It’s something that I started doing in my rental homes before we actually bought. My last rental home was in Lambton NSW and I left 3 separate gardens there, including a kerbside shade planting, when we left in 2015. Garden 1 featured my umbrella tree which had outgrown its pot so I planted it out, surrounded by small flowering plants. Garden 2 was a simple line of agapanthus that I had split off from the Council plants growing behind my back fence there. I chose the aggies because the location was a concrete heat sink and I judged them most likely to survive. Garden 3 was the front with Australian native shrubs to soften the brick facade. Then the kerbside planting, pictured above. They’ve removed the shrubberies there but the white bottlebrush still survives.
Do you leave legacy plantings?
Not since I got a letter of non compliance for putting in a semi permanent veggie box in an old rental. Now I don’t add value to properties I rent as it’s more hassle than its worth. In my current rental I miss having space for gardening, I have no green spaces where I am at the moment, so I’ve started growing mushrooms in the dingy and wet concrete corridor in the rear of my unit.
There are some miserable landlords around. I’m so sorry this happened to you. Gardening is a joy.
Very nice, I like the idea, but we’ve gotten in trouble at a few places for cleaning the gardens up and putting new plants to replace the dead ones. In the end we just focused on pot plants we could take with us.