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.
Resource Centre
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Comprehensive Blueberry Ash Tree Guide for Australian Gardeners
Fringed bell flowers, blue berries and birds all year. Where blueberry ash grows best in Australia and how to keep it healthy.
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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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Plant Gifts for Christmas: Australian Gift Ideas
A plant is the rare Christmas gift still alive next December. Ideas sorted by budget and by recipient, including what to send someone who kills everything, and when to order...
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How to Propergate: A Guide to Plant Success
Cuttings, layering, division or seed - each suits a different plant. A plain guide to propagating what you already grow instead of buying more.
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Eumundi Quandong Care Guide
Elaeocarpus eumundi is a glossy-leaved native screen tree for subtropical gardens. Where to plant it, the soil it prefers and how often it needs watering.
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Creative Ideas for Garden Sitting Spaces
A seat you actually sit in needs shade, a little screening and furniture that survives the weather. Here is how to carve a quiet corner out of the garden.
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Border Brilliance: Low-Growing Plant Ideas
A defined border does more than tidy a garden, it suppresses weeds and guides the eye. Flowering annuals, hardy perennials and evergreens that stay low.
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Your Guide to Versatile Plants!
Shade, full sun, privacy screening or pollinators: four jobs a garden needs done, and the plants that handle each one reliably in Australian conditions.
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Effective Tips on How to Identify and Treat Common Plant Pests and Diseases
Leaf curl, holes and sticky residue all mean something. What each symptom points to, and how to deal with the pest behind it before it spreads.
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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
Native plants, layered from groundcover to canopy, turn a backyard into somewhere birds actually stay. What to plant and how to keep food coming year-round.
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Balcony Plants for Australian Apartments: What Survives
A balcony is harsher than almost any garden bed. Why plants fail up there, and what genuinely copes.
