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Happy Wattle Day: The Ever useful Acacia fimbriata

The 1st of September is not only the first day of Spring, but it is also National Wattle Day! So if you have any flowering in your garden, cut off a sprig for a jar or pin it to your… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Screening plants, Small garden, Small tree, Winter flowering
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Habitat Gardening

My eye is repeatedly drawn to this delightful photo of a father Tawny Frogmouth and his hatchling. Tawny Frogmouth fathers look after their baby birds until they fledge and require wide branches or large forks in old trees to nest.… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Landscape Design
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Something a little different: Stenanthemum scortechinii

This little low growing native shrub has many common names Cotton Bush, Snow Balls, Corroboree, salt and pepper to name a few …. it is also known as Stenanthemum scortechinii or Cryptandra scortechinii or even Spyridium whatever the name it… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Winter flowering
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The Partying Pea: Chorizema cordatum

This outrageous little pea flower is growing in my daughters primary school, it thinks it is unassuming and doing its own thing, little does it realise what a show off it is! Chorizema cordatum is a wonderful South West Australian… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Butterfly attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Naturalistic garden, Shade tolerant, Small garden, Winter flowering
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An oldie but a goodie: Thryptomene saxicola ‘FC Payne’

This is a classic 70’s native garden plant, a WA species which doesn’t need to be grafted to grow elsewhere in Australia and for good reason it has stood the test of time. Thryptomene saxicola ‘FC Payne’ is hardy and… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Butterfly attracting, Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Shade tolerant, Winter flowering
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An under-utilised native tree: Glochidion ferdinandi

This is the ever adaptable Cheese tree Glochidion ferdinandi, I would love to see these used more widely in our streetscape as street trees but also as shade trees in gardens or parks. They have the same glossy luscious look… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Illawarra natives, Medium Tree
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Shade loving Leionema ‘Green Screen’

This is still one of my favourite native shrubs for growing in dry shade or part sun,  Leionema ‘Green Screen’ is a hybrid of L. elatius and L. lamprophyllum, and is an extremely useful plant! In the image above you… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Butterfly attracting, Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Winter flowering
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Shade-loving Ornamental Grass: Libertia paniculata

This is the first time I have seen Libertia paniculata growing naturally in the bush, I was quite taken aback to see it flowering and spreading out naturally almost like it had been mass planted. It truly is super hardy,… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Butterfly attracting, Frost tolerant, Illawarra natives, Kids gardens, Ornamental grass, Shade tolerant
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