I am just about done the tortoise paddock!!! I have been working feverishly; preparing the soil, pruning bushes and trees, removing refuse, digging out old stumps and chunks of concrete, enstalling plastic chicken wire over the chain link and securing the inner perimeter with lanscaping ties and cinderblocks, and I ordered the plants yesterday. I have two more sides to finish attatching wire to and some blocks to put around the perimeter and then I am done. The paddock is 20'X21' square and I believe 5' high. I have for the planting:
2 needle palms
1 dwarf palmetto
varigated canna
canna hybrid
2 basjoo banana trees
3 colocasia black magic
1 colocasia gigantea thailand strain
3 colocasia pink china
1 colocasia coffee cups
2 alocasia zebrina
2 colocasia elepaio
some white mulberry
1 yet to be bought black mission fig
and assorted forageing weeds
I will post pix when the planting is done and then repost them, when the plants have grown in, for a before and after affect.....I am giddy with the excitement of how it will all look, when grown in and lush with huge, tropicalesque leaves!
2 needle palms
1 dwarf palmetto
varigated canna
canna hybrid
2 basjoo banana trees
3 colocasia black magic
1 colocasia gigantea thailand strain
3 colocasia pink china
1 colocasia coffee cups
2 alocasia zebrina
2 colocasia elepaio
some white mulberry
1 yet to be bought black mission fig
and assorted forageing weeds
I will post pix when the planting is done and then repost them, when the plants have grown in, for a before and after affect.....I am giddy with the excitement of how it will all look, when grown in and lush with huge, tropicalesque leaves!
