Turning YOU into a great gardener!
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 "level-up" your gardening!
whatever style you want
whatever your starting point
whatever your starting point
Your garden should be the garden you want, not what someone tells you you should have. Kate will help you to find and celebrate your own style in the garden, and will give you the know-how to make it work.
without the costly mistakes
whatever your starting point
without the costly mistakes
Getting some appropriate advice can really help to empower you to visit the nursery knowing how to choose plants that are likely to live and thrive in your garden. Plants that die and landscaping that doesn't work can all be avoided.
About Kate
Kate is an experienced gardening coach based in Brisbane, whose mission is to empower gardeners to create their own dream gardens; gardens which are beautiful, sustainable and personal. Kate understands the joy and fulfilment that comes from nurturing a beautiful garden and wants to enable others to experience the rewards of successful gardening for themselves.
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 that 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.