A YEAR IN BLOOMS
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO GROWING A GARDEN THAT FLOWERS IN EVERY SEASON
A$89 - 71-page instant PDF download, featuring over 100 plants
There is nothing as beautiful as a garden filled with flowers. But many gardens often go through dry spells, where not a single thing seems to be in bloom.
It’s easy to grow a gorgeous, colourful garden in spring, but a lot of Perth gardeners don’t realise that your garden can also look incredible through summer, autumn and winter, too. You just need to have good tactics. This book will teach you how.
In this comprehensive insider’s blueprint to a flower-filled garden, I take you through all of the strategies I use in my own garden to maximise colour all year round.
You’ll find:
Design advice for combining structural perennial plants with bright bursts of annual colour and bulbs that pop up in every season.
A comprehensive index of plant descriptions of every flowering plant that I love to grow (over 100 plants). Most importantly these are flowering plants that I find grow easily and successfully in a Perth climate.
Advice on how to grow and care for every plant described in the book, including optimal growing conditions and planting times.
Four pinwheels that show exactly what plants flower and when. This will help you see at a glance exactly what plants to add to your garden to fill any colourless dry spells you’re dealing with
Photos (all taken from my own garden), showcasing the most beautiful blooming plants I grow, with examples of how you can combine them in your own garden beds
Tips for caring for a flower garden and maximising the health of your plants
I wrote this book because I think a world full of flowers is simply a more cheerful and more beautiful place.
I know first-hand how wonderful it is to step outside and revel in the beauty of your garden in every season, and I wanted to help other Perth gardeners overcome the struggles I faced when I first started building a resilient garden filled with year-round colour.
This 71-page guidebook is my longest gardening book to date. In fact, it isn’t really a guidebook; it’s an insiders blueprint to growing a garden that fills you with joy - and your home with freshly cut flowers - every day of the year.
I do hope you love it!
Happy gardening,
xx Casey
There is nothing as beautiful as a garden filled with flowers. But many gardens often go through dry spells, where not a single thing seems to be in bloom.
It’s easy to grow a gorgeous, colourful garden in spring, but a lot of Perth gardeners don’t realise that your garden can also look incredible through summer, autumn and winter, too. You just need to have good tactics. This book will teach you how.
In this comprehensive insider’s blueprint to a flower-filled garden, I take you through all of the strategies I use in my own garden to maximise colour all year round.
A Year in Blooms: The Insider’s Blueprint
A comprehensive guide to growing a garden that flowers all year round.
What you’LL FIND INSIDE:
🌱 Design advice for combining structural perennial plants with bright bursts of annual colour and bulbs that pop up in every season.
🌱 A comprehensive index of plant descriptions of every flowering plant that I love to grow (over 100 plants). Most importantly these are flowering plants that I find grow easily and successfully in a Perth climate.
🌱 Advice on how to grow and care for every plant described in the book, including optimal growing conditions and planting times.
🌱 Four pinwheels that show exactly what plants flower and when. This will help you see at a glance exactly what plants to add to your garden to fill any colourless dry spells you’re dealing with
🌱 Photos (all taken from my own garden), showcasing the most beautiful blooming plants I grow, with examples of how you can combine them in your own garden beds
🌱 Tips for caring for a flower garden and maximising the health of your plants
I wrote this book because I think a world full of flowers is simply a more cheerful and more beautiful place.
I know first-hand how wonderful it is to step outside and revel in the beauty of your garden in every season, and I wanted to help other Perth gardeners overcome the struggles I faced when I first started building a resilient garden filled with year-round colour.
This 144-page guidebook is my longest gardening book to date. In fact, it isn’t really a guidebook; it’s an insiders blueprint to growing a garden that fills you with joy - and your home with freshly cut flowers - every day of the year.
About casey
I'm a Perth gardener, writer and cookbook author who has spent the last ten years turning a sandy, empty patch of dead grass into a flower-filled, bug-filled, slightly wild garden.
I've written a Sunday Times gardening column, published three cookbooks, and run sold-out garden workshops across Perth.
A Year in is the result of my own trial and error - figuring out what products and processes actually turn our beach sand into proper soil. After years of battling grey, dry Perth sand, I finally have earthworms everywhere I dig. This guide is the quick and simple way to get you to where I am now.
A Year in Blooms: The Insider’s Blueprint
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No waiting, no postage.
If you've ever watched Gardening Australia and wondered what on earth you're doing wrong - why your plants grow spindly and pale, why water runs straight off your beds - the answer is almost always the same.
Soil. They just have good soil. And you just have bad soil.
Perth soil is sandy, hydrophobic and nutritionally poor. The products the garden industry sells you to fix it (liquid fertilisers, power feeds, soil wetters) are a bandaid. They don't fix anything.
This 30-page guide shows you what actually does work: clay, compost, animal manure and mulch, added in the right order. Written specifically for Perth's conditions, not the east coast or the UK.
Over 350 Perth gardeners have already used it to build healthier soil, stronger plants and more productive gardens.
What's included:
30-page PDF guide - instant download
12-minute video walkthrough of a real Perth garden bed being improved from scratch
You'll learn:
Why Perth soil behaves the way it does
What to add and in what order to build soil structure properly
How to maintain healthy soil through summer without constant intervention
Why wetting agents and liquid fertilisers don't move the needle (and what does)
After purchase you'll receive an automatic download link to your inbox. If it doesn't arrive, check your junk folder. Make sure to download your file within 24 hours.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Completely. This is written for Perth's sandy, coastal soil, it is not generic advice that applies to gardens in Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania or the UK.
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A PDF guide you can read on your phone, tablet or computer, plus a video walkthrough hosted online. Both are accessible immediately after purchase.
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Yes, if you're still battling sandy soil. The methods in this guide work regardless of experience level. Many of my customers are experienced gardeners who just hadn't cracked the Perth soil problem.
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No. The ingredients I recommend are simple - clay, animal manure and mulch. All three are widely available at nurseries across Perth and can also be delivered to your door in bulk.
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You'll receive an automatic download link to your inbox immediately after purchase. If it doesn't arrive, check your junk folder.
If you've ever watched Gardening Australia and wondered what on earth you're doing wrong - why your plants grow spindly and pale, why water runs straight off your beds - the answer is almost always the same.
Soil. They just have good soil. And you just have bad soil.
Perth soil is sandy, hydrophobic and nutritionally poor. The products the garden industry sells you to fix it (liquid fertilisers, power feeds, soil wetters) are a bandaid. They don't fix anything.
This 30-page guide shows you what actually does work: clay, compost, animal manure and mulch, added in the right order. Written specifically for Perth's conditions, not the east coast or the UK.
Over 350 Perth gardeners have already used it to build healthier soil, stronger plants and more productive gardens.
What's included:
30-page PDF guide - instant download
12-minute video walkthrough of a real Perth garden bed being improved from scratch
You'll learn:
Why Perth soil behaves the way it does
What to add and in what order to build soil structure properly
How to maintain healthy soil through summer without constant intervention
Why wetting agents and liquid fertilisers don't move the needle (and what does)
After purchase you'll receive an automatic download link to your inbox. If it doesn't arrive, check your junk folder. Make sure to download your file within 24 hours.
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A practical guide to starting a Perth garden from nothing.
Starting a Perth garden from nothing is both exciting and completely paralysing. Where do the beds go? How do you get rid of the lawn? What goes in first?
This practical guide walks you through how to sketch your layout, decide where to place garden beds, trees and paths, deal with whatever lawn you're starting with, and get your irrigation right from the beginning.
If you have zero time to think, let alone garden, it also gives realistic guidance and options for a ‘bare minimum’ approach, so you can get your garden underway even with young kids/a hectic job/general life chaos.
There’s no complicated design theory, this is just a clear, step-by-step process for turning an empty block into a garden that grows with you.
Instant PDF download. Perth-specific.
Important note:
After your purchase, you will receive a secure link to download the ebook. The link is valid for 24 hours, so be sure to download it directly following your purchase. If you do not receive the download link, check your junk mail.
1 - Before you improve your soil, you need a plan for your garden. The Blank Slate Garden will show you how to create one.
2 - Once your soil is sorted, the next step is knowing what to plant. The Perth Plant Palette gives you 36 Perth-proof plants with design notes, pairing suggestions and six ready-made garden recipes.
Perth garden centres (lovely as they are) will sell you hydrangeas, camellias and hostas with a smile. They're beautiful plants - I love them. I also hate them, because they always (always!!) die on me. These plants dislike almost everything about Perth, and keeping them alive is a frustrating uphill battle.
That’s not what gardening is supposed to be!
After more than a decade gardening in hot, sandy and dry Perth, I've found the plants that actually want to be here. The ones that are tough, genuinely beautiful, and combine endlessly in ways that make a garden feel like it was designed rather than cobbled together.
This is that list.
The Perth Plant Palette is a 120-page guide to 36 of my favourite Perth-proof plants, organised into a capsule wardrobe you can mix, layer and repeat throughout your garden.
What's inside:
36 detailed plant profiles across six categories: trees, larger perennials, annuals, climbers, edibles and bulbs. Each plant has a full entry covering why I love it, how to use it in your design, growing notes for Perth's conditions, and pairing suggestions so you know exactly what to plant beside it.
Six garden recipes: Shady Grotto, Edible Garden, Jungle/Tropical, Cottage Garden, Mediterranean/Dry Garden and Potted/Courtyard, each with a full plant list and step-by-step layering guide so you can apply a ready-made planting template to your own space.
Original photography throughout, a Perth-specific Pinterest board, and a design approach that treats your garden like a capsule wardrobe: a considered, curated collection of plants that work together beautifully, rather than a random assortment of things that looked good at the nursery but suddenly made no sense once you got them home.
This guide is for you if:
You're tired of plants dying on you and want a reliable starting point
You want your garden to look thoughtfully planted, rather than chaotic or accidental
You're starting from scratch and have no idea what to plant where
You've been gardening in Perth for years but you’re bored and want some new plant inspiration
What you won't find here: generic advice written for England, the US, or east-coast Australian gardens, plants that need coddling, or a list so long it's paralysing. This is deliberately edited - that's the whole point :)
A$49 — instant PDF download. Perth-specific. 120 pages.
After purchase you'll receive an automatic download link to your inbox. Check your junk folder if it doesn't arrive, and download the pdf within 24 hours.