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Garden on the Verge (Paperback)

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Resident-planted native verge gardens supporting council street trees is the fastest, cheapest, most doable way to increase shade and biodiversity.


Drawing on practical experience and wide research, this new approach enables councils and residents to work together to make it happen.


Gayle Dallaston started her verge garden in 2017. Over the years, she studied what works, what doesn’t, why people give up, why disputes happen, and why some people never start.


You’ll learn how to navigate the different views of the many diverse users of this space.

You’ll build productive relationships and networks to make a difference in your community.

Your verge garden will be a living example of a nature-based solution to mitigate the effects of urban heat and climate change.


When we collaborate, everyone wins:

  • Council street trees thrive
  • Residents have native gardens instead of mowing
  • Natural biodiversity gets a much-needed boost


Local action creates the hope and optimism needed to do more. This strategic framework makes it scalable.


This book will help you avoid the pitfalls and give you the confidence to start.


ISBN: 9781764307703

6" x 9", 80 pages

Premium colour print.

Delivery in Australia only.


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Also available as an ebook

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Richard

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3 weeks ago

easy to reader primer on nature strip gardens

A good, easily read primer on the do's and don'ts of building your own nature strip garden. I like how it is focused on both and whys and hows of building your garden and how you interact with neighbours and local governments in the process. The author advises you to first inform yourself of the local rules governing verge gardens, and to then proceed incrementally to gauge the reactions from neighbours and others and understand the effort involved, and finally to use locally native plants where possible, preferably obtained as inexpensive tube stock to minimize subsequent maintenance efforts.
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Robert

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1 month ago

Excellent

Clear, practical, and inspiring. Strongly recommended!
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A Spotlight on Garden on the Verge: A New Approach

And Gayle, in her book Garden on the Verge: A New Approach, has done it well. The book is consciously sparing, refreshing, informative, optimistic, wise, grounded and gives a holistic view of the benefits, risks and how-to of nature strip gardening. It’s a framework for collaboration between individuals, councils and communities for the benefit of all.

Garden on the Verge: A New Approach is a small book (just 80 pages with well-spaced and sized text), but very, very generous and holistic in insight.

How Gayle talks about the personal, social and environmental benefits of verge gardens and how to respectfully work with neighbours, councils, community groups, pedestrians, even the local postie, makes it all seem possible to never mow again…and get even your most perfect-lawn-loving-weed-spraying neighbour on board.

Read the full article here

Anna Featherstone, author mentor, author of Look-It’s Your Book! November 26, 2025