My Garden as featured on Gardening Australia August 1st 2025.

Well it’s been about 10 months since filming and it’s finally airing, our segment on the ABC’s Gardening Australia.

We had the best fun with Costa over the two days of filming and hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.

My garden is situated in Brisbane Qld Australia on a block that is around 1.7 acres. 

The climate is subtropical but boy we’ve had some dry spells over the 12 years that we have lived here.

Being virtually on the top of a hill we get sun from the east and the west, plus all the prevailing winds… and the soil, don’t ask.

It’s a terrible mix of shale and rocky schist. This had equated to years of adding copious amounts of organic matter and a sea of trial and error planting.

When people ask, what style of garden do I have, my quick response is “Claire style’ lol….. meaning eclectic.

It’s a mix of all the plants and gardening passions I love. Australia natives, mixed with cottage perennials, flowering aloes and succulents, 

with edibles galore consisting of fruiting trees, veggies, herbs and of course chooks. All with a twist of my permaculture background, love of garden art, majestic trees and creation of garden nooks and ponds.

 I hope you enjoy a peek into our little green haven that brings myself, husband and three children so much joy over the years and continues to do so.

Watch the episode on ABC iView at: https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2405V023S00