Trees for the Garden
With the heat of summer well and truly here finding just a little shade makes being in the garden bearable. Of course, trees provide fantastic cooling shade and choosing the right tree for your garden will be a wonderful asset to your yard. Kim's ... [... more]
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Bronzes for the Garden
Until recently if you were looking for something to add a little bit of class to the garden, perhaps a beautiful sculpture, you had to import it from overseas. The good news is that there's now a range of locally made artworks starting to become ... [... more]
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WATERWISE TIP:
Gavin of Aberfoyle Park has been given a clump of agapanthus. He wants to know how to divide these to make new plants for the garden. Well Gavin, Agapanthus are one of those near indestructible plants. Agapanthus can be divided all year round ... [... more]
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Caribbean Markets
Ever wondered where all the plants that your local nursery stocks are found? It is in the heart of the Caribbean Markets in Melbourne, Victoria. A bustling hub for the garden centres, landscapers and growers in the horticultural industry, this is ... [... more]
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Exotic Fruit
The inspiration for the Garden Gurus book Delish was the flavour health If you live in the tropics, the strawberry is the most exotic fruit you will find and at the other end, if you live n the mountains, then the mango is the king of exotic ... [... more]
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Rose Types
A trip to your local garden centre in late spring when roses are in full bloom can be a pretty daunting experience. You might find a flower you really love, but does the bush it comes from suit the plans you have for the garden. The are many ... [... more]
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Christmas Gift
Gardeners are the easiest people to give presents to because something for the garden always makes them happy. Judy puts together a Yates garden pack for green-fingered friends. Start with one of the Yates Tuscan pots and the matching saucer. ... [... more]
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Sue visits Dawson's Garden World
Garden centres and open gardens are some of the best sources of inspiration when it comes to getting ideas for the garden. Sure, you can look in all the books you like, but gardeners are tactile people and love to look, smell and touch their way ... [... 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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Grouping Yellows
A great ornamental plant for the garden is Golden diosma (Coleonema pulchellum 'Sunset Gold') which grows as a low bush to 1m (3') with bright yellow foliage and pink starry flowers. But it can be difficult to fit golden plants such as this into ... [... more]
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Standardised Camellia
Camellias are wonderful flowering shrubs for the garden, but they also have many other uses. They can be shaped into topiaries, standards or espaliers, and they can even be grown as ground covers. At the moment standardised camellias are very ... [... more]
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Philodendrons
If you want a big, bold foliage plant for the garden, you can't go past the tree philodendron (Philodendron bipinnatifidum). It is often confused with its close relative monstera (Monstera deliciosa), but they are really easy to tell apart. ... [... more]
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