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When designing a garden one of the first considerations is the local climate. - Melbourne's climate is temperate to cool. This climate affects how you landscape for&Melbourne gardens and especially what plants to grow. Here are our Melbourne Landscaping Ideas and Tips.

Vines are almost without equal in the beauty of the floral displays they produce. They can be used as screens, wall coverings, decorations for structures like pergolas, the list is endless. You get so much bang for your buck with vines because they only take up a small amount of garden planting space since they grow outwards from a single trunk. This leaves you plenty of space for other plantings in your garden.

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To prevent this article from sounding like an advertisement, I will not list any lawn and garden maintenance companies for those that prefer not to purchase all the necessary yard and garden tools. After factoring in the time, manual labor plus the cost of the tools, there will no doubt be some drop outs for the do it yourself lawn maintenance program.

The Boston Fern is one of the most popular ferns because they can reach up to 5 feet across which makes it a spectacular plant for a bathroom if you are going to have just one standalone plant. The optimum position for a Fern is between four and 6 feet from a sunny window which gives the plant perfect in direct sunlight. If the Boston Fern doesn't get enough light to the bathroom it will wither.

Chives are a perennial in the garden and grow approximately 12 inches (30 cm) tall. They are extremely easy to grow, are drought tolerant, rarely suffer from disease or pest problems, and don't require fertilizer. Cultivation requirements for growing chives: full sun, will tolerate light shade; grow best in well-drained, organic, fertile soil; keep soil moist - use mulch, and water during periods of drought. Chives tend to get overcrowded so dig and divide every three to four years.

Having a focal point in a large garden is absolutely imperative and depending on how large the space is you could have different focal points for different parts of the garden. For example you could use statues or garden ornaments to draw the eye as you sit in the patio area, also you could also use a classic wooden gazebo at the far end of the garden space as the main focal point when looking from your house.


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We had a fairly large pile of limestone rocks left over from an old rock wall. These rocks became the border for our perennial garden. My sister has horses and a nice pile of old horse manure. She graciously brought me a pickup truck load of manure which we mixed in the dirt. There is a recycling plant nearby that makes compost so we got a load of it to help improve the soil.




 
 
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