By Daniel Fuller
During my educational webinar sessions with landscape architects and designers, I’ve noticed an increasing desire to use wildflowers, but plant performance has been an issue in the past. Many of Australia’s most spectacular flowering plants tend to put on vibrant displays for a short period and then quickly roll over at the first sign of heat, drought, flooding, or frost.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Clive Larkman
The world of plants is wide, weird and wonderful. I have been writing these articles for over sixteen years and they have mostly been on edible or medicinal plants, some of which have been a bit odd or at least one known to western gardens.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Daniel Fuller
Flowers are great, but they’re fleeting. A good landscape design includes plants with eye-catching foliage that will provide aesthetic value month after month, year after year.
Ozbreed has bred several new native cultivars with foliage full of interesting colours, shapes, and textures.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Daniel Fuller
Plant breeding has made significant strides over the past couple of decades. What once impressed landscape architects no longer suffices, as new cultivars are now more resilient, requiring less maintenance. While nursery businesses know what has sold well in the past, predicting future popular cultivars remains a challenge.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Greg Bourke
When the home gardener thinks about Australian natives, they often think of compact or screening banksias, grevilleas and bottlebrushes, or other low maintenance plants such as kangaroo paws, grass trees, or lomandra, and often bird-attracting plants. Typically, they’re after something they can stick in the ground and forget about.… Continue reading
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