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Water-Wise Gardening | Sustainable Design | Adaptable Plant Strategies

Futureproof Your Garden is a practical and inspiring guide to creating healthy, resilient landscapes that thrive in changing climates. Written by respected horticulturalists Angus Stewart and Emma Stewart, this book offers expert advice on using, capturing and storing water efficiently, selecting adaptable plants and designing gardens that perform beautifully in both drought and deluge. With comprehensive photographic plant directories and step-by-step DIY how-tos - from wicking beds to capillary watering and deep irrigation - it equips gardeners of all levels with the tools to grow more with less. 

Ideal For:

• Home gardeners creating water-efficient gardens
• Native, edible and ornamental planting enthusiasts
• Garden designers and landscape DIYers
• Anyone preparing gardens for climate variability

Key Features:
✅ Focus on sustainable, water-wise gardening strategies 
✅ Photographic plant directory with advice on what to plant and where 
✅ Practical design know-how adaptable to gardens of all sizes
✅ Detailed soil care and water management techniques 
✅ Includes photo essays and hands-on DIY projects

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Inspiration & Practical Design | Expert Planting Advice | Transform Your Space

Garden of Your Dreams by Charlie Albone helps gardeners of all levels turn their outdoor spaces into beautiful, functional landscapes. Drawing on Charlie’s years of design and horticultural experience, this book blends inspiring garden ideas with practical advice on planning, plant selection, soil preparation, waterwise strategies and seasonal care. With tips on layout, colour, texture and form, it supports you in creating a garden that reflects your style, suits your climate and thrives in its environment.

A perfect mix of photography, design insight and step-by-step guidance, this book is ideal for homeowners, hobby gardeners and landscape design enthusiasts.

Ideal For:

• Homeowners and DIY gardeners planning a garden makeover
• Anyone seeking inspiration and practical design tips
• Small spaces, courtyards, patios and backyard landscapes
• Gift buyers looking for an engaging, beautifully written garden book

Key Features:
✅ Expert design and planting strategies from a professional landscape designer
✅ Practical guidance on plant selection, layout and garden care
✅ Beautiful photography and illustrations to inspire your next project
✅ Covers both aesthetic and functional garden elements

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Garden Ecology & Design • Australian Native Focus • Inspiring Landscape Insight

Habitat by A.B. Bishop is a beautifully written exploration of garden ecology, native planting and the relationships between plants, people and place. With a strong focus on sustainable design, habitat creation and thoughtful landscape practice, this book combines ecological understanding with practical inspiration for creating gardens that work with nature. Perfect for anyone interested in biodiversity, habitat-focused gardening, and cultivating gardens that are both beautiful and beneficial for wildlife.

Filled with evocative writing and insightful perspectives, Habitat inspires readers to think deeply about how landscapes function and how thoughtful planting choices can enhance ecological balance.

Ideal For:

• Gardeners interested in ecological and habitat-based design
• Australian native planting enthusiasts
• Landscape designers and sustainability-focused creators
• Gift shoppers seeking a thoughtful garden book

Key Features:
✅ Explores the theory and practice of ecological garden design
✅ Focus on creating habitat, biodiversity and native planting success
✅ Insightful, reflective writing to inspire thoughtful gardeners
✅ Perfect for both hobbyists and professionals

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Easy Start Guide | Practical How-To | Grow Your Own Food

Kitchen Gardening for Beginners by Katie Elzer-Peters is the perfect first book for anyone wanting to grow their own vegetables, herbs and edible plants - whether in backyard plots, raised beds, small courtyards or balcony containers. Written in clear, user-friendly language, this guide covers everything from choosing what to grow, understanding soil and sun, planting and watering, through to harvesting and ongoing care. Katie’s practical insights help new gardeners build confidence and enjoy the rewards of fresh, home-grown produce.

Brimming with step-by-step advice, garden plans, trouble-shooting tips and seasonal checklists, this book makes starting a kitchen garden simple and satisfying.

Ideal For:

• Complete beginners taking their first steps into edible gardening
• Home gardeners with small spaces - patios, balconies, backyard veg plots
• Anyone wanting to grow vegetables, herbs and fruit at home
• Gift shoppers seeking an inspiring, practical gardening book

Key Features:
✅ Beginner-friendly guidance from site planning to harvest
✅ Easy, actionable steps for soil, seed, watering and pest care
✅ Seasonal tips and checklists to keep your garden productive
✅ Focus on veggies, herbs and small-space edible gardening
✅ Practical illustrations and garden examples throughout

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Practical Ecological Gardening | Thoughtful Stewardship | Inspiring Photographs

Your Natural Garden by Kelly D. Norris is a beautifully crafted guide to tending an ecologically vibrant home garden, going beyond design to explore how we care for landscapes that mimic nature. Written by an experienced horticulturist and plantsman, this book blends philosophical insight with practical guidance on understanding place, fostering biodiversity, managing growth and working with natural rhythms rather than against them. Bursting with lush photography and rich ecological concepts, it’s a must-read for gardeners who want deeper connection and better results in naturalistic planting.  

Ideal For:

• Gardeners transforming backyard and native plant landscapes
• Readers wanting ecological stewardship and naturalistic garden care
• Fans of thoughtful garden writing with both practical and conceptual insight
• Gift shoppers looking for a standout gardening book

Key Features:
✅ Practical guide to caring for naturalistic, ecologically vibrant gardens 
✅ Combines thoughtful essays with actionable guidance 
✅ Rich, inspiring photography throughout
✅ Encourages a deeper understanding of gardens as ecosystems

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east

Each piece is approximately 500mm High x 500mm Deep – perfect for seating.

Ground your outdoor living area into the landscape with a Sawn Basalt Table.

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden & Landscape Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Locally-Made | Natural rusted finish | Enhanced plant protection

Made from steel reinforcement bar, bent to curve, Steel Hoop Garden Edging is an aesthetic and sturdy solution to keeping your garden beds protected in a busy playground or backyard. Give your new plantings the best chance to thrive without the eyesore of individual stakes and guards or a chicken wire fence.

Easy to install, one unit is sold as a single hoop. Pegs Sold separately.

Hoop measure approximately 880mm in length and 680mm in Height 

Timber off-cuts to get your fire started 🔥 

Basalt Treads for Modern & Natural Landscapes 

170mm Riser | Smooth Sawn Finish | Built for Functional Elegance 

Bring strength and sophistication to your landscape with Basalt Sawn Steps – a premium choice for outdoor stairs, pathways, and garden levels. These steps are sawn top and bottom for a smooth, stable finish while showcasing the dense, fine-grained beauty of natural basalt. Their deep charcoal and slate tones offer bold contrast in both contemporary and organic garden designs. 

Ideal for:

• Outdoor stairways and garden transitions
• Stepping paths through lawn or gravel
• Entry steps for modern homes
• Feature landscaping in urban and native gardens 

Step Size (Approx.): 1000–1200mm L x 300–400mm D x 170mm H 

✅ Hardwearing volcanic stone with sleek appearance 
✅ Sawn surfaces for safe, easy installation 
✅ Perfect match for modern architecture or moody garden palettes 
✅ Pairs well with bluestone pitchers or steel edging 

Available individually or in bulk quantities. 

Local delivery available to Eltham, Research, and surrounding areas.  

Pickup also available with suitable vehicle or trailer. 

Natural earthy finish | Easy to compact | Ideal for paths & driveways

Our Fine Crushed Granite (Granitic Sand) is a finely graded decomposed honey granite ideal for creating firm, compacted paths and driveways with a soft, natural aesthetic. Its warm honey-tan tone blends beautifully with native landscapes, making it a popular choice for bush-style gardens, informal walkways, and sustainable outdoor designs.

When moistened and compacted, it forms a stable surface that’s comfortable underfoot while still allowing for natural drainage. It’s a versatile, cost-effective material suited to a range of applications around the home or in landscaping projects.

Ideal for:

• Compactable pathways and driveways
• Native and informal garden designs
• Underlays for toppings or decorative gravels
• Natural-look outdoor surfaces

Key Features:
✅ Locally sourced natural product
✅ Sandy honey/tan colour for a warm, earthy look
✅ Compacts firmly for a stable walking surface
✅ Allows natural drainage while maintaining structure

Available in bulk or by the cubic metre for pickup or local delivery from our Eltham yard.

Wide Footprint | Shallow Profile | Ideal for Feature Beds & Low Planters

The SHAPESCAPER Redcor® Steel Garden Planter Triple Rings (590mm high × 765mm diameter, 390mm high x 600mm diameter, 250mm high x 600mm diameter) offers a wide format with a low profile, making it ideal for broad plant displays, ornamental grasses, native gardens, and sculptural bedding. The large diameter gives strong visual presence while the lower height maintains open sightlines in modern garden layouts.

Crafted in Australia from 2.0mm Redcor® weathering steel, the ring forms a long-lasting, natural rusted patina that complements contemporary and industrial landscape styles. Supplied with pre-drilled holes and connector plates for quick rivet assembly.

Dimensions:
Height: 590mm / 390mm / 250mm
Diameter: 765mm / 600mm
Steel Thickness: 2.0mm BlueScope® Redcor® Steel

Ideal For:
• Wide, shallow planter beds and specimen plant groupings
• Native plantings and low-form landscape designs
• Surrounding feature rocks, sculptures, or water elements
• Commercial courtyard and streetscape landscaping
• Warm natural patina for modern architectural gardens

Key Features:
✅ Large diameter with low visual profile
✅ Redcor® weathering steel finish, no painting required
✅ Australian-made from 2.0mm BlueScope® Steel
✅ Pre-drilled plates for quick assembly
✅ Ideal for contemporary landscapes and feature plant clusters

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, with local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Sawn Stone at 35mm

Inspiration & Practical Design | Expert Planting Advice | Transform Your Space

Very Warrandyte by Bev Hanson helps gardeners of all levels turn their outdoor spaces into beautiful, functional landscapes. Drawing on Bev’s years of design and horticultural experience, this book blends inspiring garden ideas with practical advice on planning, plant selection, soil preparation, waterwise strategies and seasonal care. With tips on layout, colour, texture and form, it supports you in creating a garden that reflects your style, suits your climate and thrives in its environment.

A perfect mix of photography, design insight and step-by-step guidance, this book is ideal for homeowners, hobby gardeners and landscape design enthusiasts.

Ideal For:

• Homeowners and DIY gardeners planning a garden makeover
• Anyone seeking inspiration and practical design tips
• Small spaces, courtyards, patios and backyard landscapes
• Gift buyers looking for an engaging, beautifully written garden book

Key Features:
✅ Expert design and planting strategies from a professional landscape designer
✅ Practical guidance on plant selection, layout and garden care
✅ Beautiful photography and illustrations to inspire your next project
✅ Covers both aesthetic and functional garden elements

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Australian-Made Drainage End Cap • Recycled Polymer • Black Finish

This Easydrain Standard End Cap in Black is designed to provide a finishing point at the end of the Easydrain channel, effectively sealing the open end. It is used with both Easydrain standard and edge range.

Ideal For:

• Outdoor areas requiring surface water control
• Driveways, courtyards, patios and walkways
• Garden beds and landscaped areas with drainage needs
• Residential and light commercial projects

Key Features:
✅ UV-stabilised recycled polymer construction for durability and weather resistance 
✅ Black polymer grate provides a clean, integrated look
✅ Modular system ready to connect with converters and accessories
✅ Suitable for pedestrian areas and light load applications when installed correctly

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden & Landscape Centre, Eltham, or via local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.

Everhard Shallow Pit & Aluminium Grate – EasyDRAIN Flo-Way Pit is a durable solution for effective drainage under garden taps and downpipes, designed for areas where surface water collects.

Features

• Dimensions: 248mm x 248mm x 10mm
• Suitable for use with Everhard Flo-Ways and Rainwater Pits
• Designed for areas not exposed to vehicular traffic
• Compact depth of 75mm for Flo-way pit

Australian-Made Drainage Channel Grates

 Steel grate is designed to fit Everhard EasyDRAIN plastic channels. It's heavy vehicle rated up to 12.5 tonnes, making it perfect for driveways, carparks and high traffic areas. Upgrade your EasyDRAIN channels with these aesthetic heavy duty grates.

Ideal For:

• Outdoor areas requiring surface water control
• Driveways, courtyards, patios and walkways
• Garden beds and landscaped areas with drainage needs
• Residential and light commercial projects

Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden & Landscape Centre, Eltham, or via local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.