Passionate gardener and intensive care nurse, Wei Jin Yeong has bucked the usual suburban backyard trends and created a perennial paradise with a real wow factor!

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Growing up in Malaysia, Wei Jin sought new inspiration for a Melbourne garden as the tropical species of home were not suited to the cooler climate. Perennials fit the bill with their uplifting colours and forms, so Wei Jin turned the entire front and back yards of his home with a combination of different perennials that flower at different times and provide lots of interest.

“Sometimes after work I’ll just stand out here and watch the whole place move as the wind blows by – the whole place seems to shimmer in colour.”

There was no initial plan for the garden and no hardscaping, with the plants forming the structure of the garden and trial and error deciding what worked and what did not.

The plants include Russian Sage, which has a long flowering season, tall flower spikes and fragrant leaves, complemented by the tall pink flower spikes of Agastache cv. that the bees love too. There are plenty of different salvias throughout the garden that also provide hundreds of tiny yet brilliantly coloured blooms. Diversity is brought in with Sedum ‘Matrona’ - a succulent with a perennial growth habit and beautiful clusters of pink flowers – and grasses that have long seed heads with feathery textures that move with the wind and provide colour contrast to the sea of greens and pinks.

Wei Jin finds there are similarities between gardening and nursing. “You need time and patience, you need to create the right environment for your plants to thrive, and it’s the same with nursing you know, you create the right environment for your patients to heal and thrive.”

Featured Plants
Russian Sage Salvia yangii syn. Perovskia atriplicifolia
Agastache cv.
Salvia ‘Amethyst’ Salvia nemorosa cv.
Sedum ‘Matrona’ Hylotelephium cv.
Sea Holly ‘Blaukappe’ Eryngium planum cv.


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