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.
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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Planning Your Coastal Feature Garden
Salt spray, sandy soil and relentless sun rule out most plants. How to plan a coastal garden around the ones that thrive, and the materials that suit it.
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Cordyline Guide: The Three Types and Which One You Need
Three very different plants sold under one name. Which survives frost, which burns in sun, and which is native to Australia.
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Using Elaeocarpus Eumundi for Tall Screen Trees
Eumundi Quandong reaches about 10 metres with a narrow upright habit and dense glossy foliage, giving year-round screening without taking up much width.
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Planting and Care Basics: Success with Your New Garden Plants
Getting a new plant into the ground properly matters more than anything you do later. Soil prep, hole depth, backfilling, watering in and the first weeks of care.
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Science Behind Fertilisers: Guide to Feeding Your Garden
The N-P-K numbers on the bag stop being a mystery once you know what each nutrient does. A plain guide to choosing and applying fertiliser in the garden.
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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...
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Transplanting Trees and Shrubs: A Guide to a Healthy Landscape
Timing and root ball size decide whether a transplanted tree lives. When to lift, how to prepare the plant, and how to nurse it through transplant shock.
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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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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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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.
