The Perfect Edging Plants: Landscape Your Perfect Garden
A crisp edge makes a garden look considered. How to choose edging plants that suit your climate and soil, from formal box to fragrant creeping thyme.
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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How to Avoid Weeds in Your Garden: Top Tips
Pulling weeds is the last resort. Understanding their lifecycles, planting dense ground covers and mulching properly keeps them out to begin with.
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Pruning for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Get Started
Three basic cuts cover most garden pruning. What each one does, when to make it, and why sharp clean secateurs matter more than confidence.
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Watering 101: A Guide to Maintaining Thriving Gardens
Watering well is about depth and timing, not a fixed routine. When to water, how to spot over and underwatering, and why deep roots come from deep soaking.
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Cousin It Groundcover: An Australian Planting Guide
Cousin It softens retaining walls and covers slopes that cannot be mown. It is also slower to establish than most people expect.
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Why 5 reasons your plant isn't blooming could surprise you
Green and healthy but stubbornly flowerless? Five reasons plants withhold their blooms, from too little light to a prune that cut off next season buds.
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Agapanthus: Choosing, Planting and Keeping It in Flower
Spherical blue and white blooms on tall stems make agapanthus a reliable performer. Meet the varieties, from dwarf Peter Pan to the near-black Black Pantha.
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Lilly Pilly Care Guide: Choosing, Planting and Pruning
Australia's default hedge, sold under three botanical names in forty cultivars. How to pick the right one before you plant a whole boundary.
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Growing 'Diamonds in the Dark' Plants: Tips and Tricks
Near-black foliage that makes pink and red summer flowers look twice as bright. What Diamonds in the Dark crepe myrtles need in sun, soil and water to perform.
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Discover the Top Plants for Urban Gardeners 2025
City gardens live in pots, on balconies and in whatever light the building allows. The hardy perennials, succulents and air purifiers that handle those conditions.
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Transform Waste: 5 Everyday Household Items to Use as Fertiliser
Kitchen scraps you already throw out can feed the garden. Coffee grounds, eggshells, banana peels and more, and what each one adds back to your soil.
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Discover the Secret to Long Lasting Blooms in Your Garden
Flowers that keep going are made in the soil, not at the nursery. Choose for your climate zone, stagger the bloom times and the garden holds colour for months.
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White Hydrangeas: A Perfect Addition to Your Garden
Morning sun, afternoon shade and a metre of breathing room between plants. How to choose between Annabelle, Incrediball and Limelight, and keep them flowering.
