If you wanted to create a garden of nothing but Australian plants, you would have a cornucopia of beauties from which to choose. You could find ground covers, shrubs, and trees that flower ...

The continent of Australia is teeming with diverse life, both in flora and fauna. It boasts some of the most unique and spectacular plant species, important to the native ecology. Australian plants ...

But for David, Australia’s almost 100 species of native mistletoe are worth celebrating all year round. “We’ve got representations of lineages [of mistletoe] that date right back to Gondwana days. So, ...

Lilac hibiscus (Alyogyne huegelii "Santa Cruz"). This evergreen shrub grows to 6 to 10 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide. The flowers are singly in leaf axils and hold large light blue petals. The ...

Two centuries after orchids were first documented in South Australia, photographers are still discovering new plants.

As home gardeners become more educated about the benefits of native plants (supporting native insects, birds and wildlife, and the environment as a whole), the focus has mainly been on trees, shrubs ...

A newly described species of bloodroot has been named after the Australian rotary clothesline invention. The "Hills hoist clothesline" bloodroot is one of three newly identified species from New South ...

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 ...

Say the word “annuals” and most gardeners think of subtropical plants like petunias or marigolds. But native annuals do so much more for your garden. By Margaret Roach There it was, as flashy as in ...

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 ...

This column includes another visit to one of the world’s five Mediterranean climate regions, described more narrowly as southern and southwestern Australia, central Chile, coastal California, the ...