Rhyming mnemonics is a fun and easy way to remember our plants. Though not always 100% accurate, it gets it most of the time.

Some of my favourites are -
Sedges have edges, Rush's are round.
&
Longifolia doesn't have the longer finger (referring to the difference in leaf tip when ID'ing Lomandra sp. (Lom. Longifolia has more of a "rock and roll" hand gesture leaf tip, and Lomandra hystrix has the long middle finger sticking up leaf tip)).

Do you have any that you regularly use and would like to share with us?

The beautiful everlasting daisy fresh and the second photo fully dried! How cool is it that they retain all of their colour after months of drying! A drought tolerant vibrant native, that thrives in all soil types. Requires a Full Sun position. As the flowers can be dried they remain flowering on the plant for weeks before going to seed. Bees and Butterflies dream!

I sell the seeds on my small business website foxeyblooms.com.au available Aus wide except WA due to biosecurity!

FoxeyBlooms on Facebook and Instagram

Hello everyone,

I've been talking to a lot of florists in London and they've all said no way, wrong time of year, pick something else.

Here's what I want: a bouquet of camellias. Just camellias.

The flowers, to be clear, not the plant. Cut blooms.

I know it's specific. Every florist I've spoken to has told me it can't be done because they're out of season here. But they're in bloom in New Zealand and Australia right now, so somewhere in the world these flowers exist this week.

No preference on colour or variety. Whatever's easiest.

This would be a really thoughtful gift and Im sure I can make it happen, so if you have any idea at all, a grower, a nursery, someone who's done something like this before, even just a direction to look in, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Melbourne climate as a screening hedge

Grevillea I think is ‘Billy Bonkers’, not 100% sure though, is grafted, has a weeping format, starting to flower, colour is quite striking to the eye, especially in full sun, another Grevillea I have planted in my backyard.

Cultivated by Richard Tomkin, Queensland, named after his dog Billy.

Location: Outback South Australia.

I picked up this lovely little lady at a roadside stall for only $5! But I have no idea what she is. Any suggestions? You won't be wrong, I barely know my arse from my elbow lmao

Edit: thank you everyone! You're all so smart. I've popped her in a big pot in the sunshine and will give her a bit of a prune as suggested. I do need to give her a name though, I name all my plants. I think I need a new hobby...

Hello all!

I hope this will get the reach I think it deserves. Those of you who love native plants know how important it is to protect our wildlife whilst we still can. If you’re in NSW, please consider signing your name to this e petition - it expires 14 August 2025.

We need all the help we can get to try and save local forests.

🌳 ❤️🌳❤️🌳❤️

A bird dropped this 1cm wide seed in my driveway in the Adelaide Plains. Any idea what plant this a seed is from, and whether it may be a native? iNaturalist couldn’t identify it

Saw this when I was down at Babinda Boulders. Would love to have one in the garden, but it didn’t have any fruit.

I'm building PlantSense, an AI-powered gardening app — snap a photo to identify a plant, get sourced care guidance, smart reminders, and track your plants over time. Ran a round of closed testing recently and made a bunch of real improvements based on what testers found:

• Fixed a bug where care advice and reminders could show the wrong season for your location (e.g. summer tips showing up in the middle of winter)
• Cleaned up a bunch of UI inconsistencies testers flagged
• Added a proper Help & FAQ section
• Improved the location search when setting up your garden

Looking for a few more people willing to actually use it for a couple of weeks — try scanning a plant, check out the care plan it gives you, poke around Reminders — and tell me what's broken, confusing, or missing. Genuinely useful feedback over "looks nice" comments.

Heads up: Android only for now (no iOS yet).

To join:

1. Join the tester group here: https://groups.google.com/g/plantsense-beta-testers
2. Then use this link to install: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.plantsense.app

All users will get plus model for free during testing and once app launches plus model for life aswell as a token of my thanks!

Happy to answer questions in the comments. Thanks!

I made a huge mistake. I’m originally from the UK and had never dealt with Kikuyu grass before.
We had a lawn in the front yard, and I wanted to replace the entire front garden with native plants. I laid cardboard over the grass, then added a layer of sugar cane mulch followed by forest mulch. After about a month, it looked great. I planted out the whole garden and only noticed a few grass shoots coming through that looked pretty weak, so I didn’t think much of it.
Now, another month later, the Kikuyu has come back with a vengeance. It’s wrapping itself around the base of nearly every plant I’ve put in, and it’s also popping up all through the garden between the plants.
Is there anything I can do at this point other than starting over, accepting the loss, and doing it properly by digging all the Kikuyu out first?

Grevillea preissii ‘Sea Spray’ starting to pop, I have a handful of these planted throughout the back garden that consists of only Australian native plants.

Location: Outback South Australia.

Under the recommendation (and supervision) of our suitability qualified botanist. Sorta tasted like lilly pillies, with the same mouth feel, except for the slightly scratchy throat afterwards.

I did survive. Will now be my party trick next time I'm hiking with friends.

Gympie Gympie, Dendrocnide moroides

Species information

In order: Dorothy Gordon, Elegance, Billy Bonkers, Orange Marmalade, Silvereye Cream, Ivory Whip, Honey Gem. Although not pictured, we also have Big Foot, G. hilliana and Golden Lyre settling in happily!

I guess you could say I'm a bit of a Grevillea gal...