Unfulfilled plant longing
Do you have plants that you’ve longed for, ever since your early days of gardening, but you’ve never acquired? Stuff that you think you should have grown out of, but haven’t, give...
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Vegie garden hedge suggestions
Hi, I'm going around and around and getting nowhere with deciding on a hedging plant to surround my vegie garden so I was hoping for some suggestions and advice from anyone who has...
My proteas have been eaten alive!
Does anyone know if proteas will regrow leaves on branches that have been stripped bare by goats? The branches are still alive - just completely bare. I’m not sure if I should leav...
What stupid/embarrassing things have you done in not quite understanding garden instructions?
It's hilarious how literally you take garden instructions/directives when you first start out in gardening. I remember someone telling me that daphne cuttings should be taken on C...
Driveway planting
Hi! We’ve got a long (300m) curved driveway in the macedon ranges with capital pears along each side. Would like to plant something along the edges but not sure what we should ch...
Should the Magnolia go?
Hi all, I'm based in Melbourne and planted two Magnolia grandiflora 'St Mary' Pleached trees in late 2018 and I'm struggling to figure out what has gone wrong with the obvious o...