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Australian Natives
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I would like to be able to exchange SEEDS as postage problems sometimes make it difficult to mail p...
2What treatment if any is available for Grevillia root rot? Plant has been growing and flowering wel... 1Wondering if anyone has cycads in their gardens, tips on how they successfully grew them and care in... 5Hi all, five years since moving to the NSW mid north coast I"ve finally found a native nursery which... 4i bought a peony plant last year ,i had a few leaves on it and this year it has just got a couple of... 3I have some Kangaroo Paw from "Bush Gems" which were planted in the garden and bloomed for a couple... 4What is the best fertilizer for Grevilleas? ... 1Does anyone know whether correas like a dry shady spot and are they hard to grow? ... 3Hello, I have a large (10 feet) fern tree which I think is a Dicksonia Antartica and on one of the ... 4Hi everybody, I"m planning to plant a few cordyline petiolaris and cordyline stricta. Does anybody ... 2 -
Bulbs
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I would like to naturalise daffodils in my garden - in western Sydney (hot summers, getting hotter, ... 3I have thoroughly enjoyed your wonderful "Editors" entry. I will be needing to do some editing o... 5Bought this bulb as a large white cactus Dahlia. Im not convince... 1This is a photo of my Scadoxus in Feb 2013 ... 5Good morning, I have had a wonderful show of my Snowflakes (Leucojum) this year and was wondering wh... 4Here are photos of another specie in the Boophone family the Boophone disticha. The first photo ... 16Here is one of my Boophone Haemanthoides that flowered earlier this year. I am sure that I read ... 4I just joined this forum a few days ago and have to find my way around still. Firstly I have been gr... 14I have both the winter as well as the summer flowering Paramongaia weberbaueri. The summer growing b... 4
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Colour Schemes
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I have a hot dry Sydney front garden and every year the yellow self seeded cosmos pops up again. On ... 4Hi Everyone. Not quite sure where this topic should go I guess it is along the line of colour scheme... 6 -
Compost & Soils
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Can anyone suggest to me the best type of soil testing kit to buy as there are so many in the big gr... 0Mulch, menure and compost contain various microorganisms. When mulch/compost/menure is added to the ... 1Hi fellow gardeners, does any one have experience using gum leaves as mulch? How thick, does it add ... 1I just retired, so, let the gardening commence.... I have a garden with pottery quality wet clay ... 4Ccould anyone tell me how long I should leave shredded mulch before I can use it in the garden? The... 4Hi, We have bought a house on a third of an acre, to the north of Sydney, NSW. There is a re... 3
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Container Gardening
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Does anyone know where to source small terracotta pots that don"t cost the earth? Size approximately... 2Can someone please help. I have several Clivias and the roots h... 4I am looking for suggestions for a good vigorous climber to grow long term in a container. I want t... 5Hello, I am wondering if there are any thoughts as to where you can find "interesting" terracotta p... 5
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Edible Plants
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Does anybody know if French Tarragon will grow in Sydney? I have read that it dislikes humidity. Re... 3I love munching raw capsicums. Today I picked a huge red capsicum & took a big bite. A couple of hou... 1I have a vegi bed with cucumbers, pumpkins, tomatoes, capsium to name a few. Some of the flowers/lea... 3I have a wonderful crop of small tomatoes but they are bitter. Can I do anything about this. I re... 1
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Foliage Plants
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This afternoon I decided to bite the bullet and create the box hedge along the side entry to our hou... 1
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Gardening Books
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Thought it might be a good idea to buy a garden book (new gardener)as know nothing, can you suggest ... 9
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Garden Photos
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A picture of my Green Wall in flower. It is Pandorea pandorana... 1Have only had this beautiful Gaura for a couple of years and this... 2Flowering for me at this time of the year is Burbidgea schizocheila (Golden Brush Ginger) It make... 1Hi all here is a photo of my epiphyte tree.Do any other members grow epiphytes up their trees.More p... 7
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Garden Problems
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As I live on the Gold Coast, when is the best time to apply lawn grub treatment which has devastated... 0I have a large bed that gets full sun in summer and no sun at all in winter. I would like to plant ... 2
I have to screen a west facing wall that houses some ugly equipment at the entrance to our studio. ... 0My cane-stemmed Begonia flowers are falling off and there is li... 1Native violets are taking over many of my garden beds (in the shade). My question is will they act l... 1I get plenty of green caterpillars on a variety on plants from herbs to succulents! I can pick them ... 3G"day - sorry, I have just been lurking for a good while, but hopefully someone will be prepared to ... 3I"ve grown Clivia for years and have only had one problem with b... 1Without Lebaycid, what can I do about fruit fly? Producers can use it on crops, but home gardeners ... 1I have a large area of concrete wall which was beautifully covered with ficus pumila. Large areas of... 1I"m looking for a plant preferably a shrub to hide a fence that will grow in dense shade and near a ... 2Hi, I have a big lemon tree which has lots of gall from gall wasp. I know they are meant to be remov... 2Hi all, can someone please tell me if ALL ipomoea plants are invasive and weedy? My garden club has ... 4REcently we purchased a property in central victoria that was a fromer nursery. along one boundary ... 1Is there no one else from Perth that is a member? I lived in England for 20 years, Sydney for 7 ye... 1My purple flowering Salvia was covered in flowers last year but ... 2my weeping Camellia has been thriving but has a couple of shoo... 1My lawn (which is too large to dig up and returf) is a mess of different grasses and herbs. It looks... 2My lovely Geraniums have been attacked by caterpillars . they ... 2tomatoes planted next to onion weed in the garden beds will destroy the onion weed I usually just t... 2Hi, I am a transplant from NYC and have lived with my family here in Melbourne for 5 years. So it is... 1Does anybody know how I can stop birds from eating the new buds on my rose bushes? ... 1We have recently purchased some trellis to grow climbing plants up. My husband has just covered one ... 1Any suggestions for plants that like dry shade ?....along with the following site restrictions - (1)... 2My brave little azalea is coming into bloom but all its leaves are faded and spotty from what I beli... 1I"ve sprinkled dolomite on my garden killing some of the plants. Can someone tell me how to neutrali... 1Suggestions please for an important but horrendous situation. I need a pair of statement plants to b... 3I have a planter box on my upstairs balcony which I have been trying to grow some pansy seedlings in... 8Just a beginner (today in fact) but I have been given a cutting of 3I bought Salvia "Mystic Spires" last summer, captivated by the i... 3I have two large (1 metre across) Elkhorns and I have noticed lately that where the fronds come out ... 3I have a border edged with the lower growing Alstroemerias... 1Locally, we and our neighbours are experiencing a plague of rats. I have actually seen them in the g... 4Does anyone know a failsafe method for removing onion weed from the garden? Should you use poison fo... 5Despite summer"s humidity being far gone I am still experiencing rust on my fuschias, particularly t... 1I have 2 small Begonias that have broken out in white spots. Th... 1I have many succulents growing in clay pots,potting mix is a proprietry succulent/cacti mix.But ongo... 4Hi All, my garden seems to be a favourite hang out for some of the local cats. Lovely as they are I ... 12How do you tell when white louse scale are dead? I have a large mandarin (5m tall) that was infeste... 6This is the worst of the images. Newer leaves appear a bit better. I"ve been giving the tree "super... 5The front of my house, which is purplish grey in colour, faces north. The problem area is the bed un... 10
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Handy Hints
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Hi i would love to know the best plants to put in my garden i have a blank canvas i would like to d... 2I would like to introduce you to a free mulch delivery service. Mulchnet has recently expanded to no... 1
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Miscellaneous
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Could someone advise me when is the best time to transplant a Finger Lime.It will be going from a ga... 0
Would be grateful for some cuttings of the Rangoon creeper to try growing it if anyone has them and ... 0Dos anyone know of an app for my phone which will identify a plant from a photo. I have tried google... 1I would like to buy some of the bromeliads written about but my problem is this. In the major nurs... 1
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Mystery Plants
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... seen around the upper Blue Mountains, often naturalised on nature strips or in old neglected gar... 3Hello, Looking for some feedback as to identity of this pretty pink flower. Seems I"m only able to i... 2This has started growing in a hanging basket, next to an epiphyllum. Is it a plant or a weed? ... 4Grows into a small tree, flowering now in my Melbourne suburban garden, with white apple blossom typ... 5I had this lovely indoor plant back in 2009. I came across the photo the other day. I would like to ... 5Hi, I don"t remember planting this shrub it started growing in one of my pots. It hasn"t flowered ye... 5Sorry, I posted this on the forum, but inside some one elses topic. Anyway, here we go again. When ... 5Hi I was totally convinced of having planted a Senecio Dusty Miller which has yellow flowers but... 1We saw this plant in Tasmania recently. It also comes with markings on the leaves. ... 3Would anyone be able to identify this flower on a large shrub/tree. It was growing in Toowoomba area... 2Are you able to identify this plant? The comment from my local nursery was " don"t know what it is... 2I came across this magnificent tree at a very busy intersection in Neutral Bay. I asked as many loca... 5This pretty little Aster is currently flowering in my garden, but... 2I have a Begonia plant that I have only seen once before, and ... 2Does anyone know the cultivar name for the single pink weeping sasanqua 2Can anyone tell me the name of this yellow flowered plant growing in my friend"s garden in the Gold ... 2I am trying to source plants originating from northern NZ. There are a large range of stunning tropi... 1Very novice gardener! Could someone tell me what this is please....and how to control it! Thanks ... 2Inherited a garden that is rampant with these two plants/weeds (Plant 1&2). Would someone be so kin... 3This plant appears in my garden late spring to early summer and dies down over winter. It sends new... 2We have 2 huge Yucca/Agave like plants in our rocky north facing front garden - fairly moist & prote... 2I saw a beautiful succulent looking plant covered in prolific blooms. The flowers looked a bit like ... 6These grew from a bag of gifted mystery bulbs. Bulbs were small off white to yellow. Looked like imm... 4I have a tree growning in our garden and I don"t know what it is. It has leaves that look like a cr... 2This small plant came to me from my sister in laws garden as a small seedling plucked from growing i... 2My name is Marie ,a new member from Adelaide and I hope someone can identify this plant for me. My ... 2A reader, Helen, has this plant growing in her garden, as do I. It is a shrub about 3 m tall and has... 7
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Perennials
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I am ex Christchurch and had a large variety of Alstroemarias growing in my garden as they made wond... 1Hi everyone I have been looking for some of the not so common Aurms such as Arum creticum Arum orien... 2I would like to purchase some daylilies, and would like some feedback on which nurseries offer these... 3
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Propagation Tips
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Just wondering if anyone has some tips on propagating this plant? Also what could be chewing holes ... 1Hi my name is joanne, i have a palonia ( hope that is how u spell it ) does anyone know when the bes... 3
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Roses
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how do I prune climbing roses ... 2In my new place there are some very old climbing roses that havent been pruned for years. The stems... 4Can anyone suggest roses which do well in Sydney and also have a good perfume. ... 2Would some one please let me know how they control Thrips in roses blooms. My roses become so infes... 2Does anyone know if the yellow rose of Texas (rosa harrisonii)was ever released in Australia? thank... 1
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Shrubs
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I have 5 Azaleas in pots not looking very well. They are surrounded by white crushed quartz pebbles.... 0
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Succulents
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Hi we live in North Queensland and have been collectors of adenium desert roses for many years now. ... 1Living in an area of extreme temperatures - over 40C in summer and often below zero in winter, plus ... 11
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Tools
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After many years of struggling with rubbish secateurs I decided to splash out and buy some new Felc... 2Ok , so I have decided to become the biggest commercial plant grower in the Southern Hemisphere, may... 1Hi, Does anyone know where I can buy metal plant supports in Australia? I want something strong en... 1I would appreciate any feedback about hedge trimmers. I"ve never used them, and am thinking about p... 2We have had a small electric mulcher for quite a few years but a while ago it reached the end of its... 9
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Trees
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I have previously thought of planting one in the back corner of my back yard - but I was not aware o... 0
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Wildlife in the Garden
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Living close to a reserve we unfortunately find stray cats making their way to our garden. Does any... 2Does anyone know how I can deter bandicoots from our Brisbane garden? We recently replanted our ret... 1I live in an an area near the bush and my garden is being over-run with rabbits who are decimating m... 9
Flower seeds