Native Plant Gardens: Designing with Australian Flora

The Case for Native PlantingAustralian native plant gardens offer unique advantages: they evolved alongside our native fauna and provide food, shelter, and nesting sites for birds, insects, and other wildlife that exotic plants simply cannot match. Once established, they are generally more drought-tolerant than exotic equivalents. And they create a distinctive sense of place — a garden that could only exist in Australia.Design PrinciplesNative plant gardens work best when they mimic natural pl…