Page 16 - Garden Tips & Plant Care Advice

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!

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.

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

Why do we need to prune our plants? Why can't we just leave them to grow wild, as they do in nature? Well, plants are often pruned in nature, by strong winds, reducing their energy; animals nibbling at young shoots; insects taking away dead wood. This all helps change their appearance. We want our garden plants to work hard and look their very best all year - and pruning helps achieve that. Here's how to do it

Some 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!)

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.

Create a waterwise cottage-style garden using flowering natives. They are hardy, attract wildlife, have a long flowering season and feature all the characteristics we love in cottage gardens: contrasting foliage, flowers in soft muted tones, and an open airy habit. They're naturally easy-care and many require much less water once established. Find your favourites here.