In your Australian garden...
 

What plants do you have in you garden?? Just being nosey, but I love my wee garden with it`s hibiscus & frangipani. I`ve got a few fruit trees as well (lemon, orange, passion fruit vine, peach & mulberry as well as olive) no fruit as yet but I have the trees!

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Don't have one of our own as yet, still in rental, but I want lots of those birds of paradise flowers love them.

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were having a tennis court..we had lots of plants and trees but weve squashed em;)

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:rofl:

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Some fruit, frangipani, hibiscus, birds of paradise things, stacks of gingers :rolleyes: (don't ask), masses and masses of stuff that I have no idea about :lol:

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We have a jacaranda (which is my favourite) and a mango tree in our garden. We even get fruit from it - but only about once every seven years :(. We chopped down an olive tree that was growing too well.

Also loads of star jasmine, bougainvillea, hibiscus, clivea and murraya (mock orange).

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I love the bird of paradise plants!! HOw easy is the ginger to grow then ??- I have lemon grass which is going mad

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You see thats the problem with starting this sort of thread - I read everyones replies and think "I want that in mine" Jacarandas are lovely, I have a small star jasmine waiting to go in but we also have 2 bouganvilla which although lovely grow like mad &are absolute buggers for their thorns when you try to prune them:D

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Yes, bougainvillea is pretty evil to look after really but I put up with it because I love that burst of colour. Same with the jacaranda - it drops zillions of tiny leaves everywhere in late winter but I forget all about it when that blossom appears. ;)

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Our landlord told us we could plant whatever we liked, so I've done the back garden with bougenvelia along the fence that borders the park and a lemon tree & a lime tree. Along the fences between us and our neighbours I have tons of stuff in pots...cacti, frangipani, lavender, capsicum, tomatoes, little annual flowers and a palm tree. Under our windows in the back I've planted 4 climbing roses. I'm going to plant some herbs in pots this weekend but not sure if they'll go outside or inside in the kitchen.

Front garden is just grass & some little flowering shrubs. Even though it's a rental, it's our home. We want it to be nice, so don't mind putting a few $$ into making it that way.

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Ginger is easy to grow and has some fantastic unusual "flowers". Lemon Grass can go a bit too mad I've heard, it maight need to go into a pot.

We have orange trumpet vine - spectacular along the fence and just coming into flower now. Once it's established it's tough as old boots. We also have poinciana trees, Yuccas, Agave, Draceana, heliconia, lomandra, liriope, the massive bird of paradise (the white/mauve flower one) canna lillies.

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Mostly natives here - and a thick cypress chippings mulch. The idea is to avoid work in the future - although it's almost crippled me getting it that way <g>.

Vegetable plot starting up.

Don't ever think natives "just work" - they are not easy, certainly around here.

The first frost of the winter, last week, was quite a hard one and has killed quite a few plants stone dead.

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I can't eat any of them or smoke any of them so I really haven't bothered with them much....

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:lol: fair enough.

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Gobbyjock, ginger won't grow so far south in WA, nor will poinciana trees; in fact many of the plants that are mentioned here need a tropical climate. But you can grow lots of things that the tropical climate will kill.