About Angus

Angus Stewart is a multi-award winning professional horticulturist with over 40 years experience working with ornamental plants.  Angus is highly respected for his innovative and extensive breeding of Australian natives, in particular kangaroo paws, with his ‘Tall and Tough’ varieties being a staple in garden retail outlets all over Australia.  Angus has breed a wide range of Australian natives for his own Gardening with Angus® range such as bottlebrush, everlasting daisy and eucalypts as well as numerous plants which are now regarded as staples in the nursery, cut flower and landscape industry.
 
Many Australian gardeners will also know Angus through his horticultural media work. For 11 years he was the NSW presenter on the Gardening Australia TV show, he has authored 7 gardening books with Creating an Australian Garden and The Waterwise Australian Native Garden both winning the prestigious Horticultural Media Association of Australia book awards. He has authored countless magazine and newspaper articles and writes regularly for Gardening Australia Magazine, Good Organic Gardener and the Sunday Tasmanian. Angus makes regular appearances on ABC gardening programs across Australia, community radio programs and podcasts.
 
In addition to his consultancy roles in national and international programs, Angus is the proud patron of the Cranbourne Friends, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and member of a wide range of horticultural recreational and professional organisations including the International Plant Propagators Society (IPPS).  In 2025 Angus enjoyed working with students affiliated with the Nursery and Garden Industry Victoria (NGIV) on their display gardens at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) Avenue of Achievable Gardens.
 
Angus lives and works in paradise on the Tasman Peninsula in Australia’s southern most state, where he has a 15 hectare farm brimming with wildlife such as Tasmanian devils, echidnas, long nosed potoroos, wallabies, wombats and has lost count of the number of bird species that visit including the rare and endangered swift parrot. 
 
The Gardening with Angus® website is committed to spreading Angus’s love of nature and Australian plants in ways that help gardeners and professional horticulturists choose the very best native plant options for their projects.