June 2014 – Mallee Design

4 Reliable Shadies

I have been visiting many shady gardens lately, where there hasn’t really been much scope for planting anything besides ferns and their relatives. This has made me stop and think about tough, reliable shade plants, natives for ground cover, lower… Read more ›

30/06/2014

Kath Gadd

Groundcover, Shade tolerant, Tropical garden

Cyathea cooperi, Doodia aspera, dry shade, Lepidozamia peroffskyana, moist shade, Pteris umbrosa, understory planting

Bush Food Spheres: Citriobatus pauciflorus

I was quite taken when I saw these well clipped Orange Thorn a few weeks back in the edible section at Mount Anan Botanic Gardens, this section of the garden is kept quite manicured, bringing out the ornamental potential of… Read more ›

25/06/2014

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Bush tucker, Butterfly attracting, Formal gardens, Illawarra natives, Screening plants, Shade tolerant

Bush Foods, Citriobatus multiflorus, Citriobatus pauciflorus, edible fruit, Orange Thorn, Pittosporum multiflorum, Prickly, pruning, small bird attracting, understory planting, wildlife habitat

Lovely, Prickly…

There are many lovely pricklies, lovely because they are prickly and just lovelies that happen to be prickly, Acacia amblygona is both. This is a low growing sprawling wattle, that appears thick and luscious from a distance but then when… Read more ›

18/06/2014 1 Comment

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Groundcover, Shade tolerant, Winter flowering

Acacia amblygona, Border planting, Prickly, understory planting, yellow flowers

One of my favourite Mallees…Eucalyptus luehmanniana

This is Eucalyptus leuhmanniana or Yellow Topped Ash, it is a rare species to the east coast of NSW and grows in high rainfall areas on sandstone soils, it comes in a glaucous and non-glaucus form, the glaucous form is… Read more ›

15/06/2014 5 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Small garden, Small tree

Eucalyptus luehmanniana, feature tree, foliage contrast, grey green leaves, Sydney Sandstone, weeping habit

Portfolio: Glebe Re-visited

I went back to this front Terrace garden in Glebe a couple of weeks ago to do some follow up work; re-mulching and pruning and I was struck again by how quickly the garden is filling out, it is still… Read more ›

12/06/2014 1 Comment

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Drought hardy, Naturalistic garden, Portfolio, Shade tolerant, Small garden

Actinotus helianthi, Banksia serrata, Eriostemon difformis ‘Star Sprite’, Hardenbergia violacea, part shade, Philotheca difformis, Pimelea linifolia 'White Jewel', Prostanthera 'Minty', purple flowers, white flower

Portfolio: Hunter’s Hill Garden Design

Thankyou so much Kath for designing our native Garden, we love it……Not sure if you realise how lightly you step on this earth, lovely to observe. This garden in Hunter’s Hill backs onto a strip of bushland that runs right… Read more ›

02/06/2014 1 Comment

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Naturalistic garden, Portfolio, Shade tolerant

bush style garden, Conostylis candicans, Grevillea sericea, moist shade, Persoonia pinifolia, understory planting

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4 Reliable Shadies

Bush Food Spheres: Citriobatus pauciflorus

Lovely, Prickly…

One of my favourite Mallees…Eucalyptus luehmanniana

Portfolio: Glebe Re-visited

Portfolio: Hunter’s Hill Garden Design