Which plants?

So I've finished my garden bed I've been building for my place. Came up quite nicely I think.. Yes, I have since mowed the grass since then

Now I need some suggestions on what plants to put in there. Want something pretty low maintenance as I don't have much time to spend on watering/etc.

Going to put a few small palms in there I think, but after any other suggestions. It's about 15m x 2m so fair bit of space to play with.

Location gets about 6 hours solid sunlight a day, rest is in shade.

 

Everything gets Yukkas for me. I bought a place with Yukkas, and now I just cut the tops off them all when I want a new garden and stick the tops in the ground. They grow.


Edit: I didn't buy a place with them. I bought three for three pots. They have since filled three gardens, along with a few that I took cuttings off elsewhere along the way.

 

Yukkas are hard to kill, if you just want something green then you can't go wrong.

Myself I either like a native garden or one that is productive - fruit trees etc. Not exactly like maintenance.

From the photo there is 3 spans of fencing behind the garden, if it's 15m like you say then it's pretty sparse on the upright fence posts. I thought 2.4 to 3m spacing for uprights is standard. Can anyone tell me?

 

yukkas are too spiky, avoid. palms also suck

 

Is that your backyard ? Already have a vege patch? A front yard vege patch is cool too.
A few dwarf fruit trees and suitable veges for this time of year.
Yukkas are super easy to grow and maintain , bit boring though.

 

I tend to use the same plants on all of my properties so that I can make cuttings from them and grow them for future properties. It mostly a combination of natives and succulents. Here are some of the plants that I use:

Medium and Small Shrubs
Buxus Faulkner
Murraya Min a Min
Nandina domestica
Pittosporum Shorty
Spirea cantoniensis
Abelia grandiflora Dwarf
Crassula arborescens

Groundcovers / Climbers
Erigeron karvinskianus
Trachelospermum Tricolour

Tuft Plants
Dietes bicolor
Lomandra Crackerjack
Liriope Stripy White

 

Palms are perfect if you are going for a 1970s look. Otherwise avoid.

What about Lilly Pillies (can get dwarf versions), murraya (great fragrance when in flower) and even Chinese star jasmine as a climber or ground cover.

 

I have lilly pillies and/or murray a in all my places, but someone needs to hedge them and then trim the hedge. No issues to date, but its easy to see happening.

Actually, I have a murraya in my new place. Im trimming it tomorrow with a chainsaw. 5-6 years of neglect

 

Yukkas seem to be in every new reno I see up here... I have a couple in pots, they are hard to kill though.

That is side, prop is close to north facing so it gets mainly sun from 9 to 3. Most vegetables would die I think due to the heat, and not quite enough shade there. I could probably get them to grow with enough work, but low maintenance is the key for me. The many birds/crows around here would probably make short work of them too.

Not that unhappy with the 70's look, I live in QLD they are everywhere House is also 60 years old so I'm not necessarily going for ultra-modern here.

Thanks all for the suggestions, I will have a look at those and see what I like. Will go for a mix of things. I'm not a huge gardener, but likewise I like something more interesting than plain grass.

 

Are they thing and sparse or dense? I'm pretty happy with my murraya because they are dense and good for screening the front yard. I'm going to add liriope as a short hedge to give it layered look.

@gman65 i would avoid yukka as they are hard to kill, very hard to kill. you can have shrubs and groundcover....the raised garden bed does make it look like a vegie garden. or maybe just have big potted plants ..yukka in pots will make it look good.