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Landscape & Garden Designer — Sunshine Coast

Native + edible + sensory gardens with purpose
Design • Sourcing • Installation • Maintenance
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01/11/2026

This native fruit is edible… but only at the right moment. 🌿

Meet kangaroo apple (Solanum aviculare), a fast-growing native shrub I planted a few months ago. Right now it's covered in soft violet flowers.
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Why it's worth a spot in your garden:

🐝 Native bees buzz its flowers to shake the pollen loose, the same way they pollinate tomatoes
🐦 Birds eat the fruit and spread the seeds. Aviculare means "of the birds"
🌱 It grows quickly, making it a great pioneer plant for new gardens and revegetation
🍊 And the fruit is bush tucker
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⚠️ One important thing: only eat the fruit when it's fully ripe, soft and orange. Green fruit is toxic.
Ripe, it's sweet, a little like tamarillo. I'll share the taste test once these flowers turn to fruit, so stay tuned. 👀
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Follow along for more native plants and bush tucker. 🌱

📍 Sunshine Coast, QLD
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30/10/2026

The best fertiliser in my garden costs nothing. 🌿

It's called chop and drop: cutting fast-growing plants and leaving them right where they're needed, as mulch and food for the soil.
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Here I'm using comfrey, one of the best plants for the job:

🌱 Its deep roots reach into the subsoil, and its big leaves are rich in nutrients, especially potassium

✂️ Cut the leaves and lay them at the base of a fruit tree

🍂 In a few weeks they break down, feeding the soil life and returning those nutrients to the roots

💧 Meanwhile, they cover the ground, holding moisture and keeping the soil cool

🔁 Comfrey grows back fast, so you can cut it again and again through the season

It's a core practice in permaculture, and in syntropic agriculture too, where pruning and returning biomass to the soil is what keeps the whole system growing.
No bags, no trips to the store. Just a garden feeding itself.
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💾 Save this for your next prune.

Want a food forest or edible garden designed for your place?

Comment "GARDEN" below and I'll send you a message. 💬

📍 Sunshine Coast, QLD
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23/10/2026

Some people call this messy. 🌾

But a patch of grass left to grow and go to seed is one of the simplest habitats you can give back to the land.
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Seed heads feed finches and other small birds.
Dense tussocks shelter lizards, frogs and insects from heat and predators.

Many native grasses are food for butterfly caterpillars. 🦋
And what looks untidy to us is food, cover and home for everything else.
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A garden doesn't have to choose between beautiful and wild.

Leaving a little wild can be as simple as:

🌱 Letting some grasses flower and set seed before cutting them back
🍂 Leaving leaf litter in a corner of the garden
🪵 Cutting back in sections, not all at once, so there's always shelter

The tidiest gardens are often the quietest ones.
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Do you leave a wild corner in your garden? Tell me below 👇

And if you'd like a garden designed for wildlife as much as for you, comment "GARDEN" and I'll send you a message. 💬

📍 Sunshine Coast, QLD
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21/10/2026

5 Beds, 1 Garden 🌿
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When the owners moved in, nothing in this garden made sense for the site. Plants chosen to look good for a sale, with little thought for the sun, the slope or the local landscape. It never felt like theirs.

What they wanted was a garden full of natives and wildlife.
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A big thank you to the crew who helped bring it to life: Tom from Sustainable Gardens Sunshine Coast , Nathan from Blue Gardens , Finn from Barefoot Gardens | Sunshine Coast and Lauren Crabbe . 🙌
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Every plant was cleared by hand, with no chemicals. Only one was kept: an established grevillea that already belonged here.

From there, each bed was designed around its own light and conditions:

☀️ The sunniest bed: a low, layered native planting around a pink flowering gum, with grevilleas, banksia, kangaroo grass and native groundcovers flowering through the seasons for birds and bees. Corten steel edging and a row of lomandra hold the slope and stop erosion.

💧 By the pool: the old white pebbles, constantly stained by water, replaced with charcoal stone and native plants in pots.

🌿 The shade garden: a cool, layered planting of tree fern, native ginger and other shade lovers.

🍋 The bush tucker line: Davidson's plum, finger limes, lemon myrtle and midyim berries, food for the household and for the wildlife.

🍊 And an L-shaped fruit tree line to finish the garden.
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Five beds, each with its own role, working together as one garden.

A special shout out to Tom from Sustainable Gardens Sunshine Coast for his help designing the fruit tree line and with the logistics of the whole install. 🙏
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Want a garden that feels like yours?

Comment "GARDEN" below and I'll send you a message. 💬

📍 Yandina, Sunshine Coast
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19/10/2026

Hands in the soil 🌱
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This is what building an edible garden looks like.

Setting up the tomato frames.
Sowing corn and carrots.
Planting spring onions and capsicums, one by one.

Every step has a reason behind it: where each crop goes, what grows beside it, how much space it needs, and what will follow it next season.
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There's something about this work that never gets old.
Being outside all day, with the sun on your back and your hands in the soil. 🌿

The quiet focus of planting, row after row.

The smell of fresh compost and the first watering once a bed is done.

And knowing that what goes into the ground today will end up on a family's table in a few weeks. That part still feels as good as it did the first time. 🥕
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A good edible garden isn't just planted. It's designed, built and looked after, so it keeps producing season after season.

Want one at your place?
Comment "GARDEN" below and I'll send you a message. 💬

📍 Sunshine Coast, QLD
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18/10/2026

Pollinators 🐝
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Not everything we plant in an edible garden is for us.
Some of it is for the small, busy visitors we rarely stop to notice. Without them, most of the food on our plates simply wouldn't happen.
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When a bee moves from flower to flower, it carries pollen that fertilises the plant. That's what turns a flower into a fruit, and a fruit into seed.

The better a flower is pollinated, the better the fruit develops: fuller zucchinis and cucumbers, well-formed strawberries, heavier crops of tomatoes and beans.

Australia has more than 1,600 species of native bees, from tiny stingless bees to the blue-banded bee, which shakes pollen loose from tomato and eggplant flowers with a buzz that honeybees can't do. 💙
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That's why some of the plants I choose for a garden are there for their flowers. 🌼
Herbs like basil, dill and coriander, and companions like cosmos, calendula and alyssum, keep a steady supply of nectar and pollen across the seasons, so pollinators always have a reason to stay.

It's also worth letting a few vegetables go to flower. 🥬
Bolting lettuce, rocket, brassicas and herbs become a feast for bees and other insects. And once those flowers set seed, you can save it from your healthiest plants: seed already adapted to your soil and your climate, ready for next season.
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A few more ways to look after them:
🌿 Skip the sprays. Most insecticides don't tell the difference between a pest and a pollinator.
💧 Leave a shallow dish of water with a few stones for them to land on.
🪵 Leave some bare ground and hollow stems. Many native bees nest there.
A garden full of flowers and life is a garden that produces. 🌱
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Want a garden that feeds you and the life around it?
Comment "GARDEN" below and I'll send you a message. 💬

📍 Sunshine Coast, QLD

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14/10/2026

Growing food changes the way you see a garden. 🌿
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You stop looking at plants as decoration and start seeing them as part of your everyday life.
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You notice the seasons.
You learn to work with nature instead of against it.
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You appreciate food in a completely different way when you've grown it yourself. 🥬
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And every harvest becomes a reminder that good things simply take time.
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That's what I hope every garden can offer.
If you'd like to create one, I'd love to help.
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🌱 This is the edible garden we installed for Deanne in Cooroibah, one part of a larger, ongoing transformation of her garden.

Want one at your place?
Comment "GARDEN" below and I'll send you a message. 💬

📍 Sunshine Coast, QLD

18/09/2026

I could watch natives in the rain all day.

Banksia spinulosa doing its thing. 🌧️

16/09/2026

225 native plants, one very intentional planting plan. 🌿

This bush regeneration project in Verrierdale was designed to bring more native vegetation back into the property while responding to what was happening around it.

Along the Eumundi–Noosa Road boundary, we created a dense native buffer to help screen the property from the busy road, while the southern boundary was planted with a fast-growing bamboo screen for privacy and separation from the neighbouring property.

Across the rest of the site, every one of the 225 plants had its place — from future canopy trees to flowering feature species and lower layers filling the spaces between them.

A lot of plants, a lot of planning, and a project we’re both very excited to watch grow.

29/07/2026

Sometimes a sick tree needs a proper hard prune. ✂️🍊

This orange tree was struggling with a heavy case of Sooty Mould—that black coating left behind by sap-sucking pests like aphids and scale.

Normally, a healthy citrus only needs a light tidy-up. But when a tree gets this choked up, a gentle trim just won't cut it. We had to go hard and open it right up into a goblet shape to remove the diseased growth and let the sun and air get right into the canopy.

The heavy prune fixes the immediate issue, but long-term health comes from the ground up: keep the grass back, throw down a good layer of mulch, and feed the soil with rich compost twice a year. 🌱

How are your fruit trees holding up this season? Let us know in the comments! 👇

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