The inspiration behind a flower grower's garden | Australian native plants | Gardening Australia

Описание: Millie revisits Australian flower grower Marilyn Sprague, to look at some of the indigenous plant species in her garden. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe
Marilyn's 4.5-hectare garden is surrounded on three sides by national park, containing the iconic Box Ironbark Forest. With more shale rock than soil, fertility is low and with only 500mm rainfall. It’s called upside-down country by the local Dja Dja Wurrung people after being turned over endlessly in the gold rush.

Over 43 years Marilyn has applied her deep love and knowledge of native plants to build up an amazing showcase, a native flower “farm garden”, producing wildflower bouquets for Melbourne and Bendigo. While she grows species from all over Australia, it is the local species that she finds most inspiring, and they feature in her own home garden.

Adapted perfectly to the incredibly tough conditions, Marilyn reckons so many of these species are underrated as garden plants. She plants the local form of the golden wattle throughout the garden, offering light shade and shelter to the species below. In many cases, beds are raised to offer perfect drainage.

Marilyn has worked with others to conserve many rare and endangered forms, by collecting seed and cuttings under license and bringing them into cultivation. A double form of the Bendigo wax flower is particularly showy, as is a pink form of the rough mint bush.

Marilyn has also developed a burnt orange clustered everlasting, saving seed from one unique plant she discovered in the wild.

She encourages everyone to look at the local ecology and include some indigenous species in their garden, “they are bound to succeed!”

Featured Plants:
GOLDEN WATTLE  - Acacia pycnantha 
HEATH-MYRTLE  - Micromyrtus ciliata 
ROUGH MINT-BUSH  - Prostanthera denticulata 
SCARLET MINT-BUSH  - Prostanthera aspalathoides 
BENDIGO WAX-FLOWER  - Philotheca verrucosa  
CLUSTERED EVERLASTING  - Chrysocephalum semipapposum 
CREAMY CANDLES  - Stackhousia monogyna 
TWINING GLYCINE  - Glycine clandestina 

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