Turn the garden you HAVE into the garden you WANT!
whatever your starting point
whatever your starting point
whatever your starting point
Whether this is your first attempt at gardening, or you have been gardening all your life, Kate can help you to take your garden to the next level of wonderful with a garden that is healthy and resilient.
whatever style you desire
whatever your starting point
whatever your starting point
Make your garden your own beautiful haven. Kate will teach you how to set the garden up well so that any style of garden is less work and more delight,
without the costly mistakes or the hard work
without the costly mistakes
whatever your starting point
without the costly mistakes
Gardening doesn’t have to be expensive and it doesn’t have to be hard work. Kate can teach you how to make your garden easy to care for, and within budget while still giving you everything you want in a garden.
About Kate
Kate is an ecologist and experienced gardening coach based in Brisbane, whose mission is to empower gardeners to create their own beautiful, healthy gardens.
Kate takes a very holistic approach to gardening, working with nature to create gardens that are eco friendly, resilient to problems and climate change, and where plants thrive, giving gardeners back time for living life and a fabulous garden to do that in.
Kate’s career changed from environmental science to professional gardening after the 2011 floods in which her local community was severely affected. Her volunteer efforts to restore flooded gardens saw her earn several awards and established her as a leading horticulturalist in the field of flood recovery.
Kate’s work has seen her receive peer recognition and industry awards, including:
2021 Award of Merit from the Australian Institute of Horticulture for Working With Weeds recognising the role of this work in changing our attitudes and management of weeds;
2022 Anita Boucher Award from the Horticulture Media Association Australia for her work helping gardeners recover from flooding.
Writing, Talking and more
Kate has an international following through her writings on www.GardenDrum.com/author/katewall/ and her own garden has featured on television and numerous gardening magazines.
Kate's garden featured on a 2017 episode of Gardening Australia.
Kate's passion for edible weeds has seen her interviewed numerous times. You can see/ hear/ read some of those interviews here:
Kate interviewed in her own garden about edible weeds by Sarah Maree Heironymus
Kate talks weeds on Radio National
Working With Weeds
Winner - 2021 Australian Institute of Horticulture Merit Award.
" The Australian Institute of Horticulture congratulates you Kate on this very insightful and educating book on weed management"
Earth Repair Gardening guides the reader through the garden, covering basic gardening essentials and discussing options for reducing our environmental impact at every turn. This book will make you a better gardener, it will make your garden more fabulous, and it will help you make this world a better place.
Gardeners anywhere dealing with the aftermath of flooding need this book. The damage caused by flooding can be easily recoverable when armed with this know-how which will save both heartbreak and back break in the garden.