Designs at the Festival
Designs at the festival range from detailed and intricate to simple and minimalist. For a bold move, one designer has placed deciduous branches into blocks of foam in a symmetrical pattern and placed roses and crab apples randomly through ... [... more]
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Best Climbers
Climbing plants are among the most useful plants in the garden. Deciduous climbers are great for growing over pergolas to create summer shade but allow the winter sun through. Evergreen climbers are great for growing over a fence, providing ... [... more]
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Evergreen Dogwood
A wonderful plant that is probably not very well known is the Evergreen Dogwood. Most Dogwoods are deciduous but the Evergreen variety is long flowering and has leaves all year round; a beautiful tree in the garden. An evergreen tree that is long ... [... more]
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Print fact sheet - Daphne
This large genus of evergreen and deciduous shrubs was named after a nymph in Greek mythology called Daphne. After being chased by the sun god Apollo, Daphne prayed to her father, who was a river god, to save her. The river god changed her into a ... [... more]
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Pride of China
Really good gardeners have one thing in common. They all love having that one plant that you can't have. The Pride of China (Koelreuteria bipinnata) is a classic example of it and certainly a tree to be proud of. This deciduous tree from China ... [... more]
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World's Biggest Magnolia, NZ
While Don was driving along a street in Matamata, he spotted one of the best examples of a deciduous flowering magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana) that he has ever seen. This magnificent tree was around 25m (80') high, with an even greater spread. ... [... more]
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Composting Leaves
In the autumn the leaves on deciduous trees and shrubs turn fabulous shades of gold, scarlet, crimson, orange and purple. However, when the spectacular display is over the leaves fall and can be very messy. Some people burn the leaves or put them ... [... more]
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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]
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WA Spring Colour
In spring, it seems that the garden comes alive and the plants are competing for everyone's attention. The ornamental deciduous trees are no exception and the spring colour is just outstanding. The use of small deciduous trees in the garden ... [... more]
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Autumn Colour
Autumn brings vibrant colour to the landscape and Nae Jang Sa National Park is the pinnacle. It is a really special place to visit as we just don't have those large expanses of native deciduous forest back home. It is part of a massive mountain ... [... more]
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Designs at the Festival
Designs at the festival range from detailed and intricate to simple and minimalist. For a bold move, one designer has placed deciduous branches into blocks of foam in a symmetrical pattern and placed roses and crab apples randomly through ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Magnolia - Vulcan
Deciduous magnolias are wonderful small trees which produce large scented flowers on bare branches in winter and early spring. Although there are about 100 species of wild magnolias and many of them (such as Magnolia campbellii, M. sargentiana ... [... more]
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