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.
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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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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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.
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Discover Everything About Camellia Bushes
Camellias flower when little else does, from autumn right through to spring. A guide to the main varieties and the soil, light and shelter each one needs.
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Spring Planting Guide: Top Choices
Warm soil and longer days make spring the easiest time to plant. Here are the annuals, perennials, vegetables and natives that establish fastest.
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Crafting elegance: using plants to make a statement entrance
First impressions form in seconds. How to use planters, layered foliage and colour at an entrance so the front door feels considered rather than bare.
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Golden Penda: Australia's Best Gold Flowering Tree
An evergreen native that flowers gold, suits a suburban block, and fills with lorikeets when it blooms.
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Jacaranda Trees in Australia: Planting and Care
For a few weeks each spring the jacaranda turns whole Australian streets purple. Here is where one belongs and what to expect through the year.
