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Don’s Landscaping Tips: Adding interest to a Brick Wall Imagine looking out of the feature windows in your house and not being able to see anything, except a boring brick wall! Many people are actually finding themselves in this situation these days, because...
Don’s Landscaping Tips: Good Geometry The use of good geometry in garden design creates a spectacular formal courtyard in a small area. Matching the pinky-grey brick of the house with limestone pavers can give a natural looking backdrop for geometrically placed...
Don’s Landscaping Tips: Homeworld Hedges Even if you’re not thinking about building a house, display homes are great places to go and look for ideas. This applies to the outside of the property as well as the inside, as Don found when he visited Homeworld...
Don’s Landscaping Tips: Outdoor Entertainment Area For many years pergolas have been fashionable in Australian backyards, either freestanding or attached to the back of the house. In theory if you plant deciduous climbers they’ll grow over your pergola and...
Pruning Grevilleas Grevilleas are the most popular native plants in Australia, 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 because grevilleas are so long flowering...
The very fine dust or waste material left over from making blue metal is known under different names in Australia. Below is a list of the known names used: NSW: Blue quarry sand or Crusher dust QLD: Crusher dust or Cracker dust VIC: 5mm minus SA: Quarry sand WA: Metal...
Plants Packaged for Kids Applewood Seed and Garden Group has produced a new range of beautifully packaged seed products, which would make excellent gifts for children. There’s a kit to suit every child’s taste, they’re great fun, and they teach kids...
Everyone loves colour in the garden, but it’s really difficult to have a colourful garden all year long if you rely on just flowers. Think of the research and planning you’d have to do to make sure there was something in flower every day – most...
Bougainvilleas are indigenous to tropical and subtropical South America, and are among the world’s great flowering plants. They are scrambling climbers, with long curved thorns which help them to hook on to trees and reach up to the light. The true flowers are...
Collecting Seeds One of the most enjoyable things about gardening is growing your own plants from seed. However, seed collecting can be tricky because some plants have dry fruits that split open as soon as they’re ripe. The seeds then drop to the ground, fly...