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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Thrive Granular All Purpose
Right now is the perfect time for planting colourful pansies in Queensland and if you get them in now, they will give you loads of colour throughout winter right up to early spring. Just a patch here and there or a few colourful pots is all you ... [... more]
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Pruning
Winter is the time of year you should be getting out and pruning your garden and there are certain plants that really need it. Fruit trees are one and roses are another. If you give them a good cut back now, come early spring you will have lots ... [... more]
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How to Save Water this summer
After great winter and good early spring rains the garden is off to its best start in years and just because we have had lots of rain doesn't mean it is time to get carried away watering this summer. In fact now is the time to get ahead and bank ... [... more]
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Norman Snow
"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William ... [... more]
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Paige Peterson
Meet Blackie, the stubbornly motionless equine hero of Christopher Cerf and Paige Peterson's delightful and touching... Blackie, The Horse Who Stood Still Christopher Cerf and Paige Peterson In a pasture in Kansas one early spring morn A horse ... [... more]
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Cape ivy (Delairea odorata, formerly Senecio mikanioides)
Cape ivy is a non-woody vine with thin but slightly fleshy, glossy leaves with angular lobes. The flowers are yellow and daisy-like, but lacking conspicuous petals, sweet-scented, and are produced in winter or early spring. Seed is small, with a ... [... 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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What to expect:
Deciduous magnolias produce their spectacular winter and early spring blooms on naked branches. Although expensive plants to buy they are longlived, slow growing trees which bring a stunning display to your garden each year. Colours range from ... [... more]
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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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Witch Hazel
The genus Hamamelis contains five species from North America and the Orient. They are highly prized for their fragrant flowers, which are borne on bare stems from mid winter to early spring, and also for their excellent yellow and orange autumn ... [... more]
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Getting Started
Clivias are wonderful, almost unkillable plants, which brighten the garden during late winter and early spring with clusters of vibrant yellow throated, orange or salmon trumpet flowers. The flowers are held on stalks above the clump of dark ... [... more]
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