Mondo Grass: Types, Spacing and Why It Is So Slow
It is not a grass, and it is slower than anyone expects. Those two facts explain most mondo disappointments.
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Tips for Choosing and Caring for Your Ficus Benjamina Plant
Twelve checks to make before you buy a weeping fig, from leaf colour to root firmness, plus what to do when it drops leaves in its first weeks at home.
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Where and How to Buy Tibouchina Lepidota Alstonville Plants?
Tibouchina Alstonville is worth hunting down for its deep purple flowers. What to check before you buy, and how to plant it once it arrives.
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Date Palms in Australia: Varieties and Care
The date palm most people picture is not the one most people should plant. Here is which Phoenix species suits which Australian garden.
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What Makes Red Yuccas So Popular?
Red yucca is a heat and drought-tolerant succulent with coral flower spikes, no sharp leaf tips and repeat flowering, making it easy in rock and pollinator gardens.
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A Guide to Gardening in Small Spaces
Small spaces are harsher than large ones here, because walls and paving store heat. Work out the aspect, go vertical, buy bigger pots than feel necessary, and choose one feature...
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Exotic Plants for the Front of the House
Which exotic plants work at the front of an Australian house, by climate and by aspect, with cold hardy substitutes for southern gardens and the rules on weeds, roots and...
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Indoor Plants for a Calmer Home
Greenery indoors makes a room feel calmer, provided the plants stay alive. What the research supports, which plants cope with Australian homes, where to put them and how to water...
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Top 10 Drought-Tolerant Plants for Your Brisbane Garden
Ten hardy plants that shrug off a Brisbane dry spell, from grevillea and banksia to agave, lavender and kangaroo paw, with tips for establishing each one.
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Low-Maintenance Landscape Plants for Busy Brisbane Homeowners
Five hardy performers for Brisbane gardens, from lomandra and westringia to wild iris, all drought-tolerant, pest-resistant and happy with one trim a year.
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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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Designing a Backyard Retreat for Australian Wildlife and People
A backyard oasis here succeeds or fails on shade and water. How to lay out the zones people use, wrap habitat planting around them, and bring in honeyeaters, wrens, lizards...
