Natives that will actually thrive.

Fifty Australian natives worth planting, each rated city by city: thrives, with care, or not here. Six honest ratings a plant, a finder by city, job and look, and a dozen or so that grow in this garden. It is being finished now.

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What's inside.

Every plant gets the same treatment: a photograph, six honest ratings, and a city-by-city note on where it will live and where it won't.

Tall trees screening the pool enclosure, with the timber batten gate and stepping stones in the lawn

Six sections

Trees and small trees, large shrubs and screening plants, small and medium shrubs, groundcovers and low perennials, climbers, and a short Worth the risk section for the ones you plant with your eyes open.

Six ratings a plant

Sun, water once settled, kill-proof from 1 to 5, frost, humidity, and what it looks like five years on.

Where it lives

Every plant rated for seven places: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart, and Darwin. Thrives, with care (with the fix spelled out), or not here.

Also inside

The ten rules, finders by city, job and look, sizes and spacing, what to plant it with, how to buy it, a nursery list, a planting calendar and an index.

Good to know.

When will it be ready?
It is being finished now. Waitlist members hear first, the day it is ready.
What does it cost?
The price will be in AUD, with a rough US dollar guide. Waitlist members hear about launch-week pricing first.
Is it only for Brisbane?
No. It was written and researched in Brisbane, and every plant is rated for seven places across Australia, so a reader in Melbourne or Perth can see at a glance what will live and what won't.
How does it fit with The Style Guide?
The Style Guide is the house, with the garden's planting lists zone by zone, natives and exotics. The Native Fifty is the plant book: full pages for each native, including the dozen or so that grow in this garden. They are made to go together.
Natives only?
Yes. The exotics in this garden are named in The Style Guide's garden lists.