The Best Plants for Coastal Gardeners: Top Picks for 2025
Salt spray, sandy soil and constant wind rule out most plants. Coastal Banksia, Pigface and Kangaroo Paw are among the hardy picks that thrive by the sea.
Flowering
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for flowering 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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Your Guide to Versatile Plants!
Shade, full sun, privacy screening or pollinators: four jobs a garden needs done, and the plants that handle each one reliably in Australian conditions.
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Transform Your Balcony! Top Small Space Plants
A balcony has more growing room than it looks. Compact, hardy plants for pots, hanging baskets and corners, including which ones cope with limited sunlight.
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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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Creating Tranquility: A Colour Filled Garden Guide
A colourful garden is planned, not accidental. Choosing a palette, grouping plants by shared needs, and using paths, structures and water to hold it together.
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The Secrets to Growing Australia’s Purple Gem: Alstonville Tibouchina
Seven practical secrets for velvety purple blooms: the right sun, slightly acidic soil around pH 6.0 to 6.5, deep watering and pruning after autumn flowering.
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Care Guide: Mock Orange
Fragrant white blooms and an easy-going habit make mock orange a favourite. Here is the sun, soil, watering and pruning routine that keeps it flowering.
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Spice Up Your Front Yard
Colourful perennials, an evergreen backbone and native flowering shrubs: a simple planting formula that lifts both a front yard and a home’s value.
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Bougainvillea Care Tips: How to Keep Your Plant Thriving
Bougainvilleas need at least five hours of direct sun to flower well. Watering, pruning after bloom, feeding and how much frost they will take.
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Hydrangeas: Colour and Growth
Bigleaf hydrangeas turn blue in acid soil and pink in alkaline. How to shift the colour deliberately, where to plant them and when to prune.
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Add colour through plants in your backyard easily
Transform your space by adding colour through plants in your backyard, creating a visually engaging oasis. Learn to select and arrange flora for maximal beauty.
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Diverse Bromeliad Varieties: Discover Them All!
Rosettes, central cups and over 650 Tillandsia species alone. A run through the main bromeliad groups and how to tell them apart by leaf, flower and growth habit.
