Description
Native reimagines Australian flora through the eyes of artists, landscape designers, and horticulturalists, showcasing how native trees, shrubs, and flowers can be transformed into sculptural, functional, and deeply expressive elements of design. With chapters like Feature Foliage, Shady Spaces, and Flowering Meadows, this beautifully illustrated book is both a practical guide and a visual celebration of Australia’s botanical identity.
This book surveys the ways native trees, shrubs, flowers and foliage can be put to surprising and beautiful uses by some of the most creative people working with plants today. Interviews with celebrated landscape designers, artists and gardeners – including Fiona Brockhoff, Janet Laurence and Tracey Deep – bring to light so many ways to celebrate the sculptural natives that shape our everyday spaces. This richly illustrated book is the ideal source when seeking the perfect feature plant for a space of any size. With stunning photography of gardens old and new, this book captures the most creatively inspiring Australian plants and the people who work with them.
Winner of the Indie Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction 2018 and Shortlisted for ABIA Illustrated Book of the Year 2018.
About the Authors
Kate Herd is an author, artist and landscape designer. She is enthused by all types of gardens but especially those that celebrate a distinct sense of place through imaginative and plant-centred design. She has written for The Planthunter and The Age and is the author of Kitchen Gardens of Australia.
Jela Ivankovic-Waters is a highly regarded horticulturalist and landscape designer. She brings a scientific and editorial lens to the project, drawing on her background in plant research and publishing.
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