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Chelsea's Garden

This is my upcoming work by next week or two, which is designing for Chelsea's Garden. Basically here I have a rough sketch of the garden and currently just labeling the garden on what I could use with the empty space as my first step:

If you could see I actually labelled the first ground bed as "Perennial Gardens" which is actually this picture over here..

As I see the garden, I see the two lovely ferns that they

wanted to keep in the garden, that gives a high possibility that

the design for this garden will not just be an ordinary backyard!

It's either going to be a native landscape or an exotic bed, that has

both its benefits and disadvantages:

Native landscape:

+ Naturally tough plants, and high chance of it being non-invasive giving up little cost for management

+ Plants are cheaper in price if bought from stock

+ Drought tolerant - doesn't need any complex irrigation system, or even any irrigation system.

- Not suitable for a family garden (I think!)

Exotic bed:

+ A very eye catching garden, admirable for a place to hang out

+ Most of the plants give fragrance, hence an aromatherapy in the gardens to ease stress

- However expensive!

For this case I'd even done a brief list on the plants supposedly to be planted later based from the plant list on Horticultural Plants, such as:

The Native Landscape

Index/ Name Size / Type Price

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[6.3] Asplenium australasicum ...........................0.5 m Shrub........................................$13.95

[6.6] Cyathea australis..........................................2.0 m Shrub........................................$04.25

[9.4] Banksia prionotes.........................................5.0 m Tree........................................$11.70

Exotic Bed

Index/ Name Size / Type Price

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[4.1] Agave attenuata ...........................................1.0 m Shrub........................................$40.00

[3.5] Haemanthus coccineus.................................0.3 m Shrub........................................$15.00

[9.5] Erythrina xbidwilii .......................................1.0 m Shrub........................................$20.00

The small list above shows how the price does differ a lot as I mention as the highest price of a Native plant is not even as high for the lowest price in Exotic plant. Bear in mind that I haven't done an exact research so this is just an example. For the rest, it's up to Chelsea for the garden she like to choose and plants that she might want to use.

So, I'm currently just an amature horticulturist myself.. However a few more practice like this and I could be a professional horticulturist in no time, wish me luck in my designing and any suggestions are warmly accepted :D

Thx for reading, hope you enjoyed the blog - Justin H Kusnandar