Trees for the Garden
With the heat of summer well and truly here finding just a little shade makes being in the garden bearable. Of course, trees provide fantastic cooling shade and choosing the right tree for your garden will be a wonderful asset to your yard. Kim's ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Citrus Trees
About 20 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees. Some are grown for their edible fruit such as oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, mandarines, etc. The citrus family crops longer than any other fruit tree. The fragrant white star-shaped ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Trees for the Garden
Deciduous trees are nature's reverse-cycle air conditioners because in summer the leafy canopy provides cooling shade and in winter when they are bare they allow in that warming winter sun in, but that is not the only reason to grow deciduous ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Top Ten Gum Trees
Gum trees have had a lot of bad press: they grow too big, fall over, drop branches and have other habits gardeners will not tolerate. But these problems relate to some species, often badly planted or positioned, not to all gum trees. Some of the ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Buying Fruit Trees
Go to your local garden centre to check out the mouth watering range of fruit trees just waiting to be planted in your garden this spring. When it comes to peaches, go with the yellow fleshed and superbly flavoured Elberta. While the ever ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Bare-rooted Trees - Flemings
Come winter nurseries are jam-packed with a huge range of bare-rooted trees which are generally cheaper than their potted counterparts, so it is the perfect time to choose a feature tree or get that long awaited landscape project off the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Fertilising Trees
When you are fertilising your garden it is easy to overlook the established trees but they need feeding just as much as any other plant. The trouble is, if the tree is growing in a lawn then the grass will try to gobble up all the nutrients ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Fruit Trees
It is amazing to think that when you are buying your fruit trees, rose bush or ornamental bush it is almost like you are getting two plants in one. Below where the plants have been grafted are the root stock and it will be a rootstock selected ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Christmas Trees
The smell of Christmas is here. Nothing gets the Yuletide spirit going like the fragrance of fresh pine needles. Forget your plastic trees, how about choosing a real one to take home and decorate creating that very special Christmas feel in your ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Fruit Salad Trees
Multi-grafted fruit trees are a great way to save money and space in the garden. Having different varieties on the one tree means that each graft grows independently of the others, so the fruit retains its own characteristics, such as flavour, ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Brisbane Street Trees
Taking a walk around the streets in your neighbourhood is a great way to discover the plants that grow well in your area. Street trees can also be an important source of shade and provide food and shelter for native wildlife. As well, established ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Jacarandas and Other Monsoonal Deciduous Trees
This is a wonderful time of year because there are so many trees in full flower and looking absolutely spectacular. Burke's Backyard visited the town of Grafton in northern New South Wales at the peak of jacaranda time, and used a cherry picker ... [... more]
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