Magic Maple Moment
Japanese maples are usually grown for their magnificent displays of autumn colour. However, in Australia they also look wonderful in spring, when they are covered in lush, new growth. There are hundreds of cultivars available, and they come in a ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Spring Cleanup - Making Mulch (Hansa Brush Chipper)
There is nothing like a bit of pruning therapy and spring offers you loads of opportunity to satisfy your urge and give your garden a well deserved cleanup. The great thing about pruning is it helps to stimulate lots of healthy new growth so if ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Techniques
You prune a plant to make it grow and look better. There are a few tricks to learn, but they are easily mastered. Pruning changes a plant's shape and encourages new growth. Buds occur at the end of a stem (the terminal bud) and along the sides ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Camellia 'Gay Baby'
A miniature camellia with a vigorous, upright growth habit. Unpruned it grows from 3-5m (10-15') tall. The leaves are small and green, with bronze new growth. The semi-double flowers are deep lavender pink and are borne in profusion along the ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Yates Fungus Gun
Spring is now well and truly upon us. The weather is really starting to warm up and the gardens are again starting to grow. Plants are putting on new growth and the lawn is leaping out of the ground. Now is the time to give your garden an old ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Garden Questions Answered
The beginning of spring signals gorgeous new growth. As the weather warms up the warmer climate plants such as Frangipani and Bougainvilleas are starting to grow. They can look a little tired at this time of the year with a few yellow leaves and ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Blitzem Snail and Slug Pellets
Everyday spring brings more new growth along with it, a hunger. Actively growing plants need nourishment. Plants that have yellow leaves could either be a sign of a mineral deficiency, especially at this time of the year, or over watering could ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Controlling Lilly Pilly acne
Lilly Pillies are some of our most popular plants, but have you ever noticed how some of them get little spots that look like acne? The bumps on the new growth are caused by a native pest called a psyllid. It feeds beneath the leaves and causes ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Feeding your garden
Whatever you are growing in the garden, it's a good time to give it a feed now that Spring weather is providing the right environment for new growth. Neville has a range of fertilizers that don't need to be applied very often and are great for ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Balloon vine (Cardiospermum grandiflorum)
A large climber with compound leaves consisting of 9 leaflets arranged in groups of 3, with each leaflet coarsely toothed. The stems, leaflets and leaf stalks are finely hairy, particularly the new growth. Flowers are white, about 1cm across, ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Roly Poly Satinash
A native of the wet tropical rainforests between Townsville and Cooktown, the graceful roly poly satinash is an outstanding ornamental plant. It has glorious weeping foliage highlighted by flushes of red to pink new growth for most of the year. ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Kikuyu (Pennisetum clandestinum)
A mat-forming grass, spreading by underground runners (rhizomes). Rhizomes are thick and usually white, at least on new growth. Leaves are bright green, folded in bud and flat and about 1cm wide when mature. Kikuyu seldom flowers or seeds, but ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
