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The best native plants for flowers, colour and ground cover in winter

Winter doesn't have the same reputation for stunning, colourful plants as spring and summer do, but there are plenty of options you can add to your garden in the colder months. One of, if not the ...
Los Angeles Times

15 best native plants to grow in your yard if you also want fragrant bouquets

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...

10 Ways Native Plants Make Gardening So Much Easier and More Affordable

There's a lot of buzz (ha) around native plants these days, largely because research has shown that they're incredibly ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Growers branch out as demand grows for unique Australian native flowers

Nestled within the lush green bushland of the NSW Mid North Coast, Paul Dalley's flower farm is the last place a crop of Sturt's desert pea would be expected to thrive. The floral emblem of South ...
The Conversation

Only 10% of native plants can be bought as seed – a big problem for nature repair. Here’s how we can make plantings more diverse

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Joe Atkinson received funding from the Capital Landkeepers Trust and the Ecological Society of ...