Cordyline Care Guide: Instant Tropical Colour for Australian Gardens
Nothing paints a garden tropical faster than cordyline foliage. The whole game is matching the right species to your climate and light.
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Banksia Care Guide: Icons of the Australian Bush for Your Garden
Nothing says Australian garden like a banksia candle covered in honeyeaters. Pick the right species for your soil and the rest is nearly effortless.
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Lemon Tree Care Guide: Growing Citrus in Australian Backyards
The backyard lemon is an Australian institution. Choose the right variety, plant it properly and feed it well, and one tree will supply the whole street.
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Avocado Tree Care Guide: From Hass to Homegrown in Australia
One healthy backyard avocado can out-produce your toast habit. The secret is drainage, drainage and drainage, plus a smart A and B variety pairing.
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Mango Tree Care Guide: Growing Your Own Kensington Pride at Home
A grafted mango can hand you buckets of fruit within four years. Here is how to choose between Bowen, Kensington Pride and King Thai, and keep the tree healthy.
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Azalea Care Guide: Growing the Great Australian Spring Show-Off
When an azalea flowers, it does not hold back. Here is how to give it the acidic soil, dappled light and light pruning it needs to repeat the show every...
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Camellia Care Guide: Sasanqua and Japonica Explained
Camellias own the cool season garden. Learn the crucial difference between sasanqua and japonica types, and how to keep both covered in flowers.
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Callistemon Care Guide: Growing Bottlebrush in Every Australian Garden
Wet feet, drought, frost, nature strip abuse: bottlebrush take it all and still put on one of the loudest flower shows in the native garden.
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Rosemary Care Guide: Growing a Mediterranean Herb in Australia
Sun, sharp drainage and benign neglect: rosemary asks for the three cheapest things in gardening and repays them in flavour, flowers and bees.
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Photinia Care Guide: Growing Red Robin and Friends in Australia
Every trim triggers a flush of brilliant red new growth: photinia is the hedge that rewards you for cutting it, and it grows almost anywhere.
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English Box and Buxus Care Guide: The Classic Formal Hedge
Four hundred years of formal gardens rest on one small shrub. Buxus is slow, dense and utterly reliable, if you pick the right species for your climate.
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Bougainvillea Care Guide: How to Grow Riots of Colour in Australia
No plant delivers more colour per litre of water than bougainvillea. The secret to masses of bracts is sunshine and strategic neglect.
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Blueberry Ash Care Guide: Growing Elaeocarpus reticulatus in Australia
A slender Australian rainforest native with fringed bell flowers and bright blue berries, blueberry ash is one of the best small feature trees you can plant.
