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.
Seasonal Care
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for seasonal care in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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How to Prepare Your Garden for Storm Season
Before the first storms hit, thin your tree canopies, reinforce stakes, clear drainage and move pots undercover. A checklist for an Australian storm season.
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The Best Time to Plant a Tree in Australia: A Guide
Autumn beats spring across most of Australia because the tree gets a whole cool season to grow roots before its first summer. The windows by climate zone, the special cases...
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Diamonds in the Dark Crepe Myrtle: Growing and Care
Diamonds in the Dark are compact crepe myrtles with near black leaves and summer flowers. Where they grow in Australia, why full sun matters, how to prune them, and how...
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Why Plants Grow Better in Some Seasons Than Others
Day length, temperature, chill and soil moisture set a plant's calendar, and the calendar differs between Darwin and Hobart. What each cue does, the growing seasons by region, and the...
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White Hydrangeas: Varieties, Growing and Pruning
White hydrangeas light up a shaded corner and need no soil management for colour. The types compared, where they grow in Australia, how to water them, and when to prune...
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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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Blueberry Ash Tree Guide for Australian Gardens
Blueberry ash is a narrow, evergreen native tree with fringed flowers and blue berries that birds eat. Where it grows in Australia, how big it gets, how to plant it...
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How to Propagate Plants: Cuttings, Division, Layering and Seed
How to propagate plants from cuttings, division, layering and seed, with the right timing for Australian seasons, the special needs of native plants, and when buying is the better choice.
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Creative Ideas for Garden Sitting Spaces
A garden seat gets used when it has shade, shelter and something worth looking at. How to site a sitting space, shade and screen it with plants, and what to...
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Border Plants: Low Growing Plants for Garden Edges
A border is one plant repeated along the front of a bed. Which low plants suit sun, shade, paving and the coast in Australia, how far apart to plant them,...
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Alstonville Tibouchina: Autumn Purple and How to Get It
For a few weeks each autumn the whole canopy turns purple. The two things that decide whether yours does.
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Spice Up Your Front Yard
Colourful perennials, an evergreen backbone and native flowering shrubs: a simple planting formula that lifts both a front yard and a home’s value.
