What the Australian public wants to know about native plants and microclimate I wrote this article recently for the Australian Native Plant Society Garden Design Study Group. While it's perhaps not a topic for the average gardener, I hope you still find it...
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Guest Gardener: Rosella Rise Native Garden
This week I am delighted to feature my first guest gardener - you're in for a treat! This garden is one of my favourite Australian native gardens and a great demonstration of the floral spectacle that can be achieved with our unique flora. Deb's garden is on a...
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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 under large shrubs and...
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.
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 by an ideology, like...
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