Starting Tropical Garden, Could Use Your Help

T Tikiwahine Tiki Socialite Victoria, BC Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3295	T Tikiwahine Posted posted on Wed, Jun 22, 2005 5:09 PM kamaka, I would say you have a great start there. When I bought my home my main bed along one side was similar to yours. A straight boring rectangular bed bordered with railroad or landscaping ties. Rip them out and have a few cubic yards of soil delivered. It won't take more than 5 to give you a full, curvy raised bed to be proud of. You could plant to your heart's content there, and do some in pots for around the patio. I have some pots I re-plant with bright colour every year, just to mix things up a bit. With such a clean slate to work with, you could always add a pond to one corner, or beside the patio, tikis poking out from behind the foliage, etc. Lots of fun! I just bought 4 different species of bamboo(6 plants in total) and am trying to figure out how to deal with them(let them run rampant, box them in, brick them in, pot them in etc.)

kamaka,
I would say you have a great start there. When I bought my home my main bed along one side was similar to yours. A straight boring rectangular bed bordered with railroad or landscaping ties. Rip them out and have a few cubic yards of soil delivered. It won't take more than 5 to give you a full, curvy raised bed to be proud of. You could plant to your heart's content there, and do some in pots for around the patio.

I have some pots I re-plant with bright colour every year, just to mix things up a bit.

With such a clean slate to work with, you could always add a pond to one corner, or beside the patio, tikis poking out from behind the foliage, etc. Lots of fun!

I just bought 4 different species of bamboo(6 plants in total) and am trying to figure out how to deal with them(let them run rampant, box them in, brick them in, pot them in etc.)

Post #167454 by Tikiwahine on Wed, Jun 22, 2005 5:09 PM