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We first visited Albert Koomen’s 420-sqm garden in 2017 when he was busy stripping unwanted plants from his new home in Melbourne’s west.
Starting again with the blank canvas, he’s since been working on his version of a semi-formal garden using Australian native plants, many of which are local to where he lives.
The main difference was drawing up a plan before rushing in, he says. His reason for using native plants was to provide habitat and food plants for local wildlife.
The garden is small, with narrow spaces along either side, and small areas in the front and back.
Despite that, he’s created some distinctive landscapes by limiting the number of species he’s used and disciplined pruning. One side has an informal path edged with strappy grasses in front of a correa hedge and weeping bottlebrushes along the fence line.
In the rear garden, there’s a straight path edged by recycled bricks and filled with gravel; to soften the lines he has planted a correa hedge in a circular pattern across either side of the path. A purple bench highlights the purple flowers in his limited palette of colours: silvers, greys, and blues.
A favourite plant of Albert’s is the sweet bursaria, which has panicles of small white flowers in summer and attracts lots of insects and insect-eating birds.
After just four years the garden already looks mature – the bursaria is nearly 4m tall – even though it was all planted using small tubestock-sized plants.
Two small eucalypts grow in pots: a Wolgan Snow gum and Victorian Silver gum. The latter looks scrappy in summer when case moth larvae attack it, but after hearing they have little habitat left, he’s learnt to live with the moth-eaten leaves and found the tree soon recovers once they’ve pupated.
A more unusual screening plant that he’s chosen is native hemp bush (Gynatrix pulchella), which has pretty cream flowers in spring and summer.
On the southern side where there’s either full sun or full shade, he’s planted a row of callistemon and created a lattice covered with pots of hanging plants.
Filmed on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Deer Park, Vic
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Gardening Australia is an ABC TV program providing gardening know-how and inspiration. Presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program, the magazine, books, DVDs and extensive online content.
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We first visited Albert Koomen’s 420-sqm garden in 2017 when he was busy stripping unwanted plants from his new home in Melbourne’s west.
Starting again with the blank canvas, he’s since been working on his version of a semi-formal garden using Australian native plants, many of which are local to where he lives.
The main difference was drawing up a plan before rushing in, he says. His reason for using native plants was to provide habitat and food plants for local wildlife.
The garden is small, with narrow spaces along either side, and small areas in the front and back.
Despite that, he’s created some distinctive landscapes by limiting the number of species he’s used and disciplined pruning. One side has an informal path edged with strappy grasses in front of a correa hedge and weeping bottlebrushes along the fence line.
In the rear garden, there’s a straight path edged by recycled bricks and filled with gravel; to soften the lines he has planted a correa hedge in a circular pattern across either side of the path. A purple bench highlights the purple flowers in his limited palette of colours: silvers, greys, and blues.
A favourite plant of Albert’s is the sweet bursaria, which has panicles of small white flowers in summer and attracts lots of insects and insect-eating birds.
After just four years the garden already looks mature – the bursaria is nearly 4m tall – even though it was all planted using small tubestock-sized plants.
Two small eucalypts grow in pots: a Wolgan Snow gum and Victorian Silver gum. The latter looks scrappy in summer when case moth larvae attack it, but after hearing they have little habitat left, he’s learnt to live with the moth-eaten leaves and found the tree soon recovers once they’ve pupated.
A more unusual screening plant that he’s chosen is native hemp bush (Gynatrix pulchella), which has pretty cream flowers in spring and summer.
On the southern side where there’s either full sun or full shade, he’s planted a row of callistemon and created a lattice covered with pots of hanging plants.
Filmed on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Deer Park, Vic
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Gardening Australia is an ABC TV program providing gardening know-how and inspiration. Presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program, the magazine, books, DVDs and extensive online content.
Watch more: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/gard...
Facebook: Facebook: gardeningaustralia
Instagram: Instagram: gardeningaustralia
Web: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening
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This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3).
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