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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Garden Plants: Enhancing Your Outdoor Space
A short list of plants that forgive a beginner and still look good, sorted by what you want from them, with the Australian climate table that decides what actually performs.
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Evergreen Trees for Year-Round Foliage in Australian Gardens
Most Australian native trees are evergreen, so a garden built on them never goes bare. The best evergreens by climate and job, why evergreen does not mean no leaf drop,...
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Growing Olive Trees in Australia: Varieties and Care
Olives handle heat, drought and coastal wind, and outlive the gardener who plants them. Here is which variety suits your climate and how to grow it.
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Liriope Muscari: How to Grow and Care for Lilyturf
Liriope is an evergreen strappy plant with purple flower spikes that grows in dry shade and in full sun. Varieties, spacing, where it grows in Australia, how it differs from...
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Wisteria in Australia: Growing It, and the Native Alternative
Wisteria is not an Australian native, and in Brisbane it barely flowers. What to know before planting, and the native that does the same job.
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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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Viburnum Odoratissimum: A Screening Plant Worth Knowing
A fast, dense evergreen with glossy leaves, scented white spring flowers and red summer berries. How to use viburnum odoratissimum as a hedge, screen or feature plant.
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Foxtail Palm: Growing Australia's Best Feature Palm
Self-cleaning, fast growing and native to far north Queensland. Everything you need to know about growing foxtail palms in an Australian garden.
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Star Jasmine: Climber, Groundcover and Green Wall
The most useful climber sold in Australia, because it is really three plants. Climb it, spread it flat, or clip it into a wall.
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Conifers in Australia: Natives, Hedges and Cypress Canker
The bunya drops ten-kilogram cones and the Wollemi was found alive in 1994. Australia's native conifers, and what to plant in a garden.
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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.
