How to Avoid Weeds in Your Garden: Top Tips
Pulling weeds is the last resort. Understanding their lifecycles, planting dense ground covers and mulching properly keeps them out to begin with.
Soil & Fertiliser
Growing guides, planting advice and plant care for soil & fertiliser in Australian gardens, written by the team at Nursery Near Me.
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Benefits of Coffee Grounds in Plants: Unlock Magic
Most of what circulates about coffee grounds is wrong. They are close to neutral, mildly fertile and useful in the compost, and they damage Australian natives and crust the soil...
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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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Transform Waste: 5 Everyday Household Items to Use as Fertiliser
Coffee grounds, eggshells, banana peels, vegetable scraps and tea leaves can all go back into the garden. What each one really does, what is myth, and why composting them works...
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How to Get Flowers for Months: Long Flowering Plants and Care
A long flowering season comes from choosing plants that flower for months, staggering them across the year, and three habits: deadheading, pruning at the right time and feeding for flowers.
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Essential Japanese Maple Care Guide for Australian Gardens
Japanese maples reward the right position. How to pick a variety, find a sheltered spot with dappled light, and plant into moist, free-draining soil.
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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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Soil Types Explained: How to Identify and Improve Yours
Almost every persistent garden problem traces back to soil. How to identify yours in two minutes, and what to do about it.
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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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Eumundi Quandong Care Guide
Eumundi quandong is a narrow, glossy native rainforest tree used for tall screens. Where it grows, how to plant and space it, and how to water, feed and prune it.
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Embrace Green Gardening: Eco-Friendly Practices
Sustainable gardening in practice: native plants that need less water, compost and manure in place of synthetics, and mulch that can halve how often you water.
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Backyard Bird Paradise: Creating a Sanctuary
Why most suburbs are full of noisy miners and empty of fairy-wrens, and the planting that reverses it: shelter first, then nectar in every season, then water done safely.
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Pencil Pines in Australia: Varieties and Care
Pencil pines give you height without width, which is why they suit driveways and narrow boundaries. Here is how to plant and keep them.
