Garden Hints & Tips

Let’s do an autopsy!

I need to do a plant autopsy! The victim was a well established grevillea. It was a needle leaf variety so there were no warning signs of droopy leaves. 

Garden Hints & Tips

Potting mix – to buy or not to buy?

Most gardeners who have at least some pot plants on the go will have discovered potting mixes available (especially at the popular big chain store) vary greatly in quality. It doesn’t need the frequent encouragement from Gardening Australia to ‘look for the red ticks’ – the temptation to opt for

Garden Hints & Tips

Choose native plants for containers

The warmer days bring the opportunity to spruce up your garden, and to give a little TLC to tired looking pot plants and hanging baskets.

Garden Hints & Tips

Jobs, jobs and jobs!

Without a doubt the wetter season has been good for the garden, but combined with the ending of the year, it has meant that there is a long list of jobs to do in the garden and too little time to do them.