Landscaping Elements Needed for Your Tweed Heads Home

| Friday, April 29, 2011
By Nia Lawrence


Landscaping in the beautiful Tweed Heads can be very rewarding. This Australian tourist spot near the Gold Coast is one of the loveliest islands surrounded by some of the best Aussie beaches. So you can be sure nothing looks better here than tropical inspired landscape constructions. When it's tropical, it has to be colorful, creative, and very much alive. If you own a beach side home or not, you can still have a resort-like area. Imagine that it will look more like a resort if you own a pool, too.

When it comes to tropical landscaping, one element to have is a palm tree. A palm tree is tall, well structured, nicely hued, and easy to maintain in hot climates. Among the plants, it's one that's always used for landscaping. It's the perfect centerpiece for rock gardens, ones where you have the soils piled up and line with stones, and surrounded by smaller plants. The palm tree goes well in the middle, or you can have three with one on each side. Mulches are also important in landscaping in Tweed Heads. These are not just the decorative items you see in rock gardens that look like grass, but these also lock in moisture and keep the soil free from weeds and erosion. Most mulches are brown. But it would be better if you got the colored ones to make your garden lovelier and more interesting.

Another important element is a walkway. For a resort looking home, your walkway should not be a long, winding cemented pavement. It should come in square tiles or cements lined over stones. Speaking of which, stones and rocks play a vital role in your garden. Besides using them on landscaped soils, you can stock up rocks of various sizes and make it look like a decorative structure in the garden. It's up to you `whether to place a water pump inside of it or not, in order to create a mini fountain.

When doing tropical landscaping in Tweed Heads, it's impossible not to have flowering plants. The best to have are flowering shrubs, the perennial ones. They live long, are easy to maintain, and can easily withstand a warm climate. They're puffy structures and short heights make them great for a landscaped garden as well. Some of these great flowering shrubs are Virginia Bluebells, White Baneberry shrubs, Hibiscus, etc. Flowers make a garden extra vibrant and pretty. Tweed Heads is rich in flora and fauna so your new garden will just fit right in.

And if you decide to do more mini gardens and terraces, you ought to have pure green perennials too, to add volume and make the garden look healthy. Along with all the other elements, you can have the perfect Tweed Heads garden.




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