Good Organic Gardening

Plant a carpet of flowering natives

A wonderful way to create a good organic garden is to promote biodiversity across your landscape, whatever its size, and the best way to do this is to try and recreate what happens in a healthy, wild ecosystem. One of Australia’s most spectacular natural landscapes is the wildflower meadow that reaches its peak in the couple of years after a bushfire.

Wild natives like everlasting and paper daisies, billy buttons and can also be used in the home garden — not just to create a riot of colour but also to attract a diverse range of birds and insects that will help to create a healthy ecosystem.

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