Border planting – Mallee Design

Portfolio: Haberfield Landscape Design

The brief for this front garden in Sydney’s inner west was to create a modern native garden which is sympathetic to the era of the house and show cases an Art Deco water feature passed down through the family. The… Read more ›

30/07/2021

Kath Gadd

AILDM, Bird attracting, Feature shrub, Formal gardens, Landscape Design, Ornamental grass, Portfolio, Shade tolerant, Small tree, Uncategorized, Water plants, Winter flowering

Acacia 'Limelight' grafted Standard, Banksia 'Coastal Cushions', Border planting, clay soils, Decomposed Crushed Granite, foliage contrast, Grevillea rhyolitica 'Cherry Cluster', Hakea francisiana Grafted, large flower, Lomandra 'Mist', low mounding shrub, Melaleuca 'Mini Quini', Porphyry stone, understory planting, water feature, weeping habit, Xanthorrhoea johnsonii

One for that difficult damp spot: Bauera rubioides

This is Dog Rose one of the few native plants with a likeable common name 😉 Bauera rubioides grows happily in those moist positions in sun or shade where other native plants rot or succumb to fungal diseases. It makes a… Read more ›

01/05/2018 1 Comment

Kath Gadd

Natives for containers, Shade tolerant, Winter flowering

Bauera rubioides, boggy soils, Border planting, moist shade, moist soil, purple flower, water logged soils, weed suppressant, year round flowering

Tetratheca thymifolia at its best

This is a happy little native shrub that exhausts itself come late winter-early spring by covering itself in delicate little purple or white flowers. The white form is not as hardy as the purple mind you, especially in periods of… Read more ›

10/09/2014

Kath Gadd

Feature shrub, Groundcover, Small garden, Winter flowering

Border planting, purple flowers, Tetratheca thymifolia

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

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One for that difficult damp spot: Bauera rubioides

Tetratheca thymifolia at its best

Lovely, Prickly…