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Front yard landscaping advice

rff91
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Front yard landscaping advice

We recently moved into a house in Perth and have a very sad looking front yard. 
My plan is to remove all the weeded area, place a line of bushes along the fence line for some privacy, install 4 raised garden beds (for which I’ll also add some shade to) and the remainder of the area to be gravel/pebbles with some stepping stones. 

I’m looking for some advice on firstly how best to gravel/pebble the area to avoid future weeds. Can you lay some sort of concrete type product and then add gravel/pebbles on top? Or lay weed matting then gravel/pebbles and then some sort of product to fill the gaps? Does any type of option like this exist?

 

Additionally I’m looking for advice on what sort of privacy bush I could plant along the fence line that would grow to approx 2metres, something fairly thick to give privacy. We are located in Perth so it would need to be able to handle heat, the soil is basically sand but weeds grow insanely well in it, we’ve already gone through and removed a lot and sprayed and they’re still coming back. 

any ideas you could share would be appreciated, thank you 

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