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.
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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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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Queensland Bottle Tree: Growing Brachychiton rupestris
The Queensland bottle tree stores water in a swollen trunk and takes drought and frost. Where it grows, how big it gets, how to plant and look after it, and...
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Replacing Your Lawn with Native Plants
Swapping lawn for natives cuts mowing and watering and brings birds in. How to kill the grass without herbicide, what to plant in its place, and how to get it...
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Cordyline Guide: The Three Types and Which One You Need
Three very different plants sold under one name. Which survives frost, which burns in sun, and which is native to Australia.
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Architectural Plants for Low Maintenance Gardens
Architectural planting relies on strong, repeated form, and the plants that hold that form are mostly the ones built for heat and drought. Which to use where, why drainage decides...
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Exotic Plants for the Front of the House
Which exotic plants work at the front of an Australian house, by climate and by aspect, with cold hardy substitutes for southern gardens and the rules on weeds, roots and...
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Low-Maintenance Landscape Plants for Busy Brisbane Homeowners
Five hardy performers for Brisbane gardens, from lomandra and westringia to wild iris, all drought-tolerant, pest-resistant and happy with one trim a year.
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Transplanting Trees and Shrubs: A Guide to a Healthy Landscape
Timing and root ball size decide whether a transplanted tree lives. When to lift, how to prepare the plant, and how to nurse it through transplant shock.
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Liriope Muscari: How to Grow and Care for Lilyturf
Liriope is an evergreen strappy plant with purple flower spikes that grows in dry shade and in full sun. Varieties, spacing, where it grows in Australia, how it differs from...
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Viburnum Odoratissimum: A Screening Plant Worth Knowing
A fast, dense evergreen with glossy leaves, scented white spring flowers and red summer berries. How to use viburnum odoratissimum as a hedge, screen or feature plant.
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Tuckeroo Tree: Enhancing Landscape Design with Versatility
A salt and wind tolerant Australian native that needs almost no care once established. Where the tuckeroo works best, and where it does not.
