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Noggins wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:47 pm Not only do mature Eucalypts suck all the moisture from the soil they also excrete a sap that blankets the soil underneath themselves for "This is Mine" growing.
I used to live where the eucalypts excreted a sap all over the roads giving beautiful traction and cornering in the summer but became like an ice rink with the first rain.


Ron

Greynomad wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:42 pm Until recently, there were 13 mature Eucalypts along our back fence. (The original owners apparently planted Eucalpts at 3ft intervals, judging by the stumps we've found!)
They were sucking all the moisture out of the soil, to the point we have a distinct line in the yard, beyond which we simply can't grow grass... (Not even weeds! )
Just before Christmas we had six trees removed, hoping that would improve our chances of gaining a lawn.
No such luck.
And we don't want to remove the last few shade trees.

So we've abandoned the idea of grass further south than the Maginot Grass Line... put this in instead.
Rock Garden.jpeg

Greynomad wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 9:34 pm PS to the BTW: There's three tonnes of river rocks there. Dumped into the end near Ollie by a small tip-truck, then spread by hand by both of us on our knees. Bed is 7.8m x 3.6m. Took us three days — all day.