The cottage garden aesthetic — overflowing abundance, soft colour, and relaxed informality — is perfectly achievable in Australian conditions with the right plant selection and…
The cottage garden look — billowing, romantic, and seemingly effortless — is actually the result of careful plant selection. Learn the plant palette and layering method.
Design, plant, and maintain a spectacular rose garden suited to Australian conditions — from climate selection to pruning and disease management.
Catmint (Nepeta x faassenii and related species) produces soft clouds of lavender-blue flowers from late spring through autumn, is extraordinarily drought-tolerant once established…
The salvia genus contains dozens of species perfectly adapted to Australian conditions — drought-tolerant, long-flowering, irresistible to bees, and available in every colour fro…
Poppies provide some of the most vivid and ephemeral colour of the Australian spring — grown from direct seeding in autumn, they reward the patient gardener with masses of silky …
Medium-sized flowering shrubs provide the backbone of the Australian ornamental garden — providing structure, seasonal interest, and reliable colour with minimal care requirement…
Herb and flower-infused vinegars are among the simplest and most useful preserved products from the garden — extraordinary in salad dressings, marinades, and as gifts.
Aquilegia (columbine) produces uniquely shaped, spurred flowers in an extraordinary range of colours and bicolours — one of the most distinctive spring-flowering perennials for c…
Penstemons (beardtongues) produce elegant tubular flowers in white, pink, red, purple, and blue on upright stems from late spring through autumn — one of the most underused but r…
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