If you plant it they will come.
Phoenix Rising Flowers is a boutique native nursery and florist shop. It is situated on Kelvin and Kelly Pauls’ 500 acre property in Ashford, New South Wales. It includes a rewilded garden to accommodate Australian wildlife.
Coming to Phoenix Rising Flowers is an experience - see, hear and feel a bit of the bush as you walk around the garden. You can also buy native plants, targeted to attract fauna.
Kelly also sells floral bouquets and arrangements (using flowers sourced solely from her garden) and gardening books, jewellery, artisan paintings and prints, ceramics, gifts, vintage and 2nd hand designer label clothes and more.
Walking through the garden is free. It’s relaxing and naturalistic. Kelly has planted layers from large trees to ground covers and everything in-between, enticing the wildlife to take up residence. Encounters with birds and reptiles, insect pollinators, amphibians and mammals are common.
Kelly welcomes you to her Eden. Look around. Maybe buy some plants to grow in your own backyard?
And maybe, collectively, we can start bringing the wild back?
Their Haven.
Phoenix Rising Flowers is located at ‘Lydney Park’ on Bukkulla Road in Ashford in North West NSW, a working Angus cattle farm set on the Severn River. Kelly and her husband Kelvin bought the farm with the objective to connect the house garden to the river, thus allowing a wildlife corridor between both areas. They started with a barren paddock in the middle of a drought, today it is a haven for wildlife.
The Nursery.
Kelvin and Kelly's farm specialises in Australian native plants, and cut flowers. Expect all manner of Western Australian natives, South African proteas and the odd New Zealand quirk.
Kelly grows many rare and endangered plants in her garden and sells high quality native plants sourced from David and Sarah Caldwell of Mole Station Nursery, near Tenterfield NSW.
Flora & Fauna.
Our Plants.
The oldest plants in the garden are the remnant Eucalyptus albens (white box) and endemic plants such as Cassinia laevis (cough bush, dead finish, curry bush or rosemary bush). By adding fauna attracting plants in a layered effect, smaller and vulnerable creatures are more protected from predation. The combination of plants provide ample food and nesting sites for different species. Water is also key. Numerous watering spots have been placed throughout the garden to enable the animals to be self-sufficient.
Come and see for yourself.
BE the difference.
Start wilding up your ground now.
