Australian Native Plants for Small Gardens: A Colourful Guide
Australian Native Plants for Small Gardens: A Colourful Guide If you’re dreaming of a thriving, flower-filled garden but only have a small courtyard, balcony, or patch of soil to work with — don’t worry. Many of Australia’s most charming native plants are perfectly...
Artist Residency at Mary Cairncross Reserve April 2025
Artist in Residence at Mary Cairncross Reserve I’m excited to share that I will be joining the Sunshine Coast Nature Sketchers as Artists in Residence at the Mary Cairncross Reserve in Maleny from 5 to 17 April 2025. I will be there every day of the residency to...
Discover Native Plants With Red Flowers for Your Garden
Discover Native Plants With Red Flowers for Your Garden Are you wondering which native plants with red flowers are best for enhancing your garden’s beauty and supporting native birds and bees? This article guides you through selecting the perfect native plants...
Boronia: A Beginner’s Guide – Plant of the Week
Australian Native Boronia A Beginner’s Guide Let me start by saying I am most certainly not a Boronia expert. I have killed many of these beautiful Australian native plants, therefore this is very much a guide for beginners and I hope it will help you to choose...
Dargan Hill Monarch – A Perennial Paper Daisy
Xerochrysum bracteatum ‘Dargan Hill Monarch’ An Australian Native Perennial Paper Daisy This week’s native plant of the week, Dargan Hill Monarch, is perhaps my all time favourite paper daisy for creating an Australian native cottage garden. With so many...
Guest Garden: Brewery Hill Native Garden
Guest Garden: Brewery Hill Native Garden Yesterday I had the great pleasure of visiting Brewery Hill Native Garden in Gympie. It was an open garden that I simply couldn’t miss as it was the last time Carolle was opening her garden to the public. I don’t...
Native Plant of the Week: Kangaroo Paw
This week’s native plant of the week is the iconic Australian Kangaroo Paw – surely an essential in any Australian garden, be it a bush garden, coastal garden, flower filled cottage garden or modern architectural design. While Kangaroo Paws are iconically...
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