Evergreen Trees for Year-Round Foliage in Australian Gardens
Most Australian native trees are evergreen, so a garden built on them never goes bare. The best evergreens by climate and job, why evergreen does not mean no leaf drop,...
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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Growing Olive Trees in Australia: Varieties and Care
Olives handle heat, drought and coastal wind, and outlive the gardener who plants them. Here is which variety suits your climate and how to grow it.
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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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Lomandra Care Guide: Varieties, Planting and Cutting Back
Australia's most planted native, and the cultivar choice most people get wrong. How to pick, plant and maintain lomandra.
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Foxtail Palm: Growing Australia's Best Feature Palm
Self-cleaning, fast growing and native to far north Queensland. Everything you need to know about growing foxtail palms in an Australian garden.
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Star Jasmine: Climber, Groundcover and Green Wall
The most useful climber sold in Australia, because it is really three plants. Climb it, spread it flat, or clip it into a wall.
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Conifers in Australia: Natives, Hedges and Cypress Canker
The bunya drops ten-kilogram cones and the Wollemi was found alive in 1994. Australia's native conifers, and what to plant in a garden.
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Philodendron Xanadu: Growing It in Australian Gardens
The shade filler behind half the courtyards in Brisbane and Sydney. How big it gets, where it burns, and what to plant with it.
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White Crepe Myrtle 'Natchez': Four Seasons of Interest
Flowers all summer, colours in autumn, then reveals cinnamon bark. And the pruning habit that ruins it.
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Ornamental Pear Trees: The 10 Best Varieties Compared
The ten cultivars sold in Australia are genuinely different trees. Here is how they compare on size, shape and autumn colour.
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Gardenia Care: Fixing Yellow Leaves and Bud Drop
The difference between a gardenia that perfumes a courtyard and one that sulks for years is soil chemistry, not care.
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Giant Bird of Paradise in Australia: Growing Strelitzia Nicolai
Strelitzia nicolai gives instant tropical structure, and it is the plant behind the resort look. It also gets far bigger than most people expect.
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Teddy Bear Magnolia: How to Grow and Care for Them
The fuzzy brown leaf undersides give this compact Southern magnolia its name. How to plant it, what soil pH it wants, and how to water and prune it through the...
