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Goodenia Ovata
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Posted by elly279 VIC (My Page) on Thu, May 8, 08 at 0:19
| Hi all,
We recently had some sand (kaolin) laid down for a horse riding arena and I would really like to border it with something around the edges, not too high and easy to grow/ maintain? It is situated in quite an open area and looking around there's not much locally other than natives growing either.
Our local nursery has highly recommended Goodenia Ovata as hardy, fast growing and very easy to hedge option.
Question is, if we were to border the arena with tyres (as power poles are now unavailable to the public) and plant in these would the Goodenia Ovata grow down and over the edges of the tyres to help conceal them or does it only grow out and up?
There is a possibility of not using tyres and just planting without a physical border but is preferable if we can.
Any further suggestions would also be hugely appreciated!
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RE: Goodenia Ovata
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It's a good plant, and highly suitable. It would probably grow to about tyre-diameter, and about the same height - not really concealing the tyres but reducing their visual importance. Style-wise, it's decidedly good taste to choose a plant like this which will blend with the natives of your wider view.
It is always worth remembering though that nothing, but nothing, ever really conceals garden structures - be they ugly old fences, beautiful trellises, tyres, expensive retaining walls, etc. If beauty is a major consideration then money has to be spent on the structure.
However, tyres can actually look good, providing you get reasonably well-matched ones and lay them with neatly geometrical care. The ugliness of tyres in the landscape often owes more to the haphazard placing of mismatched materials, than to the choice of material itself.
Tyres have a practical advantage in that they would retain your kaolin while presenting no hard, sharp edges to hurt either man or beast.
Meanwhile, there is likely to be room in those tyres for more than one plant each. Would you like the look of a ground-hugging plant spilling over the tyres? Your local nursery would be able to recommend one.
Best of luck with the project.
Trish |
RE: Goodenia Ovata
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| If you want something a little larger, say 3m high, then Myporum insulare would be another excellent fast growing shrub. Goodenia has some what of a sprawling habit so it would cover the tyers and probably eventually be strangled by them to some extent. I would remove the tyers once the plants start to engulf them or else use them to form garden edging rather than planting in the centre of them. |
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