Essential Japanese Maple Care Guide for Australian Gardens
Japanese maples reward the right position. How to pick a variety, find a sheltered spot with dappled light, and plant into moist, free-draining soil.
Care Guide
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for care guide in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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White Flowering Plants for Australian Gardens
A white garden reads as calm and lifts at dusk. Eight reliable white flowering plants for Australian conditions, compared by flowering season, mature size and climate zone.
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Leaf Burn in Australian Gardens: Causes and Fixes
A single hot northerly can scorch a plant that looked perfect the evening before. Here is how to read the damage and prevent the next round.
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Weeping Lilly Pilly: Hedging, Growth Rate and Care
The lilly pilly psyllid does not disfigure. How to space it, clip it, and keep the base from going bare.
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Comprehensive Blueberry Ash Tree Guide for Australian Gardeners
Fringed bell flowers, blue berries and birds all year. Where blueberry ash grows best in Australia and how to keep it healthy.
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Cascade Lilly Pilly: The One That Actually Flowers
Most lilly pillies are grown as green screening. Cascade is the one you plant for the flowers, if you prune it correctly.
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Eumundi Quandong Care Guide
Elaeocarpus eumundi is a glossy-leaved native screen tree for subtropical gardens. Where to plant it, the soil it prefers and how often it needs watering.
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Border Brilliance: Low-Growing Plant Ideas
A defined border does more than tidy a garden, it suppresses weeds and guides the eye. Flowering annuals, hardy perennials and evergreens that stay low.
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Top Agave Varieties for Your Garden
Sculptural, drought-hardy and almost indestructible in a sunny spot - four agave varieties worth planting, and the sharp drainage every one of them insists on.
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Growing Ixora in Australia: Varieties and Care
Ixora flowers for months in warm Australian gardens and clips into a neat low hedge. It is fussy about one thing only: soil pH.
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Alstonville Tibouchina: Autumn Purple and How to Get It
For a few weeks each autumn the whole canopy turns purple. The two things that decide whether yours does.
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Mock Orange (Murraya) Care: Hedging, Pruning and Varieties
The closest thing to a foolproof formal hedge in warm Australian climates, with two caveats worth knowing first.
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Christmas Tree Care in Australia: Living and Potted Trees
A living Christmas tree can last for years instead of weeks. Pot size, light, watering through a hot December indoors, and how to move it back outside in January without...
