Find the garden beside Seaview Community Kindergarten at 71 Broome Street, near Jarrad Street. Approach from Broome Street and follow the garden signs.
In 1983, naturalist Robert Powell recorded 37 local native plant species here. When Cottesloe Coastcare began working on the site in 2006, 30 were still present despite heavy weed invasion, and eight survived as fewer than six individual plants. Restoration has included removing invasive Victorian tea tree and replanting with material propagated from the site.
Among the plants to look for are yellow leschenaultia, coastal sedge and yellow autumn lily, all recorded by Coastcare as occurring nowhere else in Cottesloe. The old pre-European grass trees provide food and habitat for insects and birds, while dense shrubs shelter honeyeaters, scrubwrens and fairy-wrens. Pink fairy orchids have also been recorded flowering here.
Enter from Broome Street beside Seaview Kindergarten and keep to the available paths. Many of the garden's most interesting plants are small and easy to overlook, so this is a place for a slow wander rather than a quick glance. Leave flowers, seed and limestone undisturbed so this little pocket of original Cott can keep recovering.