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Native Plant of the Week: Kangaroo Paw

by | July 22, 2024 | Garden design, Kangaroo Paw, Plant of the Week | 0 Comments

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,...
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Designing my cottage garden with Australian native plants

by | 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...
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My Garden: An Australian Native Cottage Garden Paradise

by | July 2, 2021 | Australian Native Gardens, Garden design, Native cottage garden | 1 Comment

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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Procreate Garden Design & Affinity for Garden Design

by | 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.

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Native Plant of the Week: Pelargoniums

by | January 1, 2022 | Australian Native Gardens, Native cottage garden, Pink Flowers, Plant of the Week, White Flowers | 4 Comments

Australian Pelargonium for Cottage Gardens, Meadows & Hanging Baskets Australian native Pelargonium are pretty soft low growing plants ideal for flowering borders. They look stunning in my garden from December. Every variety is blooming prolifically, filling the...
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Native Plant of the Week : Lemon Myrtle

by | 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...
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Plant of the Week – Yellow Kangaroo Paw ‘Landscape Gold’

by | December 16, 2021 | Kangaroo Paw, Plant of the Week, Yellow Flowers | 0 Comments

Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Gold’ is a spectacular yellow Kangaroo Paw and a 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 yellow Kangaroo Paw...
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Dargan Hill Monarch – A Perennial Paper Daisy

by | 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...
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Sunshine Coast Wallum and Coastal Heathland

by | August 30, 2023 | Pink Flowers, Purple Flowers, Wallum, White Flowers, Yellow Flowers | 0 Comments

In August 2023 I joined a retreat with Dr Sue Davis to explore the Sunshine COast Wallum and learn more about the plants of the Sunshine Coast wallum and coastal heathland environments. Over the course of 4 days we visited 4 Sunshine Coast Wallum sites and spent time...
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Pollinator Week 2025: A Heartfelt Wrap-Up

by | November 26, 2025 | Australian Native Gardens, Top Stories | 0 Comments

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...
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