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Costa meets a young gardening couple who have created a habitat haven and productive paradise four storeys up.
City living offers many conveniences โ but also many challenges for keen gardeners.
In busy Edgecliffe, right in the heart of Sydney, a rooftop garden overlooking a busy train line is the only space available to Philip Georgiou and Ian Belgiorno-Zegna, but theyโve still managed to carve out a productive, potted palace to enjoy outdoors.
โWeโre really lucky to have this space,โ says Phil.
The total area is 350 square metres โ and 200 square metres of that is the roof garden. Some is paved and some has decking, but all the plants โ from tiny succulents to olive trees โ are in pots.
โIโll use the herbs from here โ we use the rosemary nearly every night,โ says Ian. โPhil got me onto the native trees and Iโm eating lilly-pilly berries now.โ
Their Eureka lemon (Citrus limon cv.) tree looks really healthy. โWe had lavender underneath, but we took it out and itโs really taken off,โ says Ian. Costa agrees thatโs a good move because lemons donโt like any competition around their shallow roots.
Costa spots a tumbler compost bin: โBecause you canโt put in on the ground, this is really appropriate for this space,โ he says. Turns out it was a gift from Phil to Ian for his birthday!
Theyโve also joined the ShareWaste scheme after seeing in on Gardening Australia. They receive donations of other peopleโs garden scraps to make compost to use on their garden.
Costa checks out the compost and says moisture wise itโs perfect โ he advises mixing it into the soil after clearing a crop or spreading it around crops, making sure to cover with mulch to stop it drying out and killing the useful microbes in the compost.
โThen that compost will perform all those feeding and water-holding roles.โ
Ian and Phil are growing peas, silverbeet, carrots, rocket, pineapples, herbs succulents, cycads, cacti and plenty more.
They have done a lot of work to the roof area, which was all decking when they moved in. Some of the challenges include having to get an engineerโs report to check that the roof would sustain the weight of their many pots โ the large cube planters weigh more than a tonne by the time theyโre full of wet potting mix, and there are 13 of these alone, plus dozens of others.
Another issue was drainage โ they had to make sure all the water would drain into one corner.
The pair loves native plants and have nearly 20 grevilleas, plus callistemon, eucalyptus and banksia. Thereโs also lots of edible produce that they use in the kitchen. Philโs favourite is Grevillea rhyolitica โDeua Flameโ, which has a pretty, pendulous red flower and bright green leaves. He loves them because they flower all year around and attract loads of bees.
They ask Costa about how best to prune a bottlebrush tree to reduce the size without hacking it too much. Costa advises trimming back the flower spikes after flowering. โThat will keep it nice and dense,โ he says. Cutting any dieback from the centre will also encourage more light in, and hence more shoots.
The row of larger native plants offers the garden some privacy from neighbouring buildings and a nice view from the sitting room.
Ian makes a rosemary sugar syrup to use in cocktails, so Costa presents him with a lemon myrtle bush (Backhousia citriodora) that heโll be able to use for lemon-flavoured drinks, too.
#gardening australia#solarpunk#australia#rooftop garden#rooftop gardening#garden#gardening#Sydney#potted plants#raised garden beds#Gardening containers#ShareWaste#compost#kitchen scraps#garden scraps#Youtube
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reblog to share some mint with your followers. just don't let it escape containment, okay?
Edit as if 6/17: YโALL FAILED ME
#mint#peppermint#herbs#plants#transparent png#transparent background#plantblr#mint is to gardens what glitter is to craft areas#if it escapes containment it gets fucking everywhere and itโs impossible to get rid of
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The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995
#vintage#vintage interior#1990s#90s#interior design#home decor#outdoor#patio#garden#stonework#yellow#container garden#twig#furniture#country#Southwest#Los Angeles#Mission#style#home#architecture
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Begonia Fragrant Falls Peach.
#pennsylvania#flowers#garden#begonia#begonia fragrant falls peach#container gardening#july#summer#bloom scrolling#taken today
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Plant of the Day
Wednesday 28 August 2024
The cactus flowered, tender perennial, Dahlia 'Labyrinth' has been grown in containers either side of this bench to provide a touch of the exotic in the late summer and autumn.
Jill Raggett
#dahlia#pink flowers#root tuber#containers#bench#plants#horticulture#gardens#garden#inverness#botanic garden#botanic#tender#perennial
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Enjoy her.
#trailer park tom bombadil#gardening#trailerparktombombadil#gardenblr#gardeners on tumblr#flower garden#gardeners of tumblr#mobile home garden#trailer park garden#container gardening#garden cats#cats#cats of tumblr#big chungus#Mako the Hut
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Sealed up the greenhouse from earlier and added growlights. All running off the solarpanel.
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Hey, don't be sad. Seeds are sprouting today.
#these are the sugar snap peas and nu mex peppers#container gardening#urban gardening#plants#solarpunk#gardening
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I have officially seen my own patients for the first time! :D
I saw inpatient patients and street medicine patients yesterday, and today I got to see my own clinic patients! It feels like a milestone because the clinic patients in particular are the ones who are now establishing with me as their primary care doctor.
Anyway, that's the last day of residency orientation done with! This weekend is my last weekend as a free person and starting on Monday I'll be doing EM-peds for four weeks. We did a cute little last-day team bonding thing this afternoon and got to make our own succulent gardens, which was incredibly up my alley:
This has prompted me to finally look into proper succulent care, set up my remaining grow lights on a bookshelf, and repot my poor long-suffering jade plant to life alongside this little plant garden. And now I have a suitable place for, uh. Any more succulents I impulse purchase. :'D
#personal#dear diary#medical school#(well it's residency now but that was my tag haha)#residency#the hardest part is learning how to do everything on Cerner lmao#I sent a prescription to the printer instead of proposing it to my attending#and I was NOT THE ONLY ONE#apparently last year someone just stole her identity and submitted the prescription instead of proposing it#ENTIRELY on accident#gotta love the EMR#also our program director was like I WANNA SEE THESE GARDENS IN THREE YEARS DEAD OR ALIVE lol#I suspect I'm eventually gonna have to repot some of the plants into their own separate containers#so we'll see how it goes!
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#currrently growing potatoes and carlin peas together in a grow bag on the rooftop of my building#gardening#hopecore#hopepunk#solarpunk#peaceful revolution#anti capitalism#greenhorizon#climate change solutions#forestcore#naturecore#lunarpunk#plantblr#container gardening#plants
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Backyard container garden, year 2 (Summer โ23)
#my posts#cottagecore#hobbitcore#farmcore#container garden#gardening#harvest#curious fancy#slowliving#naturecore#cottage garden
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Deck & Patio Styles, 1996
#vintage#vintage interior#1990s#90s#interior design#home decor#deck#sliding doors#garage#lighting#container garden#terra cotta#cottage#style#home#architecture
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The names of both the thunbergia vine and the begonias include the word peach. They go well together.
#pennsylvania#flowers#garden#container gardening#thunbergia#begonia#begonia fragrant falls peach#thunbergia alata peach#august#summer
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Plant of the Day
Sunday 8 September 2024
The drooping, crimson tassel-like racemes of tiny flowers of Amaranthus caudatus (love-lies-bleeding, chenile plant, Inca wheat, lady's riding whip, velvet flower, cat tail, tassel flower) are at their most dramatic at the end of summer and early autumn. This short-lived frost-tender plant is popular in summer bedding displays and for containers.
Jill Raggett
#amaranthus#love-lies-bleeding#chenile plant#Inca wheat#lady's riding whip#velvet flower#cat tail#tassel flower#plants#horticulture#gardens#garden#container#red flowers#annuals
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They return ๐ฅ๐
#succulents#gardening#microgarden#plant#succulent#container gardens#joy of gardening#plants#container#sempervivium#chicks and hens#winter color
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