Monthly Archives: June 2019
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Posted: June 01, 2019Categories: Which Plants
Agapanthus are popular plants for gardens, and for pots. They're resilient, sun-loving, and free-flowering. Find the best agapanthus for your garden, from back-of-border giants, to windowbox babies
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Posted: June 01, 2019
Bad bugs eat our plants and ruin crops, leaving our garden a mess and more susceptible to disease. Good bugs (aka Beneficial Insects) help to control these pests by making a meal out of them. While the good guys are moving about the garden eating mites, aphids and scale, they're also often doing the important job of pollinating our plants.
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Posted: June 01, 2019
Watching wildlife can be very rewarding and relaxing - except when they demolish your newly planted garden looking for a snack! Full confession - it's unlikely any plant will be 100% animal-proof. But here's some that will fight back and stand up to the toothy attack.
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Posted: June 01, 2019Categories: Which Plants
Tall evergreen hedges. Bright flowering shrubs. Potted colour for decks and balconies. Azaleas fit into almost every space in your garden. These free-flowering shrubs will lift your spirits and fill your garden with colour. Their evergreen compact shape gives form and structure year-round. It's year-round beauty in an easy-to-manage size!
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Posted: June 01, 2019Categories: Which Plants
Lomandras are one of our most popular plants with our customers, and it's simple to see why. They have so many great attributes! They are an elegant native grass, growing in large rounded tufts, like a green fountain. This rounded shape makes them ideal plants for accent plantings, in the centre of a bed or the middle of a lawn. Lomandras also make beautiful edging plants, as they keep their neat shape without clipping. Less work for you!
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Posted: June 01, 2019Categories: Which Plants
Syzygium (lilly pilly) is a superb hedging and screening plant in all situations. It has beautiful coloured new growth, in cream, peach, orange, bronze, copper, and bright candy pink. The roots are non-invasive, which means you can plant it close to buildings without fear. It's a native, so it copes with almost everything our harsh climate can throw at it. The evergreen shiny foliage looks beautiful throughout the year, and there's fluffy flowers and brightly-coloured berries to enjoy. Find the one for you here
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Posted: June 01, 2019Categories: Which Plants
Nandina, sometimes called Sacred Bamboo or Heavenly Bamboo, is a beautiful shrub native to Japan. They suit Oriental-style gardens very well. Nandinas also work in flowery cottage gardens, woodland areas, as green topiary hedges, and in modern outdoor spaces too. No wonder Nandinas are consistently one of our most popular plants! Find the best one for you
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Posted: June 01, 2019Doing less work in the garden? Sounds like a plan! Best of all, less work means more nature – and when we encourage nature into our gardens, even a little bit, nature rewards us by helping us in the garden. We’ll show you how.Read more »
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Posted: June 01, 2019Some of our customers ask about our biosecurity restrictions on the website. And why they can't get certain specific plants shipped to their addresses. Often customers are in VIC or SA. Here's a short explanation of why we sometimes can't send you the plants you want, depending on where you live. (And why it's not us setting the rules!)Read more »
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Posted: June 01, 2019Categories: How To
We love seeing our plants thrive, unfortunately the weeds also make the most of ideal growing conditions. So here goes, the battle of the weeds. Many of us have children and pets to be mindful of and are considerate of our environment and wildlife too. Chemicals are not an option then. Here's our tips on controlling weeds naturally and organically.