If you go down to the woods today, you're a lucky person, because the woods are endangered and incredibly special!  Illawarra Lowland Gr...

I have been admiring local Saltbushes for years, and Growing Illawarra Natives covers five different species with that name, and there are s...

There's always something interesting in flower or fruit around Illawarra, and you don't have to go far to find them. I find I often ...

This is a short and sharp post about Illawarra's local Broom Heath ( Monotoca ) species, which are not much known in cultivation. They d...

This blog doesn't feature many 'try growing' segments any more because the Growing Illawarra Natives website provides all the in...

New foliage of Guioa ( Guioa semiglauca ). Image by Emma Rooksby. When people start talking about 'foliage plants' my brain goes int...

I can't believe I haven't done a post about native grasses before! There are so many local native grasses, over fifty species by my ...

Recently I've found myself talking with quite a few people who have vege gardens, and who really want to grow edible plants on the land ...