Acacia Care Guide: How to Grow Wattles in Australia
Fast growing, drought tough and dressed in gold every winter and spring, wattles are the easiest way to put an Australian signature on a garden.
Australian Natives
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for australian natives in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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Leptospermum Care Guide: Growing Tea Trees in Australian Gardens
From weeping groundcovers to lemon scented screens, tea trees are among the toughest flowering natives you can plant. Here is how to choose and grow them.
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Dianella Care Guide: Flax Lilies for Colour, Texture and Zero Fuss
Blue flowers, purple berries and foliage from silver to cherry-flushed green. Dianella is the strappy native that brings actual colour to low maintenance.
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Kangaroo Paw Care Guide: Growing Australia's Most Distinctive Flower
Velvet flowers, honeyeaters on tap and months of colour. Kangaroo paws are easy once you learn the one brutal haircut they need each year.
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Banksia Care Guide: Icons of the Australian Bush for Your Garden
Nothing says Australian garden like a banksia candle covered in honeyeaters. Pick the right species for your soil and the rest is nearly effortless.
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Grevillea Care Guide: Flowers, Feeding and the Phosphorus Rule
No other native genus feeds as many birds or flowers for as many months. From knee high ramblers to 20m silky oaks, there is a grevillea for every job.
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Westringia Care Guide: Growing Coastal Rosemary Anywhere in Australia
Salt wind, drought, frost and neglect: coastal rosemary shrugs off all four, then flowers most of the year anyway. This is the native hedge for hard places.
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Discover Native Plants With Yellow Flowers for Your Garden
Wattle, banksia, grevillea, hibbertia and more, grouped into trees, shrubs and groundcovers, with the birds and pollinators each one brings to the garden.
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Discover Native Plants With Red Flowers for Your Garden
Grevillea 'Robyn Gordon', bottlebrush, flowering gum and kangaroo paw all bring hot red into the garden, and every one of them pulls honeyeaters in with it.
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Top Bird-Attracting Native Plants for Australian Gardens
Grevillea, bottlebrush, banksia and hakea bring honeyeaters and lorikeets in. Layer them with dense shrubs for shelter and the birds stay rather than visit.
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The Low-Maintenance Native Garden: A Step-by-Step Australian Guide
Native gardens are cheap to run once established, but only if the groundwork is right. This is the full sequence, from design to your first year of watering.
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Native vs Exotic Plants: Understanding the Differences
Native does not always mean low water, and exotic does not always mean trouble. What the words mean in an Australian garden, where each kind earns its place, and how...
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Replacing Your Lawn with Native Plants
Swapping lawn for natives cuts mowing and watering and brings birds in. How to kill the grass without herbicide, what to plant in its place, and how to get it...
