This week’s native plant of the week provides essential colour in a Australian native cottage garden at a time of year when blooms can be hard to come by! Flowering most profusely through autumn and early winter, with sporadic blooms also in spring and summer, Crowea...
Plant of the Week
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...
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 7 native Pelargonium...
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. TALL Anigozanthos...
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 does look...
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