Yeap colour bond, pick a colour you like and you’re set.
Looks better, lasts longer.
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If you’ve ever had to push a heavy person in a wheelchair on uneven pavers, you’d understand.
So why comment on that post but not smooths clear death trap back yard?
Came in here expecting comments on “weid” killers.
Pleasantly surprised.
Anyone into composting? I need your help.
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Don’t like colorbond fences either. We replaced our old timber fence with timber again but have used gal steel posts set in concrete and our other fences have concrete posts. Timber out of the ground does not rot quickly and lasts a fair while.
The most recent is about 5 years old and looking good and the other is about 15 years old and is fine as well.
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all the timber fences I see just end up looking gross after a couple of year. colour bond all the way.
Although in the longer term, concrete canker can be a problem with those posts.
yeah fair call, definitely depends on the style of house
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Not sure what you mean. We moved here 25 years ago and the fences weren’t new then. The concrete posts on our side fences are still fine but we need to replace the railings and palings this year though.
Also in reply to Alex, unpainted timber paling fences blend into your garden better as the timber naturally ages, looks much better than colourbond.
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I had some, could have been close to 30yo , where the concrete started crumbling. I was told it was concrete canker or cancer.
Agree with you on the timber, better than industrial look and better for shrubs and plants, birds darting in and out.
I got sucked into colorbond one side as those neighbours so desperately wanted it, the result was looking out on something like a container; the other side, with a timber fence with evergreen flowering shrubs and trees, bird paradise, absorbs sound, pleasant to look out on in cold winter days.
I inherited some nandinas already planted . They are great and the little blue wrens love balancing on the branches.
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By all means cut any vegetation thats growing over your fence, but be carefull throwing the debris back over.
If I remember correctly, that practice was due to people cutting fruit trees and keeping the fruit in bygone years. The fruit belonged to the tree owner and had to be returned.
Not so much the case these days.
Well truely well alive in Tasmania as I had been told many times with border trees, branches cut and thrown back over and told I can’t do anything about it…hold my beer I cut the trees down all 5
So I got quite into this space lol. This is post-mow last week after a pretty some pretty crap winter conditions.
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Is that only 12 months, see you also got rid of the roses ? near the wall
Bit less actually, probably 9–10 months since getting started and 6-7 months since the proper hard work with it.
As for the roses - we took 4 out and replanted 2. Where the roses were we planted Lily Pillies for some screening between the road.
Thats uhh a narrow looking path you got there
Anyone got any tips for getting rid of onion weed. Is a proper ■■■■ in my experience.
Without massive scale sustained poisoning, or similar dramatic measures, it’s really tough.
Don’t pull it out, for starters. Even if you get the onion, you’ll always leave some of the roots in, and they’ll spawn multiple new plants. Recommended ways I’ve heard of dealing with it is to cover the whole area in black plastic for weeks til it dies, and/or digging up the top 6ich inches of soils and getting rid of it and the weeds with it.
I have a horrible time with it. My property is remnant bushland, but the neighbours don’t give a crap about weed control and it’s always coming through the fence, and because it’s distributed among natives that I’m trying to preserve, I can’t do any of the large-scale control measures above. What I normally do is get one of those dishwashing brushes with a sponge at the end and a reservoir in the handle for detergent. I fill the reservoir with Zero and then go around, treating each plant individually with poison and nipping the flower heads off at the same time to help limit the spread. It’s a control measure rather than something that’ll actually succeed in exterminating the stuff, but it helps keep it at bay a bit.
Also - it’s quite edible. It can sub for spring onions very well in most recipes - both the greens and the white bulb under the ground.
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ba is right about not going for colorbond. This will be a heat radiator that will cause trouble for plants in summer. Also a huge generator of CO2 for its production.
There is another option. We put that in nearly 20 years ago and still looks as good as it was them. I can’t rememebr what it’s called, I am in Europe now but can send you details when back next week.
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