Gardening in Western Australia is not for the faint hearted. It is an ancient landmass with nutrient impoverished and hydrophobic soils, extremes of heat and winds that would rip the top off a custard pudding – and a lot of beach sand!
When I first arrived in Perth from northern NSW in 1979, I rented a house near the coast and began to establish a garden. I couldn’t understand why any...
