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Posted: February 25, 2021Categories: How To
Many Australian native plants evolved in very poor, dry, ancient soils which are low in mineral and organic matter. As a result they have adapted to grow best with low nutrient needs. Using native-specific fertilisers ensures your natives stay healthy.Read more » -
Posted: December 04, 2020Categories: How To
If you read the side of a commercially-produced fertiliser packet, tub, or bottle, you’ll see three key letters – NPK – and a number or percentage beside them. What do they mean? Is a high number good or bad? We explain all, here.Read more » -
Posted: December 02, 2020Categories: How To
Creating a compost heap is a really simple and helpful thing to do for your garden, however small your outdoor patch. You can make free compost to improve your soil quality and your plants' health; and reduce your household waste and bills.Read more » -
Posted: July 30, 2020Categories: How To
Sometimes it seems like plant names are terrifyingly and unnecessarily complicated. Like they are in Klingon, not English. Can't we just call them all by their common names?Read more » -
Posted: July 08, 2020Categories: How To
Gardening can be confusing to beginners - like every hobby, there's a lot of words that have specific meanings for those in the know. Here's some of those words, to help you learn more about plants.Read more » -
Posted: May 12, 2020Categories: How To
We produce - or 'propagate' - our plants in the nursery in one of three ways : from cuttings, from tissue culture, and from seed. Find out more on how we do that, here.Read more » -
Posted: March 09, 2020Categories: How To
Read more »Bulbs are such rewarding plants to grow - child's play to plant, happy growing in gardens or pots, and can slip into the tiniest spaces to provide a burst of colour. We've got bulbs for cold climates and bulbs for subtropical ones. Here's our top ten tips for simple successful bulb planting
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Posted: March 02, 2020Categories: How To
Variegation in plants means colour all year in the garden. Variegated plants are ideal for the Australian climate. They need a little different care to an all-green plant - find out how to keep your variegated plants looking perfect here.Read more » -
Posted: June 01, 2019
Read more »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
Doing 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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