“Help! My (friend/husband/wife/etc) wants to plant an English style cottage garden. But I want to plant Australian natives. What do I do?” Firstly let me say, I get it. I love an English style cottage garden too. I love their meadow gardens, clipped hedges and cute...
Flowering Native Plants for Shade
Garden design, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Plants for Shade, Purple Flowers, White Flowers
My Favourite Plants for Shade - That Also Happen to be Native to Australia If you have a shady spot in your garden and you're looking for flowering plants for shade, you can fill it with colourful Australian native flowers! Let me show you how. Here are a few of my...
10 small native plants for Australian cottage gardens
Garden design, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Purple Flowers, Top Stories, White Flowers, Yellow Flowers
My top 10 small Australian native plants for flower filled meadow gardens, cottage gardens, courtyards, balconies and small garden spaces.
Designing my cottage garden with Australian native plants
Australian Native Gardens, Garden design, Native cottage garden, Paper Daisy, Pink Flowers, Purple Flowers, White Flowers
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...
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Guest Gardener: Rosella Rise Native Garden
by Rae | June 11, 2023 | Australian Native Gardens, Garden design, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Purple Flowers, Yellow Flowers | 2 Comments
Flowering Native Plants for Shade
by Rae | January 15, 2022 | Garden design, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Plants for Shade, Purple Flowers, White Flowers | 2 Comments
Christmas Gifts for Gardeners – Australian Edition
by Rae | November 27, 2023 | Christmas Gifts for Gardeners | 1 Comment
Plant an ‘English’ style cottage garden with natives
by Rae | October 20, 2022 | Australian Native Gardens, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Purple Flowers, Red Flowers, Top Stories, White Flowers, Yellow Flowers | 5 Comments
Procreate Garden Design & Affinity for Garden Design
by Rae | February 27, 2022 | Garden design | 3 Comments
Introducing my landscape and garden design brushes for Procreate and Affinity Designer. 150+ tree, shrub and plant assets so you can design faster.
Crowea – Native Plant of the Week
by Rae | March 20, 2022 | Australian Native Gardens, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Plant of the Week, White Flowers | 0 Comments
Native Plant of the Week: Pelargoniums
by Rae | January 1, 2022 | Australian Native Gardens, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Plant of the Week, White Flowers | 4 Comments
Australian Native Plants for Small Gardens: A Colourful Guide
by Rae | June 12, 2025 | Garden design, Small Gardens, Top Stories | 1 Comment
Dargan Hill Monarch – A Perennial Paper Daisy
by Rae | September 29, 2024 | Native cottage garden, Paper Daisy, Plant of the Week, Yellow Flowers | 1 Comment
10 small native plants for Australian cottage gardens
by Rae | November 22, 2021 | Garden design, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Purple Flowers, Top Stories, White Flowers, Yellow Flowers | 13 Comments
My top 10 small Australian native plants for flower filled meadow gardens, cottage gardens, courtyards, balconies and small garden spaces.







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