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.
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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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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Blueberry Ash Tree Guide for Australian Gardens
Blueberry ash is a narrow, evergreen native tree with fringed flowers and blue berries that birds eat. Where it grows in Australia, how big it gets, how to plant it...
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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
Eumundi quandong is a narrow, glossy native rainforest tree used for tall screens. Where it grows, how to plant and space it, and how to water, feed and prune it.
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Border Plants: Low Growing Plants for Garden Edges
A border is one plant repeated along the front of a bed. Which low plants suit sun, shade, paving and the coast in Australia, how far apart to plant them,...
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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...
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Low-Maintenance Garden Ideas for Australian Gardens
A low-maintenance garden is a design decision, not a plant list. Six approaches that cut weekly work to near zero in Australian conditions, with a plant table and links to...
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Climbing Fig Care: Green Walls, Clipping and the Catch
The plant behind almost every crisp green wall in Australia, and the thing it does at ten years old that nobody warns you about.
