I love walking - not specifically for the exercise (although of course, that's a bonus) but rather to have a good stickybeak at other people's gardens. If the gardener is present, that's even better. We might have a chat and perhaps I'll score a cutting or three (either that or perhaps they think I'm some sort of loitering neighbourhood weirdo ;) Occasionally, I get lucky and stumble upon a jaw-dropping garden I haven't encountered before. This was one such garden, seen on a beachside walk, far away from where I live: The amazing cascading bronze-tinged foliage plant is Casuarina glauca 'Cousin It' (not to be confused with Acacia cognata 'Mini Cog' - sold under the name 'Cousin Itt' in the US). The silver plant behind is cushion bush Leucophyta brownii . Purple fountain grass, Pennisetum advena 'Rubrum' is planted at the bottom of the retaining wall, with our Australian native tuckeroo Cupaniopsis anarcardiodes and variegat...