A colourful Australian native garden on the Great Ocean Road 🌱 Behind the Garden Gate

Chloe goes behind the garden gate of a colourful Australian native garden transformed from a challenging block into a tranquil and family friendly seaside oasis. This Fairhaven gem thrives against the odds of a clay-based sloping block and exposure to salty winds.

We get up close and explore how using natives, clever water management, and thoughtful landscaping design transformed this garden on the Great Ocean Road into a resilient, low-maintenance and hardy garden.

 We also look at how a blend of salt-air-tolerant plants, an artisanal stone-wall pizza oven, and a charming flower-picking garden replaced the original high-maintenance lawn.



🐸 Explore the garden's heart, a thoughtfully restored stormwater pond crafted from local rocks with the timeless wedge and feather technique—an idyllic oasis for wildlife throughout the seasons.

🌼 We handpick the sturdiest Australian natives growing in this garden and examine garden design ideas, such as arranging plants in groupings to bring a pop of colour all year round. Chloe's top coastal garden plant pick? The Casuarina 'Cousin It'. It’s the best choice to soften the walled garden edges with its frothy foliage. We think it kind of looks like “green, melting marshmallows”!

📣 Leave a comment on this blog to let us know what plant caught your eye in this coastal garden tour/episode of Behind The Garden Gate.

FEATURED PLANTS:
Cotton Lavender (Santolina chamaecyparissus)
Casuarina 'Cousin It' (Casuarina glauca 'Cousin It')
Correa (Correa sp.)
Adenanthos (Adenanthos cuneatus 'Coral Carpet')
Kangaroo Paw 'Bush Zest' (Anigozanthos hybrid 'Rambozest' PBR)
Swamp Banksia (Banksia robur)
Sea Lavender / Statice (Limonium sinuatum)
Scrub Apple (Angophora hispida)
Banksia 'Golden Girl' (Banksia ericifolia 'Golden Girl')
Bursaria (Bursaria spinosa)
Water Milfoil (Myriophyllum crispatum)
Nardoo 'Rainbow' (Marsilea mutica)
Grevillea 'Goldfever' (Grevillea hybrid)

GARDEN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION: 🌱 Garden Design & Build by Ocean Road Landscaping - https://www.orl.com.au/

FILMED ON: Eastern Maar Country, Fairhaven in Victoria

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