General_Failure posted:

I couldn't find a thread for asking about plants so I'm going to post here.

In case I'm wrong, here's a picture so the post isn't a complete waste.


Some kind of peach tree. It had two friends but one died of what I suspect to be termites and the other from ???
Back story. We bought the house off the bank 5 or so years ago as a deceased estate. It had been sitting vacant a couple of years before that. The garden was in poor shape when we got it. For many reasons in the last month is really the first bit of work we have been able to put into bringing the yard back to life.

This work unfortunately involved cutting down all the bottlebrushes for allergy reasons. I won't lie. I really, really hated doing that. It's also really upset my youngest child and kind of broke him. He tries to climb the pile of branches that is made of the trees he used to climb It's also left the front of the yard, and some bits against the house horribly exposed. I'm kind of desperate to find trees to replace them.

My requirements are:
*Relatively non toxic.
*Not allergy nightmares.
*No thorns or other real nasties.
*Nice foliage, blossoms or whatever.
*Doesn't grow very tall.
*Fairly dense branches / foliage for privacy and shade.
*Can live in clay.
*Drought / heat / sun resistant.

I live in Australia on the plains by the way. Depending on who you talk to it could be called the outback.

Fun list, hey?
Any ideas what meets all these requirements?

robotindisguise posted:

It's about 10 feet from the house. There was no drainage issue for the last 3 years, but a few months ago neighbor had a big load of fill dirt brought in...didn't know what any of it was for, but I peeked over my fence this morning (due to the ridiculous flooding) and found out he raised the ground and he added a drain that diverts probably 3/4ths of the runoff from his roof into what used to be a swale along the property line.

Not sure if I explained that right, but there used to be a big flat area between houses. He turned his side of the swale into a hill and rerouted all of his gutters on the West, South, and East sides of his home to run through this new hill and empty out a few inches from my fence aimed directly into my yard.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Close. It's a Philodendron. Probably P. bipinnatifidum, but it's hard to tell leaves apart when they're still small.

there wolf posted:

Lemon tree?

Synthbuttrange posted:

Amara posted:

Is there a guide for indoor air-filtering plants that do okay in relatively dim and cool conditions? I don't care about pretty much any properties except that 1) it improves air quality and 2) it grows even with indirect light during the day and only a little fluorescent light in the evening. And I guess a few different ones for some variety?

Marchegiana posted:

There's also the unkillable pothos

"another study posted:

Our results suggest that active interaction with indoor plants can reduce physiological and psychological stress compared with mental work. This is accomplished through suppression of sympathetic nervous system activity and diastolic blood pressure and promotion of comfortable, soothed, and natural feeling

Nephzinho posted:

Nettle Soup posted:

Forget goats, chickens will decimate anything you let them near. Plants, grass, other (smaller) birds. You'll have a barren wasteland before you know it!