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Bridget's Sustainable Terrace

Requirements

Bridget lives in an Inner City Surburb of Sydney. Her new penthouse aparment has a generous concrete walled north facing terrace with a backdrop of the Sydney Skyline.

She would like to create a sustainable comfortable garden incorporating:

• Barbecue
• Practical/Waterproof Surface to Walk and Relax with Friends on (eg tiles, real or artificial lawn, decking, paving, painted/stencilled/insulated concrete, artificial wood decking)
• Sydney Local Provenance Vegetation.
• Vegies and Fruit Trees
• Butterfly Friendly and Mosquito unfriendly
• Jacuzzi/Spa
• Lighting
  • LED Bollards
  • LED Fairy Lights
• Worm Farm/Composting, mulch, soil conditioning
• Water
  • Indoor and Outdoor Efficiency
  • Recycling & Rainwater Collection and Storage
  • Drainage from Watering Plants and Rain
  • Watering Plants/Cleaning
  • Energy Waste
  • Hills Hoist (or modern equivalent)
  • Shade
  • Strata and Council Requirements

  Plant Species List

  • Trees: NSW Christmas Bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum), Native Frangipani(Hymenosporum flavumn), Lillipilli, Is there a suitable Eucalypt?, Fruit Trees (Lemon,Lime)
  • Creepers: Passionfruit, Happy Wanderer (Hardenbergia)
  • Geraniums, Lavendar, Rosemary

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