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?