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.
Lilly Pilly
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for lilly pilly in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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The Best Plants to Soften Fences and Retaining Walls
Lilly pilly, viburnum, murraya and star jasmine soften hard boundaries. Which plants suit narrow beds, which cascade over retaining walls and which climb.
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Lilly Pilly Resilience Problems: Your Troubleshooting Guide
Yellow leaves, brown papery patches or a black sooty film on a Syzygium australe 'Resilience' hedge, diagnosed by symptom, with the treatment for each cause.
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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.
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Lilly Pilly Resilience: The Definitive Guide to Psyllid Resistance
Psyllid pimples are a lilly pilly problem you can plant your way out of. Why Syzygium 'Resilience' resists them, how fast it grows and how far apart to space it.
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Lilly Pilly Resilience Growth Rate: Your Guide to a Fast Privacy Screen
One to 1.5 metres in the first 12 to 18 months, and psyllid resistant with it. What Resilience actually does, and the spacing that gets you a solid screen.
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How to Create a Great Hedge (And Keep It Looking Sharp)
Lilly pilly, viburnum, murraya, photinia or buxus, and the spacing that decides whether they knit together. Planting in a trench, then keeping it sharp.
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Alternative Hedging Plants
Sweet Viburnum, Callistemon 'Slim', Westringia, Escallonia and more: ten hedging plants with heights and growth rates, for gardeners tired of the usual three.
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Lilly Pilly Care Guide: Choosing, Planting and Pruning
Australia's default hedge, sold under three botanical names in forty cultivars. How to pick the right one before you plant a whole boundary.
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Weeping Lilly Pilly: Hedging, Growth Rate and Care
The lilly pilly psyllid does not disfigure. How to space it, clip it, and keep the base from going bare.
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Cascade Lilly Pilly: The One That Actually Flowers
Most lilly pillies are grown as green screening. Cascade is the one you plant for the flowers, if you prune it correctly.
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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.
