Don showed how to make a garden that would be highly bird attracting. The garden selected to be made over backed onto bushland and was roughly twenty metres by two metres in size. Before he started the property was a sorry sight. Not only were some of the plants...
If you’re like Jackie French and love the smell of aniseed, but don’t really go for black jelly beans, anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) could be a great alternative. A member of the mint family, it has toothed, licorice scented leaves on square stems....
When discussing colour in the garden black plants usually don’t rate a mention, although there are quite a few available which have either very dark, blackish leaves or black flowers. They can look very stylish used in bright areas particularly as a border, and...
The good news first – both plants have beautiful white flowers with a marvellous perfume. The bad news is that they’re tricky to grow in many areas of Australia, and could well drop dead on you. However, Don thinks that they are both definitely worth the...
Native to tropical America, bromeliads are members of the Bromeliaceae, or pineapple family. These plants come in a wonderful variety of sizes, shapes and foliage colours, and many of them are epiphytes. In other words they live up in the forks of tree branches and...
Boronias were named after the Italian botanist Francesco Borone (1769-94). They have a wonderful perfume reminiscent of lemons, which is not surprising when you consider that they belong to the Rutaceae, along with their relatives the citrus. Plant details Common...
Pruning Grevilleas Grevilleas are by far the most popular flowering Australian native plant grown in gardens today, which is hardly surprising when you consider that they attract native birds and many of them flower for most of the year. The only problem is that...
[metaslider id=31356] Don looked at a new dwarf variety of the evergreen or Bull Bay magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora). ‘Little Gem’ was developed by Warren Steed of Steed’s Nursery in North Carolina in the U.S.A. It has many of the attributes of its...
White Bat Plant Don looked at one of the world’s weirdest plants. The white bat plant, as it is commonly known, has strange, almost bizarre flowers resembling a bat’s black face with white ears and long whiskers. It is found naturally in south-east Asia...
Brunfelsias are evergreen shrubs from tropical America. There are about 30 species, all with tubular flowers which change colour over successive days. Don’s favourite, Brunfelsia bonodora, has masses of violet, lilac and white scented flowers. Plant details...