Month: March 2013

  • Portfolio: Camden Garden Design

    Portfolio: Camden Garden Design

    I designed this garden in September 2011 This was a brand new blank canvas of mud when I went to look at it almost two years ago. Since then the client has planted it at break neck speed.

  • The benefits of salt bush: Rhagodia spinescens

    The benefits of salt bush: Rhagodia spinescens

    There are several species of salt bush that I like to put in gardens, this one is one of my favourites  Rhagodia spinescens, it comes in varying shapes and forms, some a little more silver leaved some a little more compact. It is growing here as a pathway and garden edge and does a great job…

  • The double flowers of the Swamp Banksia: Banksia robur

    The double flowers of the Swamp Banksia: Banksia robur

    Whenever there is decent rain Banksia robur puts on a wonderful show of growing new leaves that emerge like the buds of red flowers, deep and furry. 

  • Low growing shrub: Correa ‘Dusky Bells’

    Low growing shrub: Correa ‘Dusky Bells’

    There are not too many low growing shrubs that look lush and green, yet grow in dry shade and flower their heads off regardless the weather, these are the reasons for loving Correas especially this one Correa ‘Dusky Bells’. 

  • Frogs, ponds and native water plants: Nymphoides crenata

    Frogs, ponds and native water plants: Nymphoides crenata

    So this is one of our little friends that likes to visit our pond. Pond is probably too grand a name for it really, it is just an old bath set into the ground where I can grow Australian native water plants, with varying degrees of success.

  • Soft Screening: Westringia ‘Snow Flurry’

    Soft Screening: Westringia ‘Snow Flurry’

    This is Westringia ‘Snow Flurry’ or pretty close to Westringia longifolia, it is the most useful plant to put in a garden. It will grow almost anywhere, including in a reasonable amount of shade!

  • Thats what I call an entrance!

    Thats what I call an entrance!

    I saw this amazing entranceway whilst driving around crook haven heads trying to get a small person to sleep, what a find! I was so surprised to find it in a holiday town, maybe it had been someones holiday project and they built it bit by bit to relax…it is part sculpture part wall.

  • Tree on fire: Stenocarpus sinuatus

    Tree on fire: Stenocarpus sinuatus

    The Firewheel trees are flowering their heads off this year, I’m not sure what it is, maybe the searing heat? maybe the deluge of rains, whatever, my tree has never had so many flowers on it and its not the only one.

  • Eremophilas as ground cover: Eremophila ‘Kalbarri Carpet’

    Eremophilas as ground cover: Eremophila ‘Kalbarri Carpet’

    I have been experimenting more and more with Eremophilas, starting off with the easy to grow ones like Eremophila maculata in its many forms, but this one here, that is super hardy even in humidity and clay soils, is by far my favourite.