A Growing Collection

The joy of garden plants

Yuruga Nursery, Walkamin, Far North Queensland.

The local native plant nursery released its new stock list on 1 July. I’ll visit the nursery but won’t buy any plants, I told myself. I visited the nursery three times and bought plants on every trip.

I live in the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, a narrow band of rainforest on the north-eastern coast of Australia. Declared a World Heritage Area in 1988, the Wet Tropics is…