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 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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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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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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Versatile Plants for Australian Gardens
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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How to Identify and Treat Common Plant Pests and Diseases in Australia
Most garden damage in Australia is not a pest at all, so rule out sun, wind, salt and root rot first. Then the common insects and diseases by symptom, the...
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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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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.
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All About Callistemon: The Bottlebrush Beauty
Admired for its vibrant floral display, callistemon thrives in Australia. It not only adds beauty to gardens but also supports local wildlife.
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Weeping Mulberry: A Unique Garden Feature
Those cascading branches are the whole point. Plant a weeping mulberry in autumn, keep it out of the wind, and it becomes the sculpture the garden was missing.
