The Watersmart Garden has been developed based on two key themes:
The garden consists of five themed garden 'rooms' separated by stunning steel walls that have been laser cut with different rain patterns.
Display Garden
This garden features a collection of colourful and bold plants from around the world set in a raised steel garden.
Plant list
1. Panicum virgatum - Heavy metal
2. Yucca recurvifolia - Yucca
3. Rose - Snow Carpet
4. Sedum - Autumn joy
5. Rosemary - Blue Lagoon
6. Linum perenne - Perennial Blue Flax
7. Yucca elephantipes - Yucca
8. Senecio cineraria ‘Cirrus’
9. Perovskia atriplicifolia - Little Spires
10. Salvia nemorosa ssp. - Tesquicola
11. Salvia leucantha - santa barbara
12. Santolina rosmarinifolia - Green lavendar cotton
13. Lepetchinia salviae - Picture sage
Future Garden
The future garden explores different mulches and water limiting irrigation types. This is a vertical garden using climbing plants, ideal for narrow spaces.
Plant list
1. Kennedia rubicunda - Dusky coral pea
2. Rosa banksia - Pearl
3. Hibbertia scandens - Guinea flower
Surfaces Garden
This garden features a striking collection of succulents planted into circular steel planters mulched with recycled brick and set within a deck. The deck is a lawn alternative while still allowing rainwater to permeate the ground below.
Plant list
1. Dracaena draco - Dragons Blood Tree
2. Senecio serpens - Blue chalk sticks
3. Echeveria - Violet Queen
4. Coyyledon orbiculate
5. Echeveria - Blue Curl
6. Aloe barberae - Tree Aloe
7. Aloe dichitoma - Quiver tree
8. Aloe plicatilis - Fan Aloe
9. Agave attenuata - Dragon tree agave or century plant
Indigenous Garden
The plants in this garden are all local Werribee residents, showing that it is possible to have a beautiful native garden that benefits local wildlife and guarantees no introduced plants escape into the natural environment. Check with your local council for a plant list of your area.
Plant list
1. Teucrium racemosum - Grey Germander
2. Goodenia gracilis - Slender Goodenia
3. Calocephalus citreus - Lemon Beauty Heads
4. Bulbine bulbosa - Bulbine Lily
5. Chrysocephalum semipapposum - Clustered Evelasting
6. Nicotiana suaveolens - Scented or Austral Tobacco
7. Dichanthium sericeum - Silky Blue-Grass
8. Chrysocephalum apiculatum - Common Everlasting ,Yellow Buttons
9. Dianella revoluta - Spreading Flax Lily
10. Wahlenbergia stricta - Tall Bluebell
11. Bracteantha viscosa - Sticky Everlasting
12. Banksia marginata - Silver Banksia
13. Carpobrotus rossii - Noonflower
14. Ptilotus spathulatus - Pussy Tails
15. Glycine clandestina - Twining Glycine
16. Eutaxia microphylla - Small- Leafed Eutaxia
17. Brachyscome multifida - Cut-Leaf Daisy
18. Stylidium graminifolium - Grass Trigger Plant
19. Stipa elegantissima - Feather Spear-grass
20. Lomandra longifolia - Mat-rush
Chirnside Cottage Garden
Reminiscent of days gone by, this garden complements the cottage with a buffalo grass lawn and low hedges of geranium and wormwood. The buffalo grass has been used,as it is very hardy. If you need to have a lawn choose a drought tolerant variety.
Plant list
1. Euonymus japonicus - Japanese spindle tree
2. Buffalo grass, Sir Walter
3. Artemisia arborescens - Wormwood
4. Pelargonium spp.
5. Portulaca - Hot spots
Wirribi Yaluk Walk
On exiting the Watersmart Garden, the path winds past the historic Chirnside Woolshed. Here you can get a glimpse of the restored woolshed before wandering down to the revegetated wetland and Werribee River. Take time to observe the abundant wildlife and enjoy the serenity of this natural area.
Please note this boardwalk is closed over the winter months and will re-open on 24 September 2011.
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