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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...

Christmas Gifts for Gardeners – Australian Edition

by Rae | November 27, 2023 | Christmas Gifts for Gardeners | 1 Comment

It’s time again for my annual Christmas themed post! This year I’m bringing you more Christmas inspiration, kicking off with this Christmas gift ideas for Gardeners. As usual this gift guide is Australian themed - with a focus on Australian botanical designs and...

Paper daisies for Australian native gardens

by Rae | December 8, 2021 | Native cottage garden, Paper Daisy, Pink Flowers, Yellow Flowers | 2 Comments

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...

Boronia: A Beginner’s Guide – Plant of the Week

by Rae | October 7, 2024 | Pink Flowers, Plant of the Week | 0 Comments

Australian Native Boronia A Beginner's Guide Let me start by saying I am most certainly not a Boronia expert. I have killed many of these beautiful Australian native plants, therefore this is very much a guide for beginners and I hope it will help you to choose the...

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

“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...

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.

Native Plant of the Week : Lemon Myrtle

by Rae | February 5, 2022 | Plant of the Week, White Flowers | 0 Comments

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

by Rae | September 29, 2024 | Native cottage garden, Paper Daisy, Plant of the Week, Yellow Flowers | 1 Comment

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...

Art & Accessories for an Australian Native Christmas

by Rae | November 9, 2022 | Christmas Gifts for Gardeners | 0 Comments

Ideas for an Australian Native Christmas Plus Christmas Gifts for Gardeners! Here is my pick of Australian native Christmas decorations and accessories. Our native flora deserves to be celebrated, and there is truly no better expression of that than an artist using...

Designing my cottage garden with Australian native plants

by Rae | July 9, 2021 | Australian Native Gardens, Garden design, Native cottage garden, Paper Daisy, Pink Flowers, Purple Flowers, White Flowers | 1 Comment

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...

Artist Residency at Mary Cairncross Reserve April 2025

by Rae | March 12, 2025 | Rainforest | 1 Comment

Artist in Residence at Mary Cairncross Reserve I'm excited to share that I will be joining the Sunshine Coast Nature Sketchers as Artists in Residence at the Mary Cairncross Reserve in Maleny from 5 to 17 April 2025. I will be there every day of the residency to...

Australian Native Ground Orchid Photos in Australian Gardens

Flowering Native Plants for Shade

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