February 2021 – Mallee Design

Growing Natives Indoors

I love indoor plants, which are known to improve our sense of wellbeing, the quality of the air inside, and give us a connection to nature. Most of us aren’t aware of the array of Australian natives that could be… Read more ›

25/02/2021 4 Comments

Kath Gadd

Feature shrub, Illawarra natives, Natives for containers, Shade tolerant

The very versatile Lomatia myricoides

I have been wanting to tell you all about the River Lomatia for some time but have been waiting to find some fully grown shrubs to photograph and I finally found them on my recent Summer trip to Mount Kosciuszko.… Read more ›

23/02/2021

Kath Gadd

Butterfly attracting, Frost tolerant, Hedge, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Snow Tolerant

bee attracting, cut flowers, large shrub, Lomatia myricoides, moist shade, moist soil, native bees, small bird attracting, summer flowering, understory planting, weeping habit, well drained soil, white flower

Bee Friendly Gardening

Bees play an important role in our ecosystem and we rely heavily on them to pollinate our food crops and our native bushland, not to mention supply us with delicious honey. There are over 1,500 native bee species in Australia… Read more ›

05/02/2021 1 Comment

Kath Gadd

Groundcover, Medium Tree, Screening plants, Small tree, Winter flowering

Angophora hispida, Autumn Flowering, Banksia oblongifolia, banksia spinulosa, Bauera rubioides, bee attracting, blue flower, blue-banded bees, Brachyscome sp., Bracteantha sp., carpenter bees, Conostylis candicans, Correa alba, Correa glabra, Dampiera spps, Eucalyptus leucoxylon, Eucalyptus paniculata, Gahnia sieberiana, Goodenia ovata, Guichenotia macrantha, Hakea laurina, Hardenbergia violacea, Hibbertia sp., Jasminum suavissimum, Lambertia formosa, Lomatia myricoides, Lomatia silaifolia, long flowering period, Melaleuca thymifolia, Micromyrtus ciliata, Myoporum parvifolium, native bees, Oleraria sp., Ozothamnus diosmifolius, Persoonia pinifolia, Phebalium squamulosum, Philotheca difformis 'Starsprite', Plectranthus sp., pollination, Prostanthera sp., purple flowers, Scaevola Mauve Clusters, Scaevola spps., Senna artemisoides, summer flowering, Tecomanthe hillii, Tetragonula, Viminaria juncea, Viola hederacea, white flower, winter flowering, year round flowering, yellow flowers

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Growing Natives Indoors

The very versatile Lomatia myricoides

Bee Friendly Gardening