Enjoy the sounds of frogs and moving water in this productive cottage garden without a lawn. In Spring the garden will be abloom with fruit trees (apricot, fig, plum and crab apples) and also feature a wisteria-covered arbour, camellias and bulbs. The owner’s efforts to establish a sound basic structure of visual rooms and access paths, [...]

Els' garden is on a quarter acre, gently south-sloping block, and includes a variety of ornamental zones front and back including a substantial variety of native plants. Phyla nodiflora on the nature strip leads to Isopogons sheltering under a silver birch and a Chinese pistacio, near a mature Myoporum floribundum. Mauve Prostanthera, Olearia and Westringia contrast [...]

Established during Canberra’s most recent drought (2003-2008), this garden was transformed from an uninteresting and mostly bare yard, to a plant-filled colourful surprise. Sited on a gentle slope the garden is on several levels, filled with a mix of natives and exotics in the front and roses under-planted with cottage plants in the back. Flowering shrubs, [...]

This garden is one of 15 demonstration gardens chosen under the ACT Government’s H2OK Healthy Waterways Program Stage 1. Water capture is integrated into the sloping, terraced gardens which also feature many ornamental and vegetable garden beds, herbs, fruit trees, a poultry enclosure, an orchid shadehouse, a winter glasshouse, pleasant sitting areas and themed art works. [...]