Cycad Care Guide: Growing Living Fossils in Australian Gardens
Cycads have survived 200 million years by being nearly impossible to kill. In the garden they trade speed for sculpture, and the trade is worth it.
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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Tree Fern Care Guide: Growing Cyathea cooperi in Australia
Nothing transforms a shaded corner like a tree fern. One trunk, a two metre canopy of lace, and suddenly the side passage is a rainforest gully.
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Blueberry Care Guide: How to Grow Blueberries in Australia
Blueberries are the highest value crop a home gardener can grow, and they thrive in Australia once you understand one thing: acid soil.
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Lomandra Care Guide: The Toughest Strappy Plant in Australia
There is a reason every landscape architect in the country specifies lomandra. It is the plant that keeps looking good after everyone stops trying.
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Orange Tree Care Guide: Growing Sweet Oranges in Australia
A backyard orange tree is a fifty year investment that pays out every winter in fruit sweeter than anything in the shops. Here is how to grow one properly.
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Jacaranda Care Guide: Growing the Purple Icon of Australian Spring
For a few weeks each spring, jacarandas turn whole suburbs purple. Here is how to plant one properly and what to expect while you wait for the show.
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Lime Tree Care Guide: Growing Limes in Australia
A single well fed lime tree keeps a household in gin garnishes and Thai curries for decades. Here is how to choose one and keep it thriving.
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Small Courtyard Garden Ideas: Big Impact in Tight Spaces
A courtyard is not a small garden problem, it is a design opportunity where every single plant gets to matter.
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Hibiscus Care Guide: Growing Hibiscus in Australian Gardens
Big silky flowers, glossy leaves and months of colour: hibiscus deliver the tropics on demand, provided you feed them and keep the frost off.
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Gardenia Care Guide: How to Grow Perfumed Gardenias in Australia
Glossy leaves, cream flowers and a perfume that carries across the whole garden: gardenias reward a little routine care with months of scent.
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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.
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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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Crepe Myrtle Care Guide: Planting, Pruning and the Best Varieties
Crepe myrtles deliver months of summer flowers, sculptural bark and brilliant autumn colour. Here is how to choose and care for them, pruning included.
