Thank you to everyone who shared their beautiful winter gardens with us! We loved seeing your green spaces, big and small, and hope this gallery inspires your own gardening adventures.
Congratulations to our winner, Mcora Farming from Victoria! We loved the layout of your garden and were particularly charmed by you tractor and rusty beds!
Mcora Farming (VIC)
This months winner!
Mcora Farming said: We live with 6 people and needing more food options, 7 large custom steel beds 8mts long x 1 mtr wide, 1 bed on the ground for garlic/corn and then to top it off with an old rustic tractor with a seeder drill on the back, converted with herbs at the back of it. The veggie garden is surrounded by 40 fruit trees.
Mcora Farming said: An old tractor with the seeder has herbs growing all year round! Great feature to the garden
Mcora Farming said: These sunflowers were just amazing so tall and beautiful
Lucinda (NSW)
Mcora Farming said: Hi. My garden is my own quirky style. I have my zygocactus growing in my covered area & with a raised bed which at the moment I have full of silverbeet (which I love to eat ). It originally was for strawberries the raised bed. But at the moment it’s the silverbeet patch instead.
Mcora Farming said: Love this small area. I put some pots in to cheer up an otherwise boring small area. I’ve a nsw Christmas bush. A woolly bush. An azalea & a pot of polyanthus with some tête-à-tête daffodil bulbs ready for the warmer months & just few other flowery ones as well.
Mcora Farming said: I had this corner in my garden that was just asking for a feature. So I decided on to put beside my residing Venus statue a water feature. It’s a plastic half barrel pot with a solar powered water fountain floating in it. The birds love it & it brings more joy to my garden.
Jenni (QLD)
Jenni said: Wet soggy winter in the tropics. I like it, l add to the garden, my lemongrass, pawpaws, Thai basil, frangipanis with the beautiful hippie's but don't forget the dwarf beans. Adding colour with homemade structures.
Jenni said: Revamping the hanging baskets.
Jenni said: Adding colour to my garden.
Margi (NSW)
Margi said:
My winter vegetable patch is looking healthy with caulifower and broccolli that I grew from The Seed Collection seeds. I can protect the plants from the white moth as soon as it appears (often with the August westerlies) by zipping up the netted tunnels.
In my cool greenhouse (high tunnel shape) I am getting ready to dig in the next two gardens now full of an autumn/winter green manure crop. I will soon chop it into the garden beds and mix with mushroom compost, then leave it to mulch over winter ready for summer crops (mainly lettuce, tomatoes, capsicum and eggplants as well as cucumber).
Jo (QLD)
Jo said: Winter in North Queensland. Lots of corn.
Jo said: Zuchinnis, Beets, Tomato & Silverbeet
Jo said: Garlic in November.
Lucilla (TAS)
Lucilla said: Turning leaves into confetti in my winter garden. Nothing like a crisp morning and a bit of leaf-mowing fun!
Lucilla said: A little bee, a big reminder that even in my winter garden, life is still buzzing.
Lucilla said: Green and gold leaves and quiet paths — my winter garden is a gentle reminder that change can be beautiful.
Mr Aussie Dad (NSW)
Mr Aussie Dad said: My winter garden with summer veggies! With supermarket veggie prices sky high, I've turned our spare shower into a summer garden using cheap reflective solar blankets, a 150w LED grow light and 80w greenhouse heater. I call this my "Shower Farm".
Mr Aussie Dad said: Suyo Long cucumbers and Calmart and Moscovich tomatoes in 20L buckets are growing like crazy. Yum!
Mr Aussie Dad said: An old, well-worn electric toothbrush is my busy pollinator every morning before I head to work.
Westbreen Primary garden go getters. (VIC)
Westbreen Primary garden go getters. said: The primary school vegetable garden, I look after with our students slowly starting to grow our winter crops.
Compost made from our classroom fruit waste adds wonderful nutrients you our garden where the students see it transformed from scraps to compost to garden to picking and eating the vegetables we grow.
Westbreen Primary garden go getters. said: Our asparagus bed flanked by 2 blueberry bushes and a lavender. Fingers crossed we can start harvesting asparagus in Spring. By bringing in pollinators with the help of our new flower pots, hopefully it will help us grow bigger more plentiful crops.
Westbreen Primary garden go getters. said: After a very successful first time growing loofah. We picked 15! The unseasonal warm weather has confused the plant and we have more growing! Best tip is make sure your trellis is very sturdy.
Dom Peters (QLD)
Dom said: My take on Eco brutalism. Mixing grasses, fern and moss with flowing Silver Dichondra, Cousin It and Scarlet Boganvillea. Cineraria, Red Flash Lotus to accentuate the levels
Dom said: Scarlet Boganvillea in front of Native Purple fountain grass.
Dom said: Making use of the shade to grow moss
Mrs Gardner (NSW)
Mrs Gardner said: Sleepy winter flower beds generously mulched with autumn leaves, nestled between pretty, wattle wood chip paths. Even after a light frost, the baby pincushions and everlasting daisies are still happy, slowly growing, awaiting the warmth of spring!
Mrs Gardner said:
‘Paper Daisy- Pink and White
Everlasting’
Rhodanthe chlorocephala
This Australian native daisy seems to be quite happy growing in my (temperate) winter flower garden!
Mrs Gardner said: Young Red Acre cabbage plants in a bed of autumn leaves. The pests aren’t a problem in this cooler weather, and they should be nice and sweet when I turn them into delicious purple sauerkraut!
Jenny (SA)
Jenny said: 'Up the garden path', a feel of waiting for Spring! Espaliered fruit trees along the fenceline are waiting to fruit, late-season sunflowers are inching along, garlic is growing patiently and in the background, golden asparagus fronds will be pruned to give way to bare earth soon. Capsicums can't be seen in the back garden bed but are overwintering and continue to ripen.
Jenny said: My favourite Snapdragons in bloom in the garden bed next to the sandpit, with carnations to each side and Cosmos self-seeding. Spring wildflowers and sweet peas pending on the trellis.
Jenny said: Under the insect netting: kohl rabi beginning to swell, Mache is thriving in the 20% UV filtering; its nutty flavour is coming through and I can eat it without having to worry about 'grubbing' for caterpillars or moths first.
Kool Garden (VIC)
Kool Garden said: Growing from seed.
The two Avocado plants started off as an experiment to develop roots. They were left in water for much longer than they should have before being planted into soil outside. This is their second winter outside, and most of their growth has happened during the last 6 months. With minimal care and a lot of neglect they've manages to survive. It just goes to show the tenacious nature of nature.
May (WA)
May said: I'm new to this gardening as a newbie housewife as well.
I wanna show you our humble raise garden.
With wild rockets, mustard leaves, and more leaves.
We got help from our little friends eating the weeds I've plucked and let them have some slaters.
May said: I love how are garden has grown into a luscious greens.