Welcome to Indigenous Gardens
Our gardens make the most of indigenous and native plants so you don’t need to water every day. You won’t spend weekends on routine garden maintenance and you won’t have to worry about owning a lawn-mower either.
- Indigenous gardening brings nature into our lives.
- Indigenous gardens are beautiful and interesting.
- Indigenous gardens strengthen local nature.
- Indigenous gardens celebrate nature.
An indigenous garden is composed of plants that are indigenous to the garden area.
Indigenous gardens around the world are known by various names such as natural gardens, wildflower gardens, bush gardens and ecological gardens. All indigenous gardens are based on the local natural flora.
All gardens are created vegetation with structural elements such as trees, lawns, shrubberies and flower beds, an indigenous garden has the same managed forms so is not natural vegetation. The difference with conventional gardening is that the natural flora is used, which in turn provides habitat for natural fauna.
Just as the natural flora and vegetation undergo constant change, an indigenous garden displays rapid change with climatic events and can even accommodate climate change by assisting the migration of species.
An indigenous garden involves many gardening techniques, many of which, such as burning for weed control or regeneration, cannot be found in conventional gardening guides. An indigenous garden can be created almost anywhere, either from scratch or by modifying existing natural vegetation.
Indigenous gardens can be stable, with the plants set apart as ornamental specimens or as landscaping. Many indigenous plants show superb growth when free from competition in such situations. Some indigenous gardens are dynamic, where plant recruitment as seedlings or vegetative spread makes the garden come even more alive. Seedlings are an integral part of the garden and add interest to every square metre.
An indigenous garden can be looked at extremely closely when seedlings, lichens, mosses and insects are included. There is studied informality and amazing detail in an established indigenous garden.With the vast variety of colourful and attractive plants available, why would a person choose to devote a large proportion of their garden to growing plants from their local area? For many of us, it is because we want to attract wildlife to our garden.
Most Australian plants are valuable for helping wildlife but it is reasonable to suppose that the plants that have co-evolved with the local fauna will be best at attracting the widest range of animals. We service all of the Mornington Peninsula, and can meet with you to discuss your options and work out a wonderful plan for your garden and environment.
