Fairhill Native Plants and Botanic Gardens in Yandina, Queensland | Garden centre

Fairhill Native Plants and Botanic Gardens

Locality: Yandina, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5446 7088

Address: Fairhill Road 4561 Yandina, QLD, Australia

Website: http://fairhill.com.au

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22.01.2022 The number of butterflies that I’ve seen this year is as good as I’ve seen in many years. The other morning we were admiring the number and diversity of them flying around the garden just to have the spell broken by a phone call asking how to control caterpillars. We have quit a number of host plants from butterflies at they make a great addition of any garden for the colour and life that the butterflies bring into the garden. And for those who like a tidy garden please pull up with a few damaged leaves for a while. The plants will recover but the butterflies won’t if you kill their larvae.

21.01.2022 I've been wanting to have a workshop on creating a habitat for pollinators for quite a while. A couple of reports recently highlighting pending species losses, particularly In this country. I have a few really great people interested in talking. Interested????

20.01.2022 Had these guys walk in today, I went down to them and the older guy said "I have a planter box 1 x 1 x 1 metre that I want to plant out. I want Elephant Ears on the corners and an Agavy in the muddle". My reply was "I can use cunjivoy on the corners, can't help with Agavy". "What have you got" Showing is always better than telling so I ask, "where are you whats the situation sun/shade." Coolum full sun was the reply. I wasn't going to put a cunjivoy in full sun so I grabbe...d Fairhill Gold and a Little Penda as a choice for centre peace and Dieties robersoniata for the corners. As I was laying them out the old guy said "Ive only got 8 months, I'm for the chop, Ive got the big C and I don't mean christianity". Without skipping a beat the Penda's were replaced with faster growing plant, the Dieties that can take2 years to flower changed for Kangaroo Paw and some flowering plants to. drape over the edges of the planter box, bagged up potting mix to fill the container - job done. Thats not right ... we talked, we bantered, no pretensions, no biases. After helping tho load their car the son shook my hand and thanked me (I think for treating his dad well and giving him what he wants), his dad shook my hand and I said look after yourself. I hope that he gets relief after his chemo, I sure that Ill meet him again. I like his no bullshit attitude and most importantly I know that he will like his garden. See more

20.01.2022 My last post was both happy and sad, manly happy, - I hate that the guy has cancer but we got on really well when they left they left as friends. I treat everyone who comes through Fairhill as equals, if they are wealthy or poor, sick or well. Almost always they have a an area that they want to beautify. I always ask "where are you, whats your soil, whats the conditions (sun, shade.etc.) and the most important question what are you trying to achieve?". Often, as in my las...t post, the story evolves. I show plants explaining how they will look, sometimes lay out a mockup of the garden. I've been doing this for quite some time and 99 times out of 100 the people appreciate the effort. The encounter mentions in my last post worked because I din't feel sorry for him, didn't pander because he was sick, we talked as equals. And I tried dammed hard to create a garden that fills his needs and unfortunately in his case, timeline. See more

16.01.2022 The birds are incredible at the moment. We always have an amazing amount of birds but with the cooler days they are active all day. The sound scape is fantastic all day.

16.01.2022 The most enjoyable aspect of a native garden is the wildlife, especially the birds the they provide a habitat for. In these trying times we are still open, giving people a calm place full of distractions provided by birds, kangaroos and other wildlife and helping the develop a beautiful garden that invites birds and other wildlife.

13.01.2022 Hibbertia vestita makes a great pot plant as well as being a top little garden in sun or part shade

10.01.2022 With all the hype about this virus and uncertainties over what will happen next, the gardens at Fairhill offers a place of piece and serenity. And like getting into the garden to put in few plants a distraction from all of worries that the world will thrown up. We invite all to come and enjoy the gardens and be distracted by the antics of the birds and other wildlife that call Fairhill homes.

07.01.2022 I've just had a look at some of the comments on my posts.My first realisation is how slack I've been at relying, sorry but Im not really into this type of communion, Im more of a dirt under the fingernails type of guy. But what is so so obvious is the lake of representation of the diversity that our native flora has to offer. I've helped with the supply of plants for probably hundreds of gardens, some that require a hundred or more plants to fill them and have been able to offer such a range of colour, texture and form that are one hundred or more different plants used. The Australian flora gives us such a broad and unique palet to use in our gardens. And then theres the wildlife. ENOUPH, most of what I do every day, helping, advising, problem solving ... Im afraid its beyond my capabilities when it comes to online communication.

04.01.2022 I had two customers that highlighted two different conundrums today that come up often. The first was a customer on average wanting trees along their boundary fast growing ... gumtrees were mentioned. Great, I got 20 odd Eucalypts and was nearly through describing what they do when he pointed at a E. citriodora growing in our garden (one of my faverate trees tall white trunk, graceful, beautiful canopy of pendules scented leaves) and asked "is that what they will do". "Ye...s" I replied, "they are trees". I stuffed up. I took the terminology literally. Terminology is important when communicating, a tree is a plant that has a clear trunk with a canopy, What was needed was a tall bush/shrub. I stuffed up by being led by the terminology verbalised, not asking what was needed. I was intending to make this a rant about terminology but I think that it is probably more important to ask our people to let us know what is needed. In this case Was led by the ask for trees where what was needed was large shrubs. See more

04.01.2022 When I layout a garden there are a number of disciplines that I use to guide me. The clients requirements. Screening, flowers, shade, sun, views etc. Soil type and aspect. What the growing conditions are like - what will grow there. And what can be done to improve the soil if needed. Sense of place. Sense of place is using plants within the the garden that grow in the area as the framework for the garden. Bird habitat. As far as l’m concerned a garden devoid of wildlife is ...not a garden. The garden in the photos are of Joans’ garden. I planted it a bit under a year ago. The estate that she’s in is called Rainforest Place, there are rainforest species around but also other plant groups like Banksias, Melaleuca and small wildflower plants. The brief was I want my birds back and low maintenance. She was also concerned that the plants didn’t grow to big. Joan is also into endemic plants. The end result is there are one or two hybrids, a few sp. from other parts of Australia with over 70% of the plants coming from the local area. There is plenty of nectar producing plants for the honeyeaters, plants that produce fruit for fruit eaters and plants have small seeds for the finches and fairy wrens. I think that it has come up a treat See more

03.01.2022 Swamp Bloodwood. A beautiful looking weeping plant and a show off when it flowers.

01.01.2022 We planted this garden at Mt Coolum in February. Most of the plants were in 140mm pots and about 200mm to 300mm in height. It was so dry that it was a real struggle to get the sandy soil to take any water. Almost all the plants have done really well dispite the very harsh planting conditions. Here’s how the garden is looking now even though the owners were away for the past 6 months.