Yucca Care Guide: Tough Architectural Plants for Indoors and Out
Indoors in a dim corner or outside in baking sun, yuccas keep their architectural looks on a watering schedule you will occasionally forget. They will not mind.
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Pittosporum Care Guide: Fast Screening Hedges for Australian Gardens
Small shimmering leaves on near black stems, a metre of growth a year and a haircut twice annually: pittosporum is privacy in a hurry.
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Bamboo Screening Guide: Growing Clumping Bamboo in Australia
Clumping bamboo is the fastest privacy screen you can plant. This guide covers the best varieties, spacing, and the truth about bamboo and boundaries.
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Golden Cane Palm Care Guide: The Fast Tropical Screen for Australian Yards
Golden stems, arching fronds and no single trunk to look past: the golden cane palm screens a fence line the way few plants can, and fast.
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Grevillea Care Guide: Flowers, Feeding and the Phosphorus Rule
No other native genus feeds as many birds or flowers for as many months. From knee high ramblers to 20m silky oaks, there is a grevillea for every job.
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Agave Care Guide: Sculptural, Waterwise and Nearly Indestructible
One good agave does the work of a whole garden bed: bold, symmetrical and alive on rainfall alone. The trick is drainage, and almost nothing else.
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Westringia Care Guide: Growing Coastal Rosemary Anywhere in Australia
Salt wind, drought, frost and neglect: coastal rosemary shrugs off all four, then flowers most of the year anyway. This is the native hedge for hard places.
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Plants That Thrive in Poor Soil
Sandy, compacted or nutrient-poor ground does not have to limit a garden. Natives, hardy shrubs and tough trees that grow well without constant soil improvement.
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Garden Layout Mistakes That Make Outdoor Spaces Look Smaller
Overcrowded beds, narrow paths, blocked sightlines and too much paving all shrink a garden visually. Ten common layout mistakes and how to correct each one.
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Plants That Change Colour Throughout the Year
Japanese maple, nandina, loropetalum and crepe myrtle shift colour as the year turns, giving a garden something new to look at in every season.
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Unusual Trees That Will Make Your Garden Stand Out
Dragon tree, Illawarra flame tree, bottle tree, monkey puzzle and Wollemi pine: striking trees that still perform in Australian conditions.
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Best Trailing Plants for Retaining Wall
Dichondra 'Silver Falls', Cousin It, Pigface and Hardenbergia spill over hard edges and soften stone. Plant at the top of the wall, 60-90cm apart, for the best effect.
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Rooftop Garden Ideas: Turning a Roof Into a Green Space
Rooftops are windy, hot and weight limited, which narrows the plant list fast. Container planting, screening, shade and the structural checks to do first.
