What about planting around the dam with mainly native plants? Having the likes of Reeds, Tanika Lomandra, Pennstripe Pennisetum, , Birds Nest Ferns, etc etc. These are less maintenance and more weather resistant hardy plants that look great and handle the local weather. The pond and the surrounding vegetation makes it a standout feature in itself and makes everything else have that much more appropriation. As well as less chance of getting clippings in the water. Could also help with balls rolling into water 😅
Zoysia around the Dam would look awesome. Maybe a mainstream drought tolerant variety so viewers could see it perform with no water for the rough areas. Keep up the content mate, helps the week pass with multiple videos!
Aquatic plants in the dam will take care of the algae as well. Lily pads or floating island planters work very well and improve the water quality and habitability of the dam and require no energy and nearly no maintenance. Might be worth considering. :)
Leave the reeds mate. They will keep your dam environment healthy and make a lot less work in the long run too! You could load in a huge amount of different indigenous water plants that will filter the water and require zero maintenance. A couple of native fish will keep the water clean too. It would look amazing.
Definitely some zoysia matrella round the dam and leave it uncut. I visited turfco in Berry and they have their sir grange on display in a mini golf setup. Looks very cool around bunkers as well as dams.
I’m another for planting some local native grasses around, might help stop a few balls rolling into the dam. Or even just half of it, but take into consideration it may invite wildlife that you probably don’t want on the green for example your ducks lol If there’s any other dams or possibilities of dams you could plant that out so it attracts them to that instead. Regardless it’s going to look really nice
Maybe the fairways could be surrounded by natural grasses and vegetation (the current trend in golf course design here in the US)? Plants native to your region in Australia? Been watching for a long time…love the videos!
I like the thought train, is going to look wicked! Only thought on the erosion topic, would be a rogue storm and washes silt into the dam by the high number. But you got to risk it for the biscuit so respect 👌🏻🤙🏻
If you’re looking for all year green around the dam I’d do fescue. Also for the rough fescue will definitely look better than Bermuda maybe mix some flowers with the fescue in the rough too
I’m running sir grange Zoysia in my backyard. It’s like a carpet but slow growing. Which sucks when my dog pees in winter and burns the grass. Go sir grange for the edge of the dam, it only grows to a certain height and then stops.
Just an opinion, you may be set on grass around the pond, but I think if you put some bigger rocks around, it would look killer. But yea, a really nice fountain features with some lights shooting up would look amazing at night!
I agree maybe a few native longer grasses But deffs some bigger rocks and try to turn it into a bit of a feature. There's plenty of turf everywhere else good to have a bit of variety with the plantings and landscaping
Further to this some larger rocks on the side closer to the green may act as a bit of a deterrent to the ducks. If you make one side easier access for them they may prefer to congregate on that side?
Making the surrounds cool season as well will be tough with bermuda right next to it. The thing that helps keep bermuda out of the green is the extremely low mow height… you won’t have that in the surrounds to fairway transition.
Could you do a similar sand beach in front of the green like the par 3 at jcb 17th? Should be low Maintenence I would presume but also add that different colour from the tee? Kids could also play down there too. When your not shooting of course😅
Speaking of irrigation... Would you recommend a professionally designed and installed subsurface drip irrigation system for a home lawn? I'm building on top of a hill in one of the windiest parts of NSW that gets put on water restrictions pretty quickly during drought. Looking at this as a viable option to get the most out of water but don't know if I'm just buying into the marketing hype and it's a dud approach.
Just do bermuda and zoysia all around maybe some fine fescue in the really shady spots. You’ll thank yourself later much less water. The fescue will get choked out by the bermuda eventually any way.
Tiftuf is a hybrid bermuda, you cannot seed it, you can only sod or sprig. Hybrid bermuda does not produce seed and even when it does it is sterile seed.
I would do rocks and sand around the dam. I think it would look nice and other than some weeds that would come up it would be less maintenance for you. Everything is looking amazing. 👍🏻💚🦸🏻♂
