Wattles (Genus Acacia )
Acacia make excellent garden plants. They range in habit from prostrate and low-growing species to larger shrubs and shade trees. Most respond to pruning immediately after flowering and, if carried out regularly, pruning can extend the life of ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
A Waterwise Garden
#1. Good, open, friable soil. You may or may not be blessed with good soil in your garden - but if not then you can make it better - it's the key to a Waterwise Garden. Plants need both room to move and moisture to ... [... more]
Gardens Online |
Celery
Chilli, also known as hot peppers, are increasingly popular home garden plants reflecting growing interest in Asian and Mexican cooking. They are closely related to sweet capsicums and are warm season plants that ... [... more]
Bedding Plants Australia |
Govt Rules Out Retaliation Over Apple Ban
Australia claims it is free of fireblight, despite discoveries of the bacteria on garden plants. New Zealand growers have produced scientific research to shows the disease is not transmitted on clean ripe fruit. But Agriculture Minister Jim ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Capeweed
The garden plant gazania (Gazania rigens and cultivars) has a similar low habit and similar flowers. It occasionally naturalises on road verges or from dumping in bush. It forms a spreading clump, rather than ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Coral Tree
None, other than the smaller and less common garden plant, cockspur coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli). Coral tree is often confused with the Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolius), which is a native of the ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Sage Salvia
Many beautiful sage species are grown as garden plants, including some with aromatic leaves grown primarily as culinary herbs, but even these can be grown for their ornamental value alone. The genus name goes back to ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Raymond Rogers
Ray Rogers has exhibited and won major awards at the Philadelphia Flower Show. A freelancer based in New Jersey, he edited The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and The American ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
|
