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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...

Native Plant of the Week : Lemon Myrtle

This week’s feature plant is a versatile Australian native plant that can tick so many boxes in your garden design. Native bush food, screening out the neighbours, hardy pot plant, lush foliage, beautiful flowers, growing in sun to shade in most soil types - it ticks...

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 beautiful...

Australian native plants for indoors

Many people I speak to don’t realise that there are many Australian native plants that do well indoors. Wandering around our local nursery I realise there is likely a very good reason for that - not a single native plant I spotted included that on the label. That may...

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 and pots were filled...

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 with...

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 also flower...

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, also called Laurentia or Rock Isotome, is the only plant I have in drifts in my...

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 Australia,...

Pollinator Week 2025: A Heartfelt Wrap-Up

Pollinator Week 2025: A Heartfelt Wrap-Up Celebrating bees, hoverflies, butterflies, and the gardeners who support them Pollinator Week 2025 has come to a close, and what a blooming, buzzing, joy-filled week it has been. This year, thousands of gardeners across...