Early Spring Flowering Plants
The Burke's Backyard Spring Special features the following plants. Rhododendrons are one of the world's most beautiful cold climate flowering plants. There are between 800 and 900 different wild kinds of rhododendrons, as well as thousands of ... [... more]
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Kalanchoe Winter Wonders
You see them every winter bursting into brilliant bloom, although you will notice that this happens when a lot of flowering plants go to sleep. They are incredibly versatile, and there are lots of different ways that you can enjoy their colour ... [... more]
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Growing Dahlias
Dahlias have to be one of the most spectacular of all summer flowering plants, and you might expect that something as beautiful as Dahlias would be incredibly delicate, but in fact they are very tough plants and Phil tells us why. All the beauty ... [... more]
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Cultivars of Mandevilla:
It is hard to find a garden that doesn't look its best in the spring. With so many flowering plants out at that time of the year it's easy to have a beautiful garden. The real challenge comes in getting your garden to look good all year ... [... more]
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March Happenings
We're sort of between seasons at the moment, the summer flowering plants have just about finished and soon many of the trees will be decked out in their beautiful red, yellow and brown autumn colours. Even so, Don still managed to find plenty of ... [... more]
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Bambino Bougainvilleas
Bougainvilleas are among the most colourful and the most spectacular flowering plants. However they can be rampant climbers that can take over the garden, choking trees. The answer for the average size garden lies in dwarf bougainvilleas. They ... [... more]
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Bedding Plants - New Releases
With autumn upon us it is time to look out for some annuals (also referred to as bedding plants) which will provide outstanding colour during winter and early spring. Don recently came across two new varieties of popular winter flowering plants, ... [... more]
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Azalea Sports
Burke's Backyard receives letters about confusing flowering plants that have two different coloured flowers on the one bush. For example an azalea may have magenta purple flowers with one branch of whitish flowers with a magenta purple edge. The ... [... more]
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Yates Success Naturalyte
You know gardens just don't have to look pretty with beds of flowering plants; they can actually be practical as well. These days more and more people are searching for a fresh organic alternative and what better way than to grow your own. Grow ... [... more]
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Wisteria Seed Pods
Wisterias are beautiful flowering plants but Peter Valder noted that some people seem surprised to see this plant with seed pods. Peter Valder recently looked at these plants when he visited some Mt Wilson gardens. Wisteria is a legume, like peas ... [... more]
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Waterlilies
Waterlilies are without doubt one of the most incredible of all flowering plants. The flowers are perfection personified. Exquisite in structure, they come in vibrant colours ranging from yellows through to blue and some are intoxicatingly ... [... more]
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Flower Carpet Roses
Roses are without doubt the most rewarding flowering plant a person can have. They produce flowers in every shape, size, and colour and with exquisite fragrance when required. They love our sunny summer days and other than some precautionary care ... [... more]
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