COOL COASTAL

We do like to be beside the seaside - especially with plants that love this unique environment as much as we do!

1 Framing is one of the best ways to highlight unique aspects of your garden. Here, the home's sandstone corridor pulls into focus the moonahs, fringed by ornamental grasses such as lomandra, carex, and stipa.

2 Coastal gardens with their sandy soils are prone to erosion. So you don't see your garden slipping away, keep mature trees with their extended root systems and fill in spaces among other plantings with stabilisers like large sandstone rocks.

3 Coastal winds can be fierce so let your plantings - and buildings - hug the ground.

4 Pick garden art that reflects your environment, in this case, an old boat in choppy seas.