Master Australia's most popular herb — from seed sowing timing to preventing bolting and making the most of your harvest.
The fig is one of the most beautiful and productive fruit trees for the Australian garden, requiring minimal care once established.
Discover beautiful, water-wise Australian succulents perfect for hot, exposed positions where other plants struggle.
Design and plant a stunning Mediterranean garden perfectly suited to Australian dry summers — lavender, rosemary, olives, gravel, and the art of relaxed elegance.
Transform your garden into one that thrives through Australia's increasingly variable rainfall — from soil preparation to plant selection and irrigation design.
The salvia genus contains dozens of species perfectly adapted to Australian conditions — drought-tolerant, long-flowering, irresistible to bees, and available in every colour fro…
The backbone of a low-maintenance Australian garden is a core collection of tough perennials that return reliably each year, require minimal water, and flower for months at a time.
Selecting plants that genuinely tolerate dry conditions — rather than merely surviving briefly — is the foundation of a water-efficient Australian garden.
A well-designed native garden thrives on neglect once established. Learn combining trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and grasses for year-round colour with near-zero maintenance.
Saltbush (Atriplex) is one of Australia's most drought-tolerant native plants and is gaining recognition as a culinary ingredient with remarkable nutritional density and a complex …
Strelitzia reginae is one of the world's most recognisable flowers — the orange and blue bird of paradise that has become a symbol of South African and Australian subtropical gar…
Penstemons (beardtongues) produce elegant tubular flowers in white, pink, red, purple, and blue on upright stems from late spring through autumn — one of the most underused but r…
Ornamental grasses bring movement, texture, and year-round interest to Australian gardens while requiring minimal water and almost no maintenance once established.
Bougainvillea produces the most spectacular colour display of any climbing plant in Australian conditions — but only with the right management to trigger prolific flowering.
Warrigal greens (Tetragonia tetragonioides) is a native Australian leafy green used by Joseph Banks as an antiscorbutic by Captain Cook's crew — and still one of the most useful …
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