Top Agave Varieties for Your Garden
Sculptural, drought-hardy and almost indestructible in a sunny spot - four agave varieties worth planting, and the sharp drainage every one of them insists on.
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Growing Ixora in Australia: Varieties and Care
Ixora flowers for months in warm Australian gardens and clips into a neat low hedge. It is fussy about one thing only: soil pH.
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Creating Tranquility: A Colour Filled Garden Guide
A colourful garden is planned, not accidental. Choosing a palette, grouping plants by shared needs, and using paths, structures and water to hold it together.
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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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Mock Orange (Murraya) Care: Hedging, Pruning and Varieties
The closest thing to a foolproof formal hedge in warm Australian climates, with two caveats worth knowing first.
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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.
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Understanding Windburn on Plants: Causes & Symptoms
Learning how to prevent and treat windburn on plants is crucial for garden health. Understanding its causes can help protect even the most delicate foliage.
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Christmas Tree Care in Australia: Living and Potted Trees
A living Christmas tree can last for years instead of weeks. Pot size, light, watering through a hot December indoors, and how to move it back outside in January without...
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Low-Maintenance Garden Ideas for Australian Gardens
A low-maintenance garden is a design decision, not a plant list. Six approaches that cut weekly work to near zero in Australian conditions, with a plant table and links to...
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Kidney Weed (Dichondra repens): Growing and Care Guide
Kidney weed is a native groundcover that makes a soft green carpet in shade, between pavers and in place of lawn. How to establish it, where it struggles, and how...
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Top Plants for Ground Cover: A Guide to Greenery
Transform your space with plants for ground cover offering elegant foliage that captivates both the aesthetic and practical. Like thyme, which thrives while sturdy surfaces endure.
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Ripple Jade Care Guide: Crassula arborescens undulatifolia in Australia
Crassula arborescens undulatifolia, the ripple jade, is a slow, sculptural succulent with wavy blue-grey leaves. Light, seasonal watering, propagation and the rot risk in a humid Australian summer.
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Climbing Fig Care: Green Walls, Clipping and the Catch
The plant behind almost every crisp green wall in Australia, and the thing it does at ten years old that nobody warns you about.
