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Best Lilly Pilly Varieties The lilly pilly is one of the most popular plants in Australia today, particularly for hedging and topiary. Lilly pillies are evergreen rainforest plants with glossy green leaves. Many varieties have flushes of colourful new...

Best perfume1. 'Double Delight' (two tone cream and crimson)2. 'Friesia' (yellow)3. 'Rod Stillman' (violet-pink)4. 'Papa Meilland' (dark red)5. 'Fragrant Cloud' (brick red)6. 'Jardins de Bagatelle' (pale cream)7. 'Queen Adelaide' (deep mid-pink)8. 'The Children's Rose' (soft mid-pink)9. 'Sharifa Asma' (pale peach/apricot)The...

Best Plants for TopiaryTopiary is an art form that has been rediscovered by gardeners in the last 10-15 years. It's now very fashionable to use buxus cones and cubes, spiralled conifers, or lilly pillys clipped into...

Best Pot Plants for Sun and ShadeMany people love growing plants in pots, but potted gardens can be a lot of work. Choosing the right plants is half the battle. Some...

Best Topiary Plants Topiary is an art form that has been rediscovered by gardeners in the last 5-10 years. Cones, cubes and round balls shaped from living plants are appearing in all kinds of gardens,...

Autumn foliage plants are a great investment around the home. They provide shade in summer, put on a fabulous colour display in autumn, then lose their leaves allowing the warming, winter sun to shine through. ...

Australian native gardens have a reputation for being straggly, grey, and even ugly. However it is possible to plant a beautiful garden of Australian native plants on even a small suburban block. 'Burke's Backyard' visited the garden of artist Betty...

Billardiera ringensThe genus Billardiera is named in honour of the French botanist La Billardiere, and includes about twenty species of handsome climbing plants. Don looked at a member of the group called...

Bindii Small ferny bright green growths in your lawn in winter are the beginnings of the nasty prickles that will bother you in summer as they indicate bindii. The colder months are the time to...

Many parts of Australia have been affected by drought in recent times. Lawns in those areas have tended to thin out and die back. Dryness combined with mowing too close...