bring a big bag full back with me from overseas. You can never get enough round to its

Alfresco

I'm also thinking of some African indigenous plants too. I'm quite familiar with them and more or less know which ones are low maintenance. A bit of Africa in Australia.

Alfresco

Around-to-its are available however. I saw some in Bunnings last weekend. Bunnings sell almost everything. If they don't have it, you can order in.

fish.01

On that topic I miss this Brisbane zoo we used to go to as kids. The dads used to drive the family car in with the lions. Keep the windows up kids. Maybe you could start up a new one ?

Bullens African Lion Safari:

brissybee

That looks like Longleat in the UK if it's still going.

My african daisies are quite hardy but they do seem to need regular watering in warm weather.

paulry

You can say that again. The last house we lived in was on an 800sqm plot with lots of shrub/flower borders. I tried a systematic approach - two buckets full of weeds a day, providing the chickens with as many daily salads as they could eat but even at that rate I just couldn't keep up.

eddie007

Concrete ... That's the answer

cresta57

My little house in the U.K got similar treatment. Brought the excavator home from work & dug up everything from the door to the fence. Spread some fill topped off with some weedproof matting liberated from another source & then gravelled the lot added random paved areas & a multitude of fancy chimney pots that I'd collected over 25yrs. My mum planted a load of fancy stuff in them & I watered once a week.

Japonica

I think it depends on a lot of factors. We mulch heavily to discourage the weeds and it takes me maybe 5-10 min every four weeks or so to pull all the weeds in our flower/shrub border. Popping the weeds out of the lawn takes a bit longer, maybe 30-40 min every three to four weeks during the winter/spring. Summer--the weeds aren't much of an issue at all. That said our block is smaller, just 500 sqm.

We've never used weed n feed on our lawn (just seasol and organic fertiliser pellets during the winter) and we have fewer weeds than all the neighbours who do. Like I said before, we're probably the more inept, lackadaisical gardeners on the block, yet just from aesthetics, the lawn looks pretty good.

lesleys

We've got 5 acres to weed.

We don't attempt to weed the grass amongst the avo trees (kept short anyway), avo trees are all mulched and remulched. I go round the garden beds and recovering rain-forest every few weeks.

spouse of scouse

Same here (except for the chooks). We got so sick of weeding that we put weed mat on all the borders, cut around the existing shrubs and rose bushes, and plonked mulch on the top. No weeds and it looks pretty good.

Bunnings wanted the earth for weed matting, so I went on eBay, $50 for 60 metres, free postage.

lesleys

Try landscape suppliers for bigger quantities of matting/gravel etc. Much cheaper than Bunnings.

paulry

As tenants we were very limited on what we could do to the garden but there were way too many flower and shrub borders (over a third of the unbuilt-on portion of the plot). Fortunately (as it turned out), the landlord announced he was putting the house up for auction and allowed us to break the lease before the day without penalty. The house we moved into is closer to 500sqm with 95% lawns. Much easier and the chickens still get their greens because I mow a small portion every couple of days or so and give them the cuttings. Plus, the house is smaller so less housework to do.