Orange Tree Care Guide: Growing Sweet Oranges in Australia
A backyard orange tree is a fifty year investment that pays out every winter in fruit sweeter than anything in the shops. Here is how to grow one properly.
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Jacaranda Care Guide: Growing the Purple Icon of Australian Spring
For a few weeks each spring, jacarandas turn whole suburbs purple. Here is how to plant one properly and what to expect while you wait for the show.
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Lime Tree Care Guide: Growing Limes in Australia
A single well fed lime tree keeps a household in gin garnishes and Thai curries for decades. Here is how to choose one and keep it thriving.
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Small Courtyard Garden Ideas: Big Impact in Tight Spaces
A courtyard is not a small garden problem, it is a design opportunity where every single plant gets to matter.
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Hibiscus Care Guide: Growing Hibiscus in Australian Gardens
Big silky flowers, glossy leaves and months of colour: hibiscus deliver the tropics on demand, provided you feed them and keep the frost off.
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Gardenia Care Guide: How to Grow Perfumed Gardenias in Australia
Glossy leaves, cream flowers and a perfume that carries across the whole garden: gardenias reward a little routine care with months of scent.
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Acacia Care Guide: How to Grow Wattles in Australia
Fast growing, drought tough and dressed in gold every winter and spring, wattles are the easiest way to put an Australian signature on a garden.
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Leptospermum Care Guide: Growing Tea Trees in Australian Gardens
From weeping groundcovers to lemon scented screens, tea trees are among the toughest flowering natives you can plant. Here is how to choose and grow them.
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Crepe Myrtle Care Guide: Planting, Pruning and the Best Varieties
Crepe myrtles deliver months of summer flowers, sculptural bark and brilliant autumn colour. Here is how to choose and care for them, pruning included.
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Dianella Care Guide: Flax Lilies for Colour, Texture and Zero Fuss
Blue flowers, purple berries and foliage from silver to cherry-flushed green. Dianella is the strappy native that brings actual colour to low maintenance.
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Frangipani Care Guide: Growing Plumeria in Australia
Nothing says an Australian summer like frangipani perfume. Learn how to plant, feed and overwinter Plumeria, and which varieties suit your climate.
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Kangaroo Paw Care Guide: Growing Australia's Most Distinctive Flower
Velvet flowers, honeyeaters on tap and months of colour. Kangaroo paws are easy once you learn the one brutal haircut they need each year.
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Fig and Ficus Care Guide: From Fiddle Leaf to Edible Figs
The ficus family covers the most loved indoor plant in Australia, the best wall covering climber, and backyard fruit. Here is how to grow each of them well.
