Metrosideros Care Guide: The New Zealand Christmas Bush
Metrosideros flowers scarlet at Christmas and shrugs off salt and wind. Here is how to choose between the tree forms and the compact hybrids, and how to keep both healthy.
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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Hellebore Care Guide: Growing the Winter Rose
Winter roses flower in shade from May to September. Which types suit your climate, where to plant them, and the one annual pruning job that matters.
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Water Gum (Tristaniopsis 'Luscious') Care Guide
The default choice for driveways and narrow front gardens. How big Luscious really gets, how far apart to space it, and the two summers that decide everything.
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Nandina Care Guide: Growing Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina is not a bamboo, does not run, and colours scarlet through the cold months. A guide to the dwarf cultivars and the one pruning job that matters.
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August Garden Checklist for Australian Gardens
August is the last quiet month before bud burst. Here are the pruning, feeding, mulching and planting jobs worth doing now, sorted by climate zone.
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Flowering Gum (Corymbia) Care Guide
Flowering gums put on the loudest summer display of any Australian tree. The secret is a grafted cultivar and sharp drainage, especially east of the Nullarbor.
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Indian Hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis) Care Guide
Indian hawthorn flowers in late winter, handles salt wind and heat, and asks for almost nothing. Here is how to pick the right cultivar for the height you want.
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Viburnum Care Guide: Fast Privacy Hedges for Australian Gardens
If you want privacy this year rather than next decade, sweet viburnum is the hedge that gets you there, with soft glossy leaves instead of a hard formal wall.
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Tuckeroo Care Guide: Australia's Toughest Coastal Shade Tree
Salt wind, sandy soil, blazing sun: the conditions that kill most trees are exactly where the native tuckeroo does its best work.
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Philodendron Care Guide: Lush, Forgiving and Very Hard to Kill
If you want a jungle without the maintenance, start with philodendrons. Bright indirect light and a light hand with water is most of the job.
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Ornamental Pear Care Guide: Growing Pyrus calleryana in Australia
White spring blossom, glossy summer leaves and blazing autumn colour on a tree tough enough for car parks: ornamental pears earn their popularity.
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Aloe Care Guide: Growing Flowering Aloes in Australia
Aloes flower in winter, drink almost nothing and feed every honeyeater in the street. The hardest part of growing them is finding something to do afterwards.
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Monstera Care Guide: How to Grow the Swiss Cheese Plant in Australia
Big, glossy, famously holey leaves and a forgiving nature: monstera is the indoor plant that makes beginners look like experts.
