The Rebel Gardener

Alyogyne Huegelii, aka the Native Hibiscus, is a shrub that you see from time to time in nurseries but rarely see in home gardens. I’ve often found this quite surprising though as it’s has so many great things going for it.
It grows naturally in sandy and gravelly soils in arid areas of Western Australia. This [...]

Yesterday a reader left a comment about Grevillea Rosmarinifolia on my article, Grevillea, How to grow.
“I want to plant a fence line with the Grevillea Rosmarinifolia as I believe they are hardy and also have spiky leaves which will provide a barrier from unwanted people climbing the fence. I will require about 100 plants and [...]

This is a fantastic Grevillea that I grew once before in my last garden. It’s normally sold as Grevillea Deua Flame or just Deua Grevillea. The reason that I like it so much is that it grows fairly quickly and always seems to be covered in flowers.
The other great thing about this Grevillea is that [...]

Grevilleas – some of the myths exposed.
Grevilleas are a plant that have been used it gardens and landscaping for many years and despite this it still amazes me as to how many misconceptions there are about growing them, especially in the home garden.
They are a genus of plants that grow mostly on the continent of [...]

Eremophila, a very under rated Garden Plant
I never really appreciated what a great little garden plant the Eremophila was until I accidentally contaminated my garden soil with Phosphorus and killed most of my Banksias, Grevilleas and Proteas.
The summer of 2006/7 was quite dry and to make matters worse we had water restrictions in Melbourne and [...]

Over the last ten years the types of plants that I’ve been interested in has broadened and developed. The part of the world where I live has now been in drought for about the last 12 years. Now when I use the word drought I use it in reference to the fact the our [...]

Phosphorus Toxicity in Proteaceae Garden Plants
This is the story about a mistake I made in my new garden that for me at the time, was about as devastating as it could get. The remarkable thing about it though was as time went on I was nearly glad that I’d made that mistake.
When we shifted into [...]