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.
Pests & Problems
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for pests & problems in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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Spider Plant: Easy Houseplant Tips
Unlock the secrets to thriving with your spider plant in this guide. Easy tips ensure its lush growth, adding natural beauty and purified air to your home.
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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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Variegated Trach Jasmine: Easy Ground Cover for Any Garden
Transform your garden with the vibrant variegated trach jasmine for easy ground cover suitable for paths, borders, and slopes. Perfect for a lush, tidy look.
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Indoor Plant Tips for Beginners
The forgiving plants to start with, the three mistakes that kill most indoor plants, and the Australian light, air conditioning and pet facts most guides leave out.
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Steps to plan your garden
Where to start when you are staring at an empty yard: setting goals, choosing the position and getting the soil right before you buy a single plant.
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Pandanus in Australian Gardens: Species and Care
Nothing says Australian coastline like a pandanus. Here is which species suits your garden, and the coastal pest worth knowing about.
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Blue Chalksticks in Australia: Planting and Care
Blue chalksticks holds its colour through the worst of summer and needs almost no water. It has one weakness worth knowing before you plant it.
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Agave Garden Ideas: Choosing by Size, Spines and Position
Agaves suit Australia embarrassingly well. The real question is where to put them, because some are genuinely dangerous.
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Plant Identifier Apps: Which Work in Australia
The apps have improved, but they are trained on northern hemisphere plants. Which to use, and when a phone answer is not good enough.
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Plant Propagation in Australia: Seeds, Cuttings and Division
New plants for nothing, if you get the timing and the medium right. The windows for each method in Australian seasons, the smoke and heat treatments native seed needs, the...
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Shade Gardening in Australia: What to Plant Where
Shade is treated as a problem when it is usually an advantage. How to read the kind you have, and plant it properly.
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How to Plant a New Garden Bed: A Step-by-Step Australian Guide
The whole sequence for a new garden bed in Australia, in order: assess the site, prepare the soil, plant at the right depth and spacing, then get through the first...
