moist shade – Mallee Design

The glossy leafed Eupomatia laurina

This ancient flowering plant has a fossil record of 120 million years, it’s primitive flowers are a legacy from Gondwana. Isn’t that mind blowing!? The perfumed, glossy screen tree with edible fruits is the perfect addition to a bush food… Read more ›

09/12/2023

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Bush tucker, Feature shrub, Hedge, Illawarra natives, Natives for containers, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Small tree, Tropical garden

bee attracting, bird-attracting, Bush Foods, clay soils, dense habit, edible fruit, Edible native plant, Illawarra natives, large leaves, moist shade, natives for pots, Scented, understory planting, white flower, wollongong local species

Lucious, Shade-loving: Trochocarpa laurina

Note: The photos on this post were originally misidentified as Decaspermum humile. Thanks to @nightjarnatives who corrected the id on instagram! Trochocarpa laurina or ‘Tree Heath’ is a large shrub to small tree which loves the shade. I have recently… Read more ›

06/06/2023

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Bush tucker, Butterfly attracting, Hedge, Illawarra natives, Medium Tree, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Small tree, Tropical garden

bird-attracting, dense habit, heavy shade, moist shade, rainforest species, Reddish foliage, shade tolerant, subtropical species, Trochocarpa laurina, understory planting, weeping habit

Bold Blue Tongue: Melastoma affine

The colour of this flower is contentious, is it purple or deep pink? it also looks different in the flesh as opposed to on screen and it comes in a white form. This is Melastoma affine, a medium shrub found… Read more ›

12/09/2022

Kath Gadd

Bush tucker, Shade tolerant, Small garden

bee attracting, Bush Foods, clay soils, edible fruit, large flower, moist shade, moist soil, purple flower, spring flowering, subtropical species, tropical species, understory planting, well drained soil

Finger Limes loving the shade – Citrus australasica

My friend has the magic touch when it comes to growing all things edible and so of course her fingers limes are abundant in the Autumn ?. She has two varieties one is Citrus australasica ‘Rainforest Pearl’, a grafted form.… Read more ›

20/04/2021

Kath Gadd

Bush tucker, Hedge, Natives for containers, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Small tree

bee attracting, Bush Foods, Citrus australasica, Citrus australasica 'Rainforest Pearl', dense habit, edible fruit, fence screening, moist shade, part shade, shade tolerant, white flower

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

I need to remember this fern: Blechnum cartilagineum

I am not very good with my native ground cover ferns, I have a handful which I use over and over again which I know to be hardy and pretty. I was walking in the Blue Mountains this weekend and… Read more ›

03/11/2019

Kath Gadd

Naturalistic garden, Shade tolerant, Small garden, Tropical garden

Blechnum cartilagineum, clay soils, dry shade, foliage contrast, heavy shade, moist shade, Reddish foliage, understory planting

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

Portfolio: Connells Point Consults

I had the pleasure today of revisiting some regular clients in Connells Point for some follow up advice. I first began helping with this garden in 2013 and then planted and weeded some areas that were more difficult to get… Read more ›

31/03/2015 3 Comments

Kath Gadd

Naturalistic garden, Portfolio, Screening plants, Shade tolerant

Alocasia brisbanensis, Aphanopetalum resinosum, Banksia 'Mini Marg', foliage contrast, Hibiscus tiliaceus rubra, Hymenosporum flavum, moist shade, rainforest, rainforest species, understory planting, water logged soils

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

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

Native ginger: Alpinia caerulea ‘Red Back’

This is native ginger, Alpinia caerulea ‘Red Back’, planted in an internal courtyard, doesn’t it look beautiful? It had been recently cleaned out and cut back as it was a bit too happy. It has naturally arching canes that form… Read more ›

13/02/2013

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Bush tucker, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Tropical garden

Alpinia 'Red Back', alpinia caerulea, bee attracting, bird-attracting, clay soils, fast growing, large leaves, lizards, moist shade, rainforest species, shade tolerant, summer flowering, understory planting

Forked Fern

This ferns is rather unlike other ferns. It grows branches stemming out from the centre in a hexagonal shape, it appears as though the the branchlets will keep dividing indefinitely.

10/01/2013 1 Comment

fantastic

Groundcover, Shade tolerant

Coral Fern, fern, Gleichenia dicarpa, moist shade, moist soil, rainforest species, shade tolerant, understory planting

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The glossy leafed Eupomatia laurina

Lucious, Shade-loving: Trochocarpa laurina

Bold Blue Tongue: Melastoma affine

Finger Limes loving the shade – Citrus australasica

The very versatile Lomatia myricoides

I need to remember this fern: Blechnum cartilagineum

One for that difficult damp spot: Bauera rubioides

Portfolio: Connells Point Consults

4 Reliable Shadies

Portfolio: Hunter’s Hill Garden Design

Native ginger: Alpinia caerulea ‘Red Back’

Forked Fern