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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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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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.
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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.
