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.
Garden Design
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for garden design in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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Ornamental Grasses for Australian Gardens
Mature height, sun and frost tolerance for eight ornamental grasses and strappy plants, plus the two things guides leave out: plants per square metre for mass planting, and when to...
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Signs Your Plant Needs More Sun: When to Move
Plants tell you when the light is wrong. Pale leaves, leggy stems and no flowers are the early signs, and moving the pot a metre is often enough to fix...
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Variegated Plants for Australian Gardens
Variegated foliage lifts a shaded corner all year round. It also behaves differently under Australian sun, and that decides where it can go.
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Creating Living Art with Plants: Your Ultimate Home Guide
Plants can be arranged as artwork rather than decoration. Choosing species for texture and colour, then designing vertical pieces that keep growing and changing.
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The Fascinating Journey: The History of Iconic Plants
From barley in Mesopotamia to the sacred lotus and the Mediterranean olive, the plants that shaped human culture, medicine and mythology.
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Understanding Tree Maturity: When Is a Tree Considered Mature?
Maturity is not a single birthday. The signs that mark each stage of a tree’s life, from first leaves to thickened bark and a full canopy.
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Plant Gifts for Christmas: Australian Gift Ideas
A plant is the rare Christmas gift still alive next December. Ideas sorted by budget and by recipient, including what to send someone who kills everything, and when to order...
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Border Brilliance: Low-Growing Plant Ideas
A defined border does more than tidy a garden, it suppresses weeds and guides the eye. Flowering annuals, hardy perennials and evergreens that stay low.
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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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Understanding Windburn on Plants: Causes & Symptoms
Learning how to prevent and treat windburn on plants is crucial for garden health. Understanding its causes can help protect even the most delicate foliage.
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Ripple Jade Care Guide: Crassula arborescens undulatifolia in Australia
Crassula arborescens undulatifolia, the ripple jade, is a slow, sculptural succulent with wavy blue-grey leaves. Light, seasonal watering, propagation and the rot risk in a humid Australian summer.
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The unique Queensland bottle tree species
Brachychiton rupestris stores water in its swollen trunk, which is how it shrugs off drought. Its origin, growth habit and spring bell flowers.
