How the front fence should look

These palm garden pics are from Booval Shopping Fair. I want the front fence to look like this, with wide garden beds. I have palms to plant but with no rain for so long, the ground is like concrete - not the best time to be sculpting out garden arrangements.

Pink trumpet tree

I bought one of these online from Daley's fruit nursery (NSW), and they sent it. I put it in the front but it will have to be moved, I think, so that the display is used more to block the traffic from viewing the front of the house. It's situated currently a bit more 'round the corner' where it's usefulness will not be quite as advantageous. Actually, maybe not - the trunk is spindly, so perhaps it can stay where it is.

It's only tiny just now but hopefully will grow like one of the lovely specimens I have seen around, especially at Oxley.

The Oxley lovely (outside Mr Sparky's electrical):

Update 22 March 2019 - It died some time ago, but I am going to try again. Closest nursery that has it is in Kenmore.

Mum's red parrot tree

When outside watering this morning, I happened to notice the noise from across the road, from birds in the trees. Mum's red parrot tree is flowering - the birds love it! Me going to get one of those (not sure where to plant it yet), but not until the rains make the ground a bit more receptive.

The red flowers at the top are a lovely rich colour. Hers has been trimmed to an uneven shape (that's Mum for you), but I like the balanced look (see example below). It's also a fairly low-brancher, so I think I will plant to block the road-view from the house.

I have asked for one, when they become available through Daley's Nursery:

Ixora

The orange ixora next door is tall and flowering - mine is barely hanging on. I water it a lot - maybe they prefer it drier? I don't think next door water theirs at all. Maybe mine is a dwarf variety? Maybe the 'pink malay' colour does not do as well? The orange and red varieties are the ones that seem to proliferate all over town. Hmmm.

This is theirs.