Where to start?
The City of Charles Sturt encourages and supports our residents to rediscover the joy of gardening in our urban landscape. However, before you go ahead and start planting there are a few things you should consider detailed here in our Community Verge/Nature Strip Development Guidelines.
There is a Community Verge/Nature Strip Development Permit that will assist in planning your verge planting and obtaining a Permit to do so.
Talking to neighbours and the home owner
Verge/nature strip gardens do not require complex management structures, however, if the garden is proposed to extend over someone else’s verge/nature strip, they should be projects that are supported and jointly planned/developed by adjacent neighbours.
What support can Council offer?
Council staff may support verge/nature strip garden projects in the following ways:
- help with design ideas;
- advice on Council policies and requirements;
- provide limited horticultural advice.
Gardening Australia, ABC. In episode 1, series 23 of ABC’s Gardening Australia, presenter Costa Georgiadis takes viewers through his journey to create a verge garden: On the Verge: Starting Your Own Verge Garden
Download our Verges Alive booklet here.
Across Australia, verge/nature strip gardens have become an increasingly popular form of community gardening. Verge/nature strip gardens are gardens that people establish in the strip of council land beside the footpath at the front of their house.
Establishing and maintaining verge/nature strip gardens can be an excellent way of getting to know your neighbours, building a strong sense of community, and adding to the biodiversity and beauty of your local street.
Need more information? Get in touch with us.
Janet Willoughby
Open Space Community Planner
E: jwilloughby@charlessturt.sa.gov.au
Species | Common name | Habit and form | Height (mm) | Spread (mm) | Flower colour | Flowering time | Further information |
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Ficinia nodosa | Knobby Club Rush | Clumping, Grass Sedge or Flax | 15 - 220 | 600 | Brown | All year | Click here |
Lobelia anceps | Angled Lobelia | Ground Cover | 300 | 600 | Blue/Purple/White | All year (Peak - Nov-Apr) | Click here |
Anigozanthos 'Big red' | Kangaroo Paw | Evergreen, Clumping | 600 | 600 | Red | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Anigozanthos 'Yellow gem' | Kangaroo Paw | Evergreen, Clumping | 600 | 600 | Yellow | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Brachyscome multifida | Native Daisy | Evergreen, Mound Shaped | 200 | 300 | Blue | All year | Click here |
Calocephalus citrinus | Lemon Beauty Heads | Tufted, Dwarf | 500 | 600 | Yellow | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Carpobrotus rossii | Pig Face | Evergreen, Spreading | 300 | 1000-3000 | Pink | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Chrysocephulum apiculatum | Desert Flame | Evergreen, Spreading | 300 | 500 | Yellow | All year | Click here |
Correa 'Pink Mist' | Correa Pink Mist | Dense Spreading | 600 | 1000-3000 | Pink | Autumn, Winter | Click here |
Correa alba prostrate form | Native Fuschia | Evergreen, Dense foliage, Spreading, | 300 | 600 | White | Spring, Autumn, Winter | Click here |
Correa dusky bells | Native Fuschia - Dusky Bells | Evergreen, Mound Shaped | 600 | 2000 | Pink | All year | Click here |
Dianella revoluta | Black Anther Flax Lily | Clumping, Spreading | 600 | 1200 | Purple | Autumn, Spring | Click here |
Disphyma crassifolium | Round Leafed Pig Face | Spreading, Prostrate | 200 | 1500 | Pink | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Eremophila kalberri carpet | Tar Bush | Ground Cover | 200 | 1500 | Gold | All year | Click here |
Goodenia ovata prostrate | Goodenia | Ground Cover | 300 | 900 | Yellow | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Leucophyta brownii | Cushion Bush | Evergreen, Dense , Mounded foliage | 600 | 600 | White, Cream, Yellow | Summer | Click here |
Lomandra multiflora ssp dura | Lomandra | Perennial Tussock | 400 | 400 | Cream | Winter, Spring | Click here |
Myoporum insulare prostrate | Creeping Boobialla | Ground Cover | 300 | 1500 | White | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Rhagodia spinescens | Spiny Saltbush | Spreading, Prostrate | 600 | 2000 | Cream | Summer | Click here |
Scaevola mauve clusters | Scaevola mauve clusters | Ground Cover | 200 | 1500 | Mauve | Spring, Summer | Click here |
Vittadinia blackii | Western New Holland Daisy | Evergreen, Dense , Mounded foliage | 200 | 300 | Blue | Spring | Click here |
Wahlenbergia stricta | Wahlenbergia stricta | Evergreen | 300 | 300 | Blue | Spring, Summer, Autumn | Click here |