Books and articles

There are some wonderful resources – books, journals and links, to help you on your native garden design journey. In addition, online resources might prove useful.

The two books produced by the Garden Design Study Group are particularly noteworthy and cover the topic in more detail:

Snape D (1992), Australian Native Gardens: Putting Visions into Practice. Lothian Publishing Company Pty Ltd, Melbourne.
Snape D (2002), The Australian Garden: Designing with Australian Plants. Blooming Books, Melbourne

Stories

Journals

Many issues of the Society’s journal “Australian Plants” are particularly useful for those interested in garden design. Particularly relevant is the continuing series of articles called “My Garden”. These describe (with text and photographs) native gardens developed by Society members – they provide lots of interesting ideas that can be implemented and adapted for other gardens.

The series commenced in the December 1988 issue.

Articles from past newsletters in PDF

Some of these have been updated and reproduced as stories.

Garden Design for Australian Plants in a Changing World; Diana Snape – from ANPSA’s 21st Biennial Seminar, 2001.
Rise of the Australian Plant Garden; Jo Hambrett – a short history of Australian garden design (talk to the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 28 July 2004).
The Importance of Australia’s Indigenous Plants; Diana Snape.
Fifteen Ideas for Garden Design; Diana Snape.
Garden Serenity; Chris Larkin.
Developing a Garden in Northern Tasmania; Sharon Percy.
The Garden of Joy; Joy Cook.
The Australian Landscape Conference 2009; Diana Snape.
Around the World in 80 Gardens; Jennifer Farrer – book and TV program review.
Garden Design Workshop Weekend; Batemans Bay; Jo Hambrett.
Database of Landscape Species; Lawrie Smith.
Despair and Desire – A Short Diary; Chris Larkin.
Rainforest Species for the Garden; Lawrie Smith.
Eremophilas; Diana Snape – review of the book ‘Australia’s Eremophilas: changing gardens for a changing climate’.
Oh, Our Designing Ways; Chris Larkin.
Design with Nature – Planting a Native Garden; Lawrie Smith.
Design…..and sticking to it!; Jo Hambrett.
Something Old , Something New; Maureen Webb.
Australian Succulent Plants in Cultivation; Attila Kapitany.
Where Eagles Drift; Upper Hunter Valley; Jenny and Ted Finnie.
Creating a Small Garden Pond; Jeff Howes.
A Marriage of Aesthetics and Ecology; Gordon Rowland – talk given at the ASGAP Biennial National Conference, Newcastle NSW October 2007.
Tree Management for Carbon, Energy and Drought Efficiency; Dr Greg M Moore – extracts from a paper from Treenet proceedings.
Mulch and Native Plants; Jeff Howes.
Design of the Keith Moore Habitat Garden, Huskisson, New South Wales; Keith Naylor.
Pruning Australian Plants; Diana Snape.
Concept Design for a Tapestry Garden; Jan Hall.
Use of Lomandras in Design; Colin Turner.
A Small Wildlife Garden; Leigh Murray.
Healing Gardens; Therese Scales.
Garden Design Using Australian Plants: Why Such a Late Start?; Diana Snape.
Designing a Garden for Views from Inside the House; Margaret James.
More on Gardening Ethics; Diana Snape.
More on the Formal/Informal Garden Question; Chris Larkin.
Suitable Trees for the Streetscape; Study Group members.
Lawns of Australian Grasses; Diana Snape.
More than Garden Etiquette; Chris Larkin.
“Yanderra” News; Jo Hambrett.
Musings of Mt. Penang; Suellen Harris.
Changed Landscapes; Chris Larkin.
An Interview with Professor Richard Clough; Jo Hambrett.
Reflections; Chris Larkin.
Small Delights; Diana Snape.
Change in the Garden – Good or Bad?; Diana Snape.
Growing Orchids in the Garden; John Moye.
More on the Lawn Debate; Chris Larkin.
Seasonal Changes at Yarrawonga – Gardening in Harmony with Nature; Jan Hall.
Criteria for a Descriptive Assessment of a Garden’s Design; Chris Larkin.

Past online resources

Back in the late 1990s, ANPSA produced an online resource about native plants and gardens. Here is a selection of such articles in PDF form. Some have been reproduced as stories.