This month's visit was to the gardens of Elaine Roe and her neighbour Sheila Craig in Ocean Shores. Both gardens showed careful design of suburban blocks in a subtropical coastal area and made good use of borrowed landscapes over the golf course at the back of their blocks. Elaine used a variety of plants such as heliconia, strelitzia and cordylines to obtain a fairly densely planted effect at the rear of the block bounded by a wet area separating them from the Golf Course. Sheila' garden used a variety of natives (callistemon and grevillea) to cope with the wet conditions and give a more open effect.