Native Garden Design Ideas, Planting Plans and Photos

Native planting arranged with structure and intent — layered plans, bird and bee habitat, gravel paths and the pruning that keeps it looking designed. Native gardens earned an unfair reputation for looking untidy, and the cause was never the plants — it was the absence of a plan. Treated with the same discipline as any other style, native planting produces gardens that are tougher, cheaper to run, full of birds and unmistakably local. The trick is to bring structure to species that grow loosely, using repetition, clear edges and a strong layout to hold everything together. Design in layers, exactly as the bush does. A canopy layer of eucalypt, banksia or melaleuca for shade and habitat, a mid layer of grevillea, correa, westringia and hakea for screening and flower, a groundcover layer of myoporum, dianella, lomandra and native violet, and a grass layer for movement. Repeating each species in generous drifts rather than dotting singles is what makes the planting read as designed rather than accidental. Structure comes from everything that is not a plant. A crisp gravel or decomposed granite path with steel edging, a timber sleeper step, a bench positioned in dappled shade, a birdbath as a focal...

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