Garden Guides
Everything you need to know…
Whether you are retrofitting an existing garden or creating a new garden, our Garden Guides have all the information you need for a beautiful Bay OK garden.
By adopting the three overarching Bay OK principles, you can help to protect our waterways and Geographe Bay – and have the garden you have always dreamt of!
1. Minimise nutrient runoff – a best practice approach to improving your soil and managing your nutrient outputs
2. Conserve water – practical and simple initiatives to improve water efficiency and avoid overwatering and leaching of nutrients from your garden into waterways
3. Support local biodiversity – simple features and approaches that can be incorporated into your garden to help support local biodiversity. Click here for Bird-friendly rodent control, or here for how to build a nesting box.
4. Assess your own garden against these principles with our Garden Assessment Tool
Garden guides and resources
- Bay OK Garden Guide: A simple guide for Geographe Bay Eagle Bay to Dalyellup
- Bay OK Garden Guide: Creating a new garden in the Geographe Catchment
- Coastal Gardens: A planting guide for Geographe Bay Bunker Bay to Dalyellup
- Coastal Gardens: A planting guide for the south west capes coastal region: Augusta to Yallingup
- Advice on designing a waterwise garden in South West WA from Water Corporation
- Keeping it Local: Native plant species guide for South West WA
- Growing Local Native Plants in Dunsborough Urban Areas- A guide
- Growing Local Native Plants in Busselton Urban Areas – A guide
- Your Guide to a water efficient garden, WA Edition by Irrigation Australia
- Grow Local Plants – Save water, money and bring life back to your garden
- Love the Leschenault: Your garden guide by the Leschenault Catchment Council