Cycads & More Natives

Finally the dirt for my new gardens arrived from the quarry down the road. Sand trucks pass my garden on the way to the quarry. I got four truckloads of coffee rock sand which I shaped into two gardens. The first garden is near the Sheraton in front of the forest. It is planted with cycads. The second garden is alonside the shed. The feature plant is a grass tree but I also planted banksias, waratahs, grevilleas, paper daisies and kangaroo paws. At first the garden mounds look like "piles of dirt" but they eventually start looking more like gardens.

Mulch hay was being made next door so I hailed the truck on its way past and bought 40 bales. The forest of 22 tiny trees was the first to be thickly mulched - that should slow down the grass growth.