Do you grown any native plants in your garden?

I have 2 Bottlebrush trees. They are very hardy and don't require much water. I plan on getting some more native plants for my front garden.

by thriftyfrugalfun

We have a tiny Illawarra Flame Tree seedling, which should be magnificent once it's fully grown. I don't think anything else we have at the moment is native though. I'd kind of like to grow some bush tucker plants if I can, and maybe a lilly pilly, more for the flowers than for eating the berries.

by Jennifer Muirhead

I don't.
Never have, I do not know the reason 'why' I don't, but it is more than likely bad gardening on my part.
I may have a real nice garden....but you have me thinking now?
''why don't I have one or two native plants''.

by jonaja

Unfortunately I don't because our garden is way to small. However, it is on our list of things to do when we purchase a house of our own! ;)

by chipp

I used to be a native garden nut. I think I have mellowed with age as I find other species far easier to grow and make a better show of flowers and foliage.

by grann

Yes a lot of my garden is native, including a bottle brush tree, macadamia but tree and gum. We do have a lot of birds including rainbow lorikeets which is a hoot.

by Sarah Bell

Yep. Love 'em! 99% or our garden is either a) native or b) food-producing. At an educated guess, (I say that means we have about 30 native Australian plants, including macadamia nuts).

by kimp

A bonus in this case is that the birds and other critters (eg frogs) that are attracted to our garden by the natives and little swampy-ponds around the place eat the pests that others eat our food-produce. We live near significant wetlands, yet we hardly ever get mosquitoes, and strangely enough we've never had snakes either...(but just about every other non-poisonous reptile)

When we moved from our large property in the country to a small unit just outside Toowoomba, we had no garden at all. I had to have at least one tree and so I planted a grevellea.

by Tracie Louise

90% of trees in our garden are native. They attract the wildlife, from frilly-lizards to lorikeets!

by donjo

We have bottlebrush and grevellia and kangaroo paw but the bottlebrush is such a nuisance both with the leaves blowing all over the concrete and patgs and collecting in the drains. Even worse when the cockatoos and galahs visit and break the flowers off. Looks like a high wind has gone through the garden🍁

by helga