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Australian Natives
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Hello again Annie. Wrong email address previously. Correction gardens.are.my.lifegmail....
2I would like to be able to exchange SEEDS as postage problems sometimes make it difficult to mail p... 2
I am in Melbourne and would love to be able to request seeds . Posting plants is risky esp... 0What 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? ... 1
I was interested to read your article on this lovely climber. All the books I have read instruct tha... 0
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I have a beautiful specimen that can stand on its own as a feature. Approx 1.8 m high and 3 m... 0Does 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 ... 4
Does anybody know from first hand experience how many years it takes for cordyline petiolaris to rea... 0Hi everybody, I"m planning to plant a few cordyline petiolaris and cordyline stricta. Does anybody ... 2 -
Bulbs
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I would appreciate a recipe for making my own bulb planting mix, please. I have access to spent comm... 1I would like to naturalise daffodils in my garden - in western Sydney (hot summers, getting hotter, ... 3
Can anyone give my some ideas fro removing the dead foliage from my babianas please? I am still in ... 0I have thoroughly enjoyed your wonderful "Editors" entry. I will be needing to do some editing o... 5
Does anyone have a bulb I could have in exchange for a Eucharist Lily bulb. Thanks
... 0Bought this bulb as a large white cactus Dahlia. Im not convince... 1This is a photo of my Scadoxus in Feb 2013 ... 6Good 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 ... 0
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Wondering whether anyone has grown a Hydrangea 0Hi Everyone. Not quite sure where this topic should go I guess it is along the line of colour scheme... 6
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Compost & Soils
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Mulch, 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 ... 1
I have 5 almost-bare garden beds in the front yard that have extremely hard, compacted soil (probabl... 0I 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... 2
Anyone know where in Sydney there is an outlet, retail, wholesale or manufacturer,for a range of fib... 0Can someone please help. I have several Clivias and the roots h... 4
I"m training a port wine magnolia into a pom pom standard. It"s growing a good central trunk but lea... 0
I wonder if its worthwile to germinate a johannesteijsmannia seed in a container , and the soil it n... 0I 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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I live near Blaxland in the lower Blue Mountains. Summer temperatures are similar to those of Penri... 0This 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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We plan to use our old green rubbish bin into a container for liquid fertiliser. Have put a tap at ... 0Thought 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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Hi first time ,on this forum ,i live in adelaide and have grown agapantha"s each year for ten years ... 0Have 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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I have to screen a west facing wall that houses some ugly equipment at the entrance to our studio. ... 0
I bought a Lady Di climber last year it"s in a decent sized pot has grown well looks healthy but unl... 0
I love ginger plants, but some species seem to get a caterpillar that attacks the flower shoot causi... 0
How to stimulate new growth shoots,from the side of the tree from lower trunk 0
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I hope that someone can offer advice on how to to proceed after having an avocado tree... 0
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I have had a wonderful Pothos (I think) for about 5 years, and it"s always thrived.
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My azaleas are all spot flowering at present but I want to trim them back as soon as the flowers are... 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... 1
I have a large Buddha Belly bamboo that I plan to move next spring. Am I best to chop it to its sock... 0I get plenty of green caterpillars on a variety on plants from herbs to succulents! I can pick them ... 3
Can anyone tell me the correct ph for Clerdendron Nutans mine has yellowing leaves and trying to fi... 0G"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... 1
I have a fruit cage in which I grow tomatoes, courgettes, cucumber aubergine and basil. This year mo... 0Without 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 ... 2
Hi. Having recently planted some boxus plants, albeit small at the moment. Planted these with the i... 0
Hi. Am looking for suggestions to re invigorate a very sturdy wooden shade house/bush house,.. We re... 0Hi, I have a big lemon tree which has lots of gall from gall wasp. I know they are meant to be remov... 2
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I have some sort of bug on my helebores. The bugs are mainly white and very small,... 0Hi all, can someone please tell me if ALL ipomoea plants are invasive and weedy? My garden club has ... 4
Hello everyone,
I am a new member, semi-retired from a long career in the landscape industry and I"... 0REcently we purchased a property in central victoria that was a fromer nursery. along one boundary ... 1
Every April here in Melbourne I await with baited breat the arrival of some much needed relief from ... 0Is 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... 2
I have some very old trees in my garden and a very old and huge wisteria has climbed completely up i... 0My lovely Geraniums have been attacked by caterpillars . they ... 2
Does anyone know how to get rid of (or at least very actively discourage!) mole crickets from a lawn... 0tomatoes 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... 1
This is a weird one.
Two years ago I bought a Fraxinus Griffithii (Flowering Ash) and until recentl... 0Does 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 ... 1
A couple of years ago I planted some of these new dwarf hybrids.Two of them have become rather "legg... 0Any suggestions for plants that like dry shade ?....along with the following site restrictions - (1)... 2
Normally the flowers are very white, this year they are brown while still on the bush.
... 0My 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... 8
My Mum lives at Nambucca Heads in a unit and has recently been plagued by woolly aphids on her Hoya ... 0Just 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... 1
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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... 2
For those who are keen to keep track of the garden have a look at the site https://myfolia.com
It i... 0
Hi Guys,
While I love to read about your beautiful temperate gardens and sympathise about winter ch... 0I 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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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
Hi. I am looking for nurseries in Central Victoria that retail Louisianna 0
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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... 2
Can anuone please help with ID of this plant, it is a low plant similar in height to average 0This 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... 5
I am wondering if anyone can identify this plant please? I have grown it from a cutting I took in N... 0I 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... 5
I forget where I acquired this Buddleia but after two years it has finally bloomed. The flowers are ... 0Sorry, 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... 4
This is Marie and I would like to thank Barbara ans Deirdre for identifying the "Bergenia"
for us.H... 0I 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... 1
A common hardy plant in all high veld South African gardens - the Barberton daisy i.e. Gerbera james... 0hi everyone,i would like to purchase lepechenia Salviae,could so... 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 ... 0
Hi my name is Stephen. I have had my pansy seeds in for over 4 weeks now and not a single pansy. I h... 0
I want to make some cuttings of my Killie Campbell Bougainvillea. Would this time of the year be ok... 0Hi 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
I would like to see the roses grown on your continent. What you prefer rose tastes and preferences. ... 0
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Shrubs
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I have an Acacia "Limelight" that is at least 10 years old and is now too big for it"s site. As it i... 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 ... 10
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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... 2
Yesterday I purchased a soil testing kit for $16.95. I had a lot of fun testing soil around my gard... 0Ok , so I have decided to become the biggest commercial plant grower in the Southern Hemisphere, may... 1
Fabulous initiative on www.myopengarden.com.au
Well done!
... 0Hi, 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 a tree which I think is a Chinese pistachio (Pistacia chinensis) that has very intertwined gn... 0
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I am looking for some advice please. I have finally gotten rid of a very large and old liqu... 0
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Wildlife in the Garden
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Has anyone found a deterrent for Bandicoots? We have relatively small garden beds around the backyar... 0
one pair of King Parrots sneek in so quietly to feast on the fallen 0Living 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
Seeds