The Jindee streetscapes are designed to encourage individual design, not only through the stunning home frontages with welcoming verandahs but also through the gardens, which adds the perfect finishing touch to your home.
With bright bursts of colour and whimsical charm, as you stroll around Jindee you will notice plenty of beautiful landscaping, reflecting the homeowner’s personal style, Darryl, a founding resident of Jindee, is a shining example of unique landscaping with his carefully curated native garden.
Darryl has always had a great love of gardening and all things nature. Since moving to Australia from New Zealand, Darryl has been inspired by the Indigenous Australian flora and fauna local to the area.
“Everything in my garden is native to Australia except the thyme and the parsley. The plants are mostly native to Western Australia, particularly South-West Australia.”
Drought-resistant and sculptural, Darryl’s landscaping features a harmonious spectrum of native Australian foliage. He wanted something that was colourful, easy to maintain and welcoming to natural wildlife.
“The great thing about a native garden is that you don’t have to change the soil as these plants like sand. Native gardens are fairly low maintenance and once they are established, I won’t need to water them.”
From street-side, Darryl’s native garden is a sea of plant forms, layers of textural foliage in spectacular colourful clusters, leading up to his verandah. His garden bed plant selection although, more natural and random in placement, has been meticulously thought-out.
Perched on his charming verandah are symmetrically uniform pots, brimming with Purple Hopbushes, prized for their rich purple leaves are a fast-growing screening bush which will create a private space on his verandah through thoughtful plant selection. and interspersed, Daryl has included Grevillea, also known as Spider Flowers, which are an evergreen shrub with bold red-hued blooms.
His choice of native ground cover includes Everlasting Daisies that feature a stunning, brightly coloured paper daisy in a myriad of colours and Snow-in-Summer which displays a blanket of pristine white flowers, reminiscent of snowfall.
Darryl’s garden bed also features a display of native trees, from the more common Banksia, which is easily recognised by its unusual flower spikes and fruiting ‘cones’, the Red Flowering Gum that is covered in delightful clusters of red, pink, or orange flowers to Rock Fig, which is commonly known as Native Fig, which produces delicious, sweet red figs.
Darryl’s native plants flower at different times of the year so not only he but also the Jindee community can enjoy all year round.
As well as loving Australian native flora, Darryl is also an avid birdwatcher. Strolling past Darryl’s welcoming verandah, it’s hard not to notice the chipper sound and flutter of birds enjoying his spectacular array of native Australian plants and charming birdbath.
“There are over 800 different species of birds in Australia, so that became my new interest with a lot of camping, particularly when I lived in Queensland. I find birds are extraordinary and beautiful creatures, even crows”.
From tiny, cheerful little Willie Wagtails, Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos to Spotted Turtle-Doves Darryl’s native garden is brimming with wonderful wildlife.
‘Some of the plants also attract Lerps which the birds eat, we have a pair of butcher birds that fly around the estate that love the garden. They are like small magpies.’
Darryl’s passion and consideration for natural wildlife, has allowed him to create a unique natural sanctuary that is reflective of his own interests and style.
“This is my seventh garden and my first native garden and it’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a while, and it gives me great pleasure.”