SO i have bit of an area to make presentable.
It’s a boundary fence. (I’ll make it strong. Proper strong.)
2.4m high. 3” Timber rails on 6” diameter timber posts.
North east aspect.
I was gonna plant kiwi fruit on it, but they’re deciduous and i want to block the neighbours out all year round. Save havin a blue with ‘em. Loud creatures yet to move in. Say no more.
So i thought i might plant an orange trumpet vine on the fence, winter colour, evergreen etc.
A few dwarf red poinsettias in the foreground, more winter colour. Gees i’m a trendsetter aren’t I!!!
I’m looking for a few in between, winter flowering plants to 2m high to plant between the orange
fence and the red foreground.
Be good if it was something i could eat, then i’d take some interest, but any old plant will do i guess.
Thought about hibiscus. Gardenias.
Thought about doing nothing and having a beer and thinking further about it too.
Suggestions appreciated.
BTW, the neighbours (to be) have a cat and they wanted a lend of a chook so they could introduce the cat to chooks and save problems later.
Should i catch the cat and feed it to my fish, or should i just use it for a slow release fertiliser?

Longy said:

BTW, the neighbours (to be) have a cat and they wanted a lend of a chook so they could introduce the cat to chooks and save problems later.
Should i catch the cat and feed it to my fish, or should i just use it for a slow release fertiliser?

they trying to train the cat to chase your chooks? Wouldn’t it be better if the cat never meets them at all but stays inside their house?

slow release fertiliser sounds good. would heat up the compost good and proper too as long as kit doesn’t go and explode on you.

hiya there Longy :)

Hibiscus and Gardenias are inedible although a tea can be brewed from the red hibiscus flowers.

Beer first, thinking later. Alcohol kills the slow and weak brain cells (see: Darwinism) and therefor eyou think with better strength and clarity after a beer.

slowrelease fertiliser.

bluegreen said:

Longy said:

BTW, the neighbours (to be) have a cat and they wanted a lend of a chook so they could introduce the cat to chooks and save problems later.
Should i catch the cat and feed it to my fish, or should i just use it for a slow release fertiliser?

they trying to train the cat to chase your chooks? Wouldn’t it be better if the cat never meets them at all but stays inside their house?

slow release fertiliser sounds good. would heat up the compost good and proper too as long as kit doesn’t go and explode on you.

hiya there Longy :)

Yo Beej. No, they’re getting the cat used to chooks, so when it is out roaming, it doesn’t hurt my chooks. It’s a no brainer. I’ll disappear it. However, i need to decide what to plant on it. Between red and orange!

pain master said:

Hibiscus and Gardenias are inedible although a tea can be brewed from the red hibiscus flowers.

Beer first, thinking later. Alcohol kills the slow and weak brain cells (see: Darwinism) and therefor eyou think with better strength and clarity after a beer.

slowrelease fertiliser.

Point 1: Noted.
Point 2. Common knowledge.
Point 3. The preferable option.

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

what about the ornamental passionfruit with the big red flowers! I saw one on Horn Island once, it was speccy!

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

The passionfruit is along the next bit of fence.
(You need to understand i have a total property boundary of about 400 metres or so. )
I’d have to pelletise the cat.
Methods???

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

what about the ornamental passionfruit with the big red flowers! I saw one on Horn Island once, it was speccy!

Thats the one! I knew I’d seen it up that way , it’s at my brissy sisters place and gorgeous.

Longy said:

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

The passionfruit is along the next bit of fence.
(You need to understand i have a total property boundary of about 400 metres or so. )
I’d have to pelletise the cat.
Methods???

Cook, dry, pound into flakes. Then you can have a beer after all that work.

Longy said:

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

The passionfruit is along the next bit of fence.
(You need to understand i have a total property boundary of about 400 metres or so. )
I’d have to pelletise the cat.
Methods???

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

what about the ornamental passionfruit with the big red flowers! I saw one on Horn Island once, it was speccy!

Be too cold here i reckon. Besides, i have a passionfruit. I can eat it. It wins. I’m looking for something to plant between the background trumpet vine and the foreground poinsettias. Stop confusing me you mongrels.

Thats the one! I knew I’d seen it up that way , it’s at my brissy sisters place and gorgeous.

Happy Potter said:

Longy said:

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

The passionfruit is along the next bit of fence.
(You need to understand i have a total property boundary of about 400 metres or so. )
I’d have to pelletise the cat.
Methods???

Cook, dry, pound into flakes. Then you can have a beer after all that work.

Positive suggestion. Noted. Ta!

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

++++++++++
Nuh. She’d chicken out. Dead cert!
Best to use my own shredder. (I’d already thought of that but it aint nice)

Longy said:

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

++++++++++
Nuh. She’d chicken out. Dead cert!
Best to use my own shredder. (I’d already thought of that but it aint nice)

Nah, Lucky’s always posting Pigs around the place, and her new mincer looks pretty portable so there’s prolly no drama with L1 lending it to you for a night or two. She just needs to stock her freezer with mince before posting.

pain master said:

Longy said:

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

++++++++++
Nuh. She’d chicken out. Dead cert!
Best to use my own shredder. (I’d already thought of that but it aint nice)

Nah, Lucky’s always posting Pigs around the place, and her new mincer looks pretty portable so there’s prolly no drama with L1 lending it to you for a night or two. She just needs to stock her freezer with mince before posting.

4 good suggestions in a row. You should get a job with the Government mate!
Lukim U olgeter

Longy said:

pain master said:

Longy said:

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

++++++++++
Nuh. She’d chicken out. Dead cert!
Best to use my own shredder. (I’d already thought of that but it aint nice)

Nah, Lucky’s always posting Pigs around the place, and her new mincer looks pretty portable so there’s prolly no drama with L1 lending it to you for a night or two. She just needs to stock her freezer with mince before posting.

4 good suggestions in a row. You should get a job with the Government mate!
Lukim U olgeter

1 too many for the Gillard administration… (or is that Gillian?)

Bamahuta.

pain master said:

Longy said:

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

The passionfruit is along the next bit of fence.
(You need to understand i have a total property boundary of about 400 metres or so. )
I’d have to pelletise the cat.
Methods???

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

oi!!!!! lol………I have minced a chicken boob and the blades are sharp……

Longy said:

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

++++++++++
Nuh. She’d chicken out. Dead cert!
Best to use my own shredder. (I’d already thought of that but it aint nice)

Too right…lol

pain master said:

Longy said:

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

++++++++++
Nuh. She’d chicken out. Dead cert!
Best to use my own shredder. (I’d already thought of that but it aint nice)

Nah, Lucky’s always posting Pigs around the place, and her new mincer looks pretty portable so there’s prolly no drama with L1 lending it to you for a night or two. She just needs to stock her freezer with mince before posting.

hehehe…. I could too…

Longy said:

SO i have bit of an area to make presentable.
It’s a boundary fence. (I’ll make it strong. Proper strong.)
2.4m high. 3” Timber rails on 6” diameter timber posts.
North east aspect.
I was gonna plant kiwi fruit on it, but they’re deciduous and i want to block the neighbours out all year round. Save havin a blue with ‘em. Loud creatures yet to move in. Say no more.
So i thought i might plant an orange trumpet vine on the fence, winter colour, evergreen etc.
A few dwarf red poinsettias in the foreground, more winter colour. Gees i’m a trendsetter aren’t I!!!
I’m looking for a few in between, winter flowering plants to 2m high to plant between the orange
fence and the red foreground.
Be good if it was something i could eat, then i’d take some interest, but any old plant will do i guess.
Thought about hibiscus. Gardenias.
Thought about doing nothing and having a beer and thinking further about it too.
Suggestions appreciated.
BTW, the neighbours (to be) have a cat and they wanted a lend of a chook so they could introduce the cat to chooks and save problems later.
Should i catch the cat and feed it to my fish, or should i just use it for a slow release fertiliser?

My goodness. The world is catching up with you LF. I know for a fact that cats don’t take to house moving very well. Maybe this one won’t be any different to the norm and just run away, never to be seen again.

I’ll read what others have suggested for the garden before I put my 2bobs worth in. The Pyrostegia sounds good though.

what about an ornamental ginger ?

An Erythrina would look inneresting for a splash of colour… or even try a clumping kinda plant like Day Lillies or Canna Lillys?

pain master said:

An Erythrina would look inneresting for a splash of colour… or even try a clumping kinda plant like Day Lillies or Canna Lillys?

I was going to suggest day lillies. They put up a good colour ful display. They do their own thing quietly with little upkeep necessary. Don’t care if they get a bit dry.

The only question was…will they be taller than the poinsettias or not?

pomolo said:

pain master said:

An Erythrina would look inneresting for a splash of colour… or even try a clumping kinda plant like Day Lillies or Canna Lillys?

I was going to suggest day lillies. They put up a good colour ful display. They do their own thing quietly with little upkeep necessary. Don’t care if they get a bit dry.

The only question was…will they be taller than the poinsettias or not?

No they won’t, but perhaps the poinsettias can be the middle plant, and the day lillies at the front?

pomolo said:

pain master said:

An Erythrina would look inneresting for a splash of colour… or even try a clumping kinda plant like Day Lillies or Canna Lillys?

I was going to suggest day lillies. They put up a good colour ful display. They do their own thing quietly with little upkeep necessary. Don’t care if they get a bit dry.

The only question was…will they be taller than the poinsettias or not?

Yes ditto the cannas PM suggested. Note that the others are in colour now, so winter flowering would be best.
I was thinking of a smallish single shrub or two, just to fill the gap. Height about 1.5m maximum.
What else flowers in Winter??

perhaps the poinsettias can be the middle plant, and the day lillies at the front?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hmm.
Perhaps.

bird of paradise Strelitzia reginae
That’s a maybe.

Longy said:

bird of paradise Strelitzia reginae
That’s a maybe.

easy plant to get Ugly.

What about a Camelia? You got some acid in yer soil?

pain master said:

What about a Camelia? You got some acid in yer soil?

More acid than i deserve but i have already limed the area. However, it’d still be Ph 5.5 or so.

Longy said:

pain master said:

What about a Camelia? You got some acid in yer soil?

More acid than i deserve but i have already limed the area. However, it’d still be Ph 5.5 or so.

the honey eaters love camellias too, and there is a big range to choose from.

pain master said:

Longy said:

Happy Potter said:

Plant a passionfruit ?
Feed the cat to the fish. Karma

The passionfruit is along the next bit of fence.
(You need to understand i have a total property boundary of about 400 metres or so. )
I’d have to pelletise the cat.
Methods???

pelletise? It would have to be dried/dehydrated first… then maybe run through the new mincer that Lucky bought???

WHHHAAAAAA Not listening, not listening.
Save the cat, pelletise the owners.

Feijoa? If you can keep the fruit fly out of them.

Jaboticaba?

Longy said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

An Erythrina would look inneresting for a splash of colour… or even try a clumping kinda plant like Day Lillies or Canna Lillys?

I was going to suggest day lillies. They put up a good colour ful display. They do their own thing quietly with little upkeep necessary. Don’t care if they get a bit dry.

The only question was…will they be taller than the poinsettias or not?

Yes ditto the cannas PM suggested. Note that the others are in colour now, so winter flowering would be best.
I was thinking of a smallish single shrub or two, just to fill the gap. Height about 1.5m maximum.
What else flowers in Winter??

My Metrosideros.

Longy said:

pain master said:

What about a Camelia? You got some acid in yer soil?

More acid than i deserve but i have already limed the area. However, it’d still be Ph 5.5 or so.

then go your Rhody, Azalia, Camelia hardest!

bluegreen said:

Longy said:

pain master said:

What about a Camelia? You got some acid in yer soil?

More acid than i deserve but i have already limed the area. However, it’d still be Ph 5.5 or so.

the honey eaters love camellias too, and there is a big range to choose from.

I can’t see camellias in there. Doesn’t fit.

I just thought what about some old fashioned hedge roses? the ones with rosehips for long lasting colour and useful too for cordials and jams.

bluegreen said:

I just thought what about some old fashioned hedge roses? the ones with rosehips for long lasting colour and useful too for cordials and jams.

I can picture Longy now, stopping a bit of hard yakka to down an ice cold glass of rose-hip cordial.

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

I just thought what about some old fashioned hedge roses? the ones with rosehips for long lasting colour and useful too for cordials and jams.

I can picture Longy now, stopping a bit of hard yakka to down an ice cold glass of rose-hip cordial.

ROTFL!

The missus might like it though :)

In my experience, the chooks will train the cat, no worries and no need for human intervention…

What about dwarf citrus trees, say lemons and limes? Come in handy for the kitchen, and colour as long as the fruit linger…

Lilli Pillies, the edible kind? I like the hip roses idea as well…

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

I just thought what about some old fashioned hedge roses? the ones with rosehips for long lasting colour and useful too for cordials and jams.

I can picture Longy now, stopping a bit of hard yakka to down an ice cold glass of rose-hip cordial.

Try as I might I can’t picture it at all. LOL.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

I just thought what about some old fashioned hedge roses? the ones with rosehips for long lasting colour and useful too for cordials and jams.

I can picture Longy now, stopping a bit of hard yakka to down an ice cold glass of rose-hip cordial.

Try as I might I can’t picture it at all. LOL.

Just the hard yakka bit has put me off.
Some fair suggestions in there.
I will consider further.

I’m looking for a few in between, winter flowering plants to 2m high to plant between the orange
fence and the red foreground.
Be good if it was something i could eat, then i’d take some interest, but any old plant will do i guess.
Thought about hibiscus. Gardenias.
——————————
amaranthus flowers a deep red purple this time of year – well – autumn to now. hollyhocks of course – many different colours and some height.

edibles – have you got a lime tree or two?
northeast is too good to waste – berry bushes, gingers, lemon grass, fennel, rhubarb?

OK. I’ve gone thru the options you have given me.
I’ve moved the poinsettias to the middle leaving the space in the foreground.
So i now have orange trumpet vine on the fence, poinsettias in front of it and looking for a little un to put in front.
Amaranthus is a possibility, even if just short term, though flowering times here may not coincide with the other two.
Daylillies? Same thing.
A bit moist for the kalanchoes i reckon.
Camellias and azaleas are a great longer term option.
Roses are like ice creams to roos and they will have full access.
Nasturtiums are an excellent possibilty. I certainly can grow them.

I think the cat moves in this weekend sometime.

Sounds great Longy.
Some NG butterfly hybrid impatiens for colour ?

I think the cat moves in this weekend sometime.
——————————————-
Have you asked him, how he feels about the move?????

Longy said:

OK. I’ve gone thru the options you have given me.
I’ve moved the poinsettias to the middle leaving the space in the foreground.
So i now have orange trumpet vine on the fence, poinsettias in front of it and looking for a little un to put in front.
Amaranthus is a possibility, even if just short term, though flowering times here may not coincide with the other two.
Daylillies? Same thing.
A bit moist for the kalanchoes i reckon.
Camellias and azaleas are a great longer term option.
Roses are like ice creams to roos and they will have full access.
Nasturtiums are an excellent possibilty. I certainly can grow them.

I think the cat moves in this weekend sometime.

Nasturtiums would look good but they will probably climb over everything. Pig face might be an option but I don’t know their flowering season.

pomolo said:

Longy said:

OK. I’ve gone thru the options you have given me.
I’ve moved the poinsettias to the middle leaving the space in the foreground.
So i now have orange trumpet vine on the fence, poinsettias in front of it and looking for a little un to put in front.
Amaranthus is a possibility, even if just short term, though flowering times here may not coincide with the other two.
Daylillies? Same thing.
A bit moist for the kalanchoes i reckon.
Camellias and azaleas are a great longer term option.
Roses are like ice creams to roos and they will have full access.
Nasturtiums are an excellent possibilty. I certainly can grow them.

I think the cat moves in this weekend sometime.

Nasturtiums would look good but they will probably climb over everything. Pig face might be an option but I don’t know their flowering season.

provide puss with catnip in a spot you won’t care about/…

I think the nasturtiums will be easily controlled. I have them elsewhere and they don’t get too high up other plants. They have no tendrils so they should be right.
I haven’t met the cat.
I will not plant catnip or any other cat attractant. If i catch it, or any other cat in my yard. It’s gonna disappear.

Longy said:

I think the nasturtiums will be easily controlled. I have them elsewhere and they don’t get too high up other plants. They have no tendrils so they should be right.
I haven’t met the cat.
I will not plant catnip or any other cat attractant. If i catch it, or any other cat in my yard. It’s gonna disappear.

To be fair you should tell them.

bubba louie said:

Longy said:

I think the nasturtiums will be easily controlled. I have them elsewhere and they don’t get too high up other plants. They have no tendrils so they should be right.
I haven’t met the cat.
I will not plant catnip or any other cat attractant. If i catch it, or any other cat in my yard. It’s gonna disappear.

To be fair you should tell them.

I’m sure he’ll let the cat know.

bubba louie said:

Longy said:

I think the nasturtiums will be easily controlled. I have them elsewhere and they don’t get too high up other plants. They have no tendrils so they should be right.
I haven’t met the cat.
I will not plant catnip or any other cat attractant. If i catch it, or any other cat in my yard. It’s gonna disappear.

To be fair you should tell them.

Yeah i will when they come looking for it…..

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Longy said:

OK. I’ve gone thru the options you have given me.
I’ve moved the poinsettias to the middle leaving the space in the foreground.
So i now have orange trumpet vine on the fence, poinsettias in front of it and looking for a little un to put in front.
Amaranthus is a possibility, even if just short term, though flowering times here may not coincide with the other two.
Daylillies? Same thing.
A bit moist for the kalanchoes i reckon.
Camellias and azaleas are a great longer term option.
Roses are like ice creams to roos and they will have full access.
Nasturtiums are an excellent possibilty. I certainly can grow them.

I think the cat moves in this weekend sometime.

Nasturtiums would look good but they will probably climb over everything. Pig face might be an option but I don’t know their flowering season.

provide puss with catnip in a spot you won’t care about/…

I don’t think LF intends to make this cat comfortable.

Longy said:

bubba louie said:

Longy said:

I think the nasturtiums will be easily controlled. I have them elsewhere and they don’t get too high up other plants. They have no tendrils so they should be right.
I haven’t met the cat.
I will not plant catnip or any other cat attractant. If i catch it, or any other cat in my yard. It’s gonna disappear.

To be fair you should tell them.

Yeah i will when they come looking for it…..

Please don’t. I know what it’s like to lose a much loved pet. They’d much rather keep it inside I’m sure.

Under all that bluster I know how you love your dog. Imagine what they’d feel. Killing an animal without even giving them a chance to do the right thing is just plain heartless.

Longy said:

I think the nasturtiums will be easily controlled. I have them elsewhere and they don’t get too high up other plants. They have no tendrils so they should be right.
I haven’t met the cat.
I will not plant catnip or any other cat attractant. If i catch it, or any other cat in my yard. It’s gonna disappear.

Well the cat might give the Brown Assassin a new lease on life…it was just a thought…geez…

With the nastursiums, you can add their leaves to salads occasionally…

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

provide puss with catnip in a spot you won’t care about/…

I don’t think LF intends to make this cat comfortable.

My point was if the cat comes over, his behaviour could be controlled with the catnip…not tried it here …

OK. I’ll succumb to your suggestion Bubba.
I will still disappear the cat. (Never said i’d kill it)
It will disappear from my place, back to it’s owners place. Intact.
With an ultimatum.
I will word the ultimatum appropriately.
e.g. “I don’t want this wretched alien thing in my place anymore”.

However, the thread is about the new garden, which i mulched today in preparation for planting.. The cat is an annoying extra.

Longy said:

OK. I’ll succumb to your suggestion Bubba.
I will still disappear the cat. (Never said i’d kill it)
It will disappear from my place, back to it’s owners place. Intact.
With an ultimatum.
I will word the ultimatum appropriately.
e.g. “I don’t want this wretched alien thing in my place anymore”.

However, the thread is about the new garden, which i mulched today in preparation for planting.. The cat is an annoying extra.

Thank you. I knew you were a good guy.

Longy said:

OK. I’ll succumb to your suggestion Bubba.
I will still disappear the cat. (Never said i’d kill it)
It will disappear from my place, back to it’s owners place. Intact.
With an ultimatum.
I will word the ultimatum appropriately.
e.g. “I don’t want this wretched alien thing in my place anymore”.

However, the thread is about the new garden, which i mulched today in preparation for planting.. The cat is an annoying extra.

Suggest they build a cat run ? Cat runs should be law IMHO.
And, as there’s many plants that can make cats sick, suggest that they best keep kitty confined as your yard isn’t geared to cats.
If they are responsible pet owners, they’ll do the right thing.

Longy said:

OK. I’ll succumb to your suggestion Bubba.
I will still disappear the cat. (Never said i’d kill it)
It will disappear from my place, back to it’s owners place. Intact.
With an ultimatum.
I will word the ultimatum appropriately.
e.g. “I don’t want this wretched alien thing in my place anymore”.

However, the thread is about the new garden, which i mulched today in preparation for planting.. The cat is an annoying extra.

I;m glad kitty has been put on parole……