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Yvonne Perkins Apr 14, 2024

It has been a big gardening planning weekend. We are in peak autumnal gardening season after bunkering down during the hot, dry summer. My mother and I made a list of tasks to do. We are organising a working bee. Hopefully some interested neighbours and family will join us in a week or two.

This afternoon I surveyed our street garden. Lots of nasturtium seedlings have popped up after the big rain. I moved them to fill empty spaces. The earth that has been dry as dust over summer has now been replenished after the rain. The trowel sinks in easily.

I had a chat with a hospitality business owner who runs his business next to our house about our progress and planting strategy. He has put an application into the local council to get funds for planting on the street corners to deter rubbish dumpers.
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Yvonne Perkins

I found a tube-stock plant I had bought at the Melbourne Garden Show a few weeks ago and forgotten to repot. It is an Eremophila Glabra from Western Australia. It is a ground cover plant that grows in a 1m-2m circumference. It is suitable for dry, sunny conditions with light soil.

I planted it in our street garden. It is the light-green leaved plant rising straight up in the middle of this photo. It is a bit of trial and error to find what plants succeed in the conditions of our street garden. It will have a chance to establish itself properly before it is assailed by our next hot, dry summer.

I have planted it close to a geranium and nasturtium seedlings. I regard those plants as dispensible. If the Eremophila succeeds I can move them or remove the other plants.

Here is a description of the plant: https://resources.austplants.com.au/plant/eremophila-glabra-kalbarri-carpet/

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Yvonne Perkins Apr 14, 2024

Another fact in street gardening is observing how people on the street interact with it. I want it to be practical with no rules imposed. I have found that on one corner people seem to walk on it. That means that I need to find sturdy ground cover plants that don't mind being trodden on. But they also have to be drought-proof.

Or maybe the answer is to put plants that are more noticeable in this area so people naturally move around them, not through them?

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