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Flowering natives for shade
If you have a shady spot in your garden you can still fill it with colourful Australian native flowers! Here are a few of my favourites growing in the shaded positions in my garden. Most are on the south side of high fences or buildings, planted...
Native Plant of the Week: Pelargoniums
The Australian native Pelargoniums look stunning in my garden from the end of December. Every variety is blooming prolifically, filling the air with the smell of their sweet nectar and bringing numerous pollinators to my patch. Australia has about...
Plant of the Week – Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Gold’
Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Gold’ is the star in my garden from late Spring into Summer. This stunning variety is from the Tall and Tough range created by Angus Stewart, and those two words describe the uses for this Kangaroo Paw beautifully. ...
Native Plant of the Week – Isotoma axillaris
This week’s favourite started flowering in my garden in late October and is still looking beautiful in mid December, even after unseasonal heavy late spring rains. Isotoma axillaris is the only plant I have in drifts in my garden, because it really...
Paper daisies for Australian native gardens
Everyone who follows me on social media will know I am a big fan of paper daisies. I love their crinkly stiff paper texture - they are very tactile plants! The way the blooms fold up tightly each night or in rain is rather special to watch.. They...
10 small native plants for Australian cottage gardens
When many people think of Australian native plants the first that come to mind are large flowering shrubs like grevillea and banksia and acacia. But if you focus on smaller species you will have so much more diversity, and room to provide flowers for bees.
Designing my cottage garden with Australian native plants
When I first started out I didn’t fully intend to create a cottage style garden with Australian natives, but there is no denying that is what my garden has become! I have always loved the romanticism of a cottage garden. In my 20s my first gardens...
My Garden: An Australian Native Cottage Garden Paradise
I can't really remember when it happened. That moment I decided to dedicate my little patch of suburbia to our glorious Australian native cottage garden plants. I didn't set-out with a concrete plan from the start. It wasn't even a decision driven...
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