March 2014 – Mallee Design

Portfolio: Heathcote Garden Design

Some gardens are more like Bush Regeneration projects, and this is one of them! This is in Heathcote and it is truly a Sydney Sandstone cliff face garden, it is made up almost entirely of rock shelves, with large… Read more ›

29/03/2014 2 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Drought hardy, Naturalistic garden, Portfolio

Indigenous to Sutherland, Sydney Sandstone, understory planting

Butterfly attracting Pimelea ‘White Jewel’

This is a low growing form of Pimelea linifolia called ‘White Jewel’, it has proven itself to me to be very hardy and versatile. One of the main reasons I like using this plant is its shape, it grows into… Read more ›

24/03/2014

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Coastal, Shade tolerant, Small garden

low mounding shrub, Pimelea linifolia 'White Jewel', understory planting, white flower

Striking small inner city front garden

Oh so refreshing to see a small terrace garden used to maximum effect! Imagine if this was more common? how wonderful it would be to walk down an inner city street and see native birds running amok, as they were… Read more ›

19/03/2014

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Groundcover, Small tree

Banksia blechnifolia, Eucalyptus ficifolia grafted, small garden, Themeda 'Mingo', Thryptomene FC Payne, Xanthorrhoea

Low Shrubbery: Acacia howittii ‘Honey Bun’

I have had my eye on this little dwarf form of Acacia for a few years now, it isn’t as common as some of the Acacia cognata dwarfs, which is one of the reasons it appeals to me. This is Acacia… Read more ›

13/03/2014 10 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Frost tolerant, Hedge, Shade tolerant, Small garden

Acacia howittii 'Honey Bun', clay soils, fragrant, spring flowering, understory planting, weeping habit, yellow flowers

Silver and Grey in the Garden

This photo was taken in Melbourne Botanic Gardens where they had a display garden made up of only silver or grey foliaged plants, it was pretty interesting to see them all planted together and pick out which ones were natives.… Read more ›

09/03/2014

Kath Gadd

Coastal, Drought hardy, Feature shrub

Acacia baileyana prostrate, Eremophila glabra prostrate, Eucalyptus caesia 'Silver Princess', foliage contrast, grey green leaves, Lomandra 'Seascape', Maireana oppositifolia 'Smokey', silver foliage, understory planting

Wattle Glen: Sam Cox Landscape

When I realised I would be in Victoria at the beginning of the year one of the first things I did was contact some of my favourite Landscape and Garden Designers to see if they had any open gardens that… Read more ›

05/03/2014

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Landscape Design, Naturalistic garden, Shade tolerant, Water plants

Lovely shrub of many names: Veronica perfoliata

This is to my knowledge currently Veronica perfoliata, it has gone through several differing identities and name changes, I won’t go into all of that, it just seems a shame as I think it may have detracted people from knowing about… Read more ›

02/03/2014

Kath Gadd

Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Groundcover, Natives for containers, Naturalistic garden, Shade tolerant

foliage contrast, grey green leaves, summer flowering, understory planting, Veronica perfoliata, well drained soil

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Portfolio: Heathcote Garden Design

Butterfly attracting Pimelea ‘White Jewel’

Striking small inner city front garden

Low Shrubbery: Acacia howittii ‘Honey Bun’

Silver and Grey in the Garden

Wattle Glen: Sam Cox Landscape

Lovely shrub of many names: Veronica perfoliata