The humble Oleander

The oleander is a much under-valued shrub, but it can be found all over Australia  in public places such as cemeteries, churchyards and old parks,  as well as being used as a street tree, often on beach fronts. The fact that it is poisonous in every part puts people off planting it in their gardens…

Where did all this start?

In 1999 my husband and I  purchased a couple of tired sheep paddocks in a narrow valley surrounded by high hills 20 km from the town of Mudgee in the Central West of New South Wales. We had lived in the Inner West of Sydney for 30 years and had miniscule garden, but longed to…