When/how to plant flowers/flowering plants?

[Rivlas]

You can now get cyclamens that smell, as in nicely. They are a smaller version but still in the many colours.
They also grow easily from seed. I am waiting to see what colour mine will be.
The only thing with impatients is that they don't like the frost and in summer need watering a few times a week

[suse]

What about succulents? They look gorgeous, and are dry tolerant and almost bomb proof once established. Sedums make great ground cover, there are heaps of varieties, aloes and agaves are brilliant feature plants too, as are the various jade plants (crassula). Also really easy to grow and propagate are echeveria varieties (mostly rosettes), and kalanchoe pulima (often known as 'silver bush', it has silver grey foliage and pink trumpet like flowers). They do well in slightly sandy, well draining soils, but then, I've grown many succulents successfully since being in the tropics too.

[AngelPunks]

go to your local nursery - the one in or around your suburb and ask somebody there, they *should* know the area & what grows well.