Geisha Girl Duranta Care Guide
Violet flowers edged in white from October to May, on a hedge that grows half a metre a year. How to plant, prune and place a Geisha Girl duranta in...
Hedging
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for hedging in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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Tall Screening Plants to Block a Two-Storey Neighbour
Blocking a first-floor window takes four to eight metres of dense foliage in the right place, not just fast growth. The species that get there, and the spacing that works.
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Port Wine Magnolia (Michelia) Care Guide
Michelia figo flowers smell like ripe fruit and the shrub clips into a dense evergreen hedge. Where it grows in Australia, how to plant it and when to prune.
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Metrosideros Care Guide: The New Zealand Christmas Bush
Metrosideros flowers scarlet at Christmas and shrugs off salt and wind. Here is how to choose between the tree forms and the compact hybrids, and how to keep both healthy.
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Viburnum Care Guide: Fast Privacy Hedges for Australian Gardens
If you want privacy this year rather than next decade, sweet viburnum is the hedge that gets you there, with soft glossy leaves instead of a hard formal wall.
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Gardenia Care Guide: How to Grow Perfumed Gardenias in Australia
Glossy leaves, cream flowers and a perfume that carries across the whole garden: gardenias reward a little routine care with months of scent.
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Camellia Care Guide: Sasanqua and Japonica Explained
Camellias own the cool season garden. Learn the crucial difference between sasanqua and japonica types, and how to keep both covered in flowers.
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Photinia Care Guide: Growing Red Robin and Friends in Australia
Every trim triggers a flush of brilliant red new growth: photinia is the hedge that rewards you for cutting it, and it grows almost anywhere.
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English Box and Buxus Care Guide: The Classic Formal Hedge
Four hundred years of formal gardens rest on one small shrub. Buxus is slow, dense and utterly reliable, if you pick the right species for your climate.
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Pittosporum Care Guide: Fast Screening Hedges for Australian Gardens
Small shimmering leaves on near black stems, a metre of growth a year and a haircut twice annually: pittosporum is privacy in a hurry.
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Westringia Care Guide: Growing Coastal Rosemary Anywhere in Australia
Salt wind, drought, frost and neglect: coastal rosemary shrugs off all four, then flowers most of the year anyway. This is the native hedge for hard places.
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Lilly Pilly Resilience vs. The Rest: An Expert's Guide to Choosing Your Perfect Hedge
Resilience, Select, Hinterland Gold and Goodbye Neighbours compared side by side on psyllid resistance, growth rate, foliage density and pruning workload.
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How to Plant and Prune a Lilly Pilly Resilience Hedge
The practical version: spacing, hole prep, watering schedule, and the one pruning rule that decides whether the base stays dense.
