Ben's Avant Gardens

22/05/2026

Verge garden nature strip featuring Swainsona galegifolia and Callistemon Pink Alma

20/05/2026

17/05/2026

Summer planting into sunny planters was a huge success, an explosion of colour! I love these bright purple scavolas! Also included the textural blue foliage of veronica perfoliata, deep blue salvias and rosemary, and Brachyscome multifida, the cheerful hawksbury daisy

17/05/2026

16/05/2026

Stunning Blanket flowers as the sun sets in Autumn

16/05/2026

09/12/2025

Celebrating the success of my Sarracenia's now that they have been moved to the humid microclimate around the pond, under a tree fern - but they still get a couple of hours of direct sun

09/12/2025

We opted to shorten our driveway so that we could create this private, lush rainforest garden that can be seen through the lounge room and bedroom windows. It is now almost 3 years old since the majority of the planting. Plants include native ginger, silver lady fern, 2 other tree ferns - dicksonia antarctica and cyathea cooperi, cabbage tree palm, davidson's plum and some rainbow fern (false bracken, soft bracken), among others. The area is drip irrigated from the rainwater tank, and I have recently added a pond with cloud minnows that quickly devour any mosquito larvae.

06/12/2025

Amorphophallus spp.