How to Repot Your Plants Like a Pro
Understanding how to repot your plants correctly will help them flourish, showing signs such as roots emerging from drainage holes. Enjoy healthier plants!
Pots & Small Spaces
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for pots & small spaces in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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Best Low Light Plants for Home
What "low light" really means in an Australian home, the seven plants that cope with it, and the watering and placement rules that stop them slowly declining.
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Growing Olive Trees in Pots: An Australian Guide
Olives are one of the few Mediterranean trees that genuinely thrive in a pot. Here is how to keep one healthy on an Australian patio or balcony.
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Entrance Plants: Making a Statement at the Front Door
First impressions form in seconds. How to use planters, layered foliage and colour at an entrance so the front door feels considered rather than bare.
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The best feature tree for low and high sun spots
One entry gets three hours of morning light, another bakes all afternoon. Which feature trees suit each, and what makes a tree shade-tolerant or sun-hardy.
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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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Elephant Ear Plants in Australia: Varieties and Care
Elephant ears give you the biggest leaf you can grow, and one of them is native to Australian rainforest. Here is which variety suits where.
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A Guide to Gardening in Small Spaces
Small spaces are harsher than large ones here, because walls and paving store heat. Work out the aspect, go vertical, buy bigger pots than feel necessary, and choose one feature...
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Maximizing Space: How to Create a Thriving Vertical Garden
Grow up instead of out. How to plan a vertical garden on a wall, fence or balcony, choose the right plants and set up watering that actually keeps them alive.
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Indoor Exotic Plants Guide: Growing Tropical Foliage at Home
Australia is unusually well placed for indoor tropicals. Which exotics suit each light band, the traps that differ from overseas advice (UV through glass, air conditioning, aspect), and the care...
