Burke’s Backyard list of the top 10 best pot plants for shade. Don has listed plants to suit a variety of climates. To find out which ones grow best in your area, check with your local nursery. Note: not all shade-tolerant plants do well in a pot, but these ones do!
Our March 2013 issue of ‘Burke’s Backyard’ magazine features a major investigation into the potting mixes you buy at your local nursery and garden centre. Expert scientific tests conducted by Kevin Handreck, Australia’s leading expert on...
If you’d like a funky, ‘land of the giants’ plant for indoors but you don’t want to spend much time on maintenance, think about the fiddle leaf fig. Its foliage is spectacular. Each glossy, violin-shaped leaf grows to around 38cm (15″) long. The good news is...
Don showed how to use storm water pipes to create a stylish architectural feature for the garden. Storm water pipes are effectively pots without bases. They’re cheap and very strong, and when the plants grow down through the bottom into the soil you don’t...
Hanging Fern Basket Ferns planted in a hanging basket add visual interest to semi-shaded or shaded areas. Planting up a hanging basket is a very easy weekend project, and it
Don showed how to turn an el cheapo, zinc-plated galvanised watering can into garden art. It
The African violets are undoubtedly among the cheeriest indoor plants available, yet people are sometimes disappointed with their performance. To help you grow better African violets, Don looked at some of the more common problems with this plant and how to overcome...
Growing plants in pots is fashionable and makes enormous sense as the trend in Australian cities is for smaller gardens and spaces. Even productive plants such as citrus can be grown in containers. How to pot a citrus What you will need: A large tub or pot. Your...
[metaslider id=31337] Maidenhair ferns are soft and lacy plants which have a variety of uses both indoors and outside. With more than 200 species of maidenhair and many more cultivars, choosing a favourite may be difficult, but they are attractive and rewarding plants...
Potted plants can be used to soften the look of hard surfaces for example where a paved area meets the wall of the house. The area can be softened further with the use of climbing plants. If these are trained on a trellis they are easy to control and will also provide...