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Native Plant of the Week: Pelargoniums

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Artist Residency at Mary Cairncross Reserve April 2025

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...

Crowea – Native Plant of the Week

The pink starry flowers of Crowea provide 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 are...

My Garden: An Australian Native Cottage Garden Paradise

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...

Plant an ‘English’ style cottage garden with natives

“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...

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...