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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Trees
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...
Feature Tree
Hi, I'd like to pick your collective brains please. I'm planning a cottage front garden in Ferntree Gully, Melbourne. I have 2 beds either side of a central path each 7m x 4.5m. I...
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Shade Tree Guidance for a new Gardner
Hi All, New gardener here, living on Mid North Coast of NSW for climate reference. We have brought our back garden a long way (I feel) however the rear of the house faces due we...
Replacing an avenue of trees
Hello Gardenists. We have a long driveway in coastal Victoria, lined with 40 Bradford ornamental pear trees that are coming to the end of their life (20 years). The driveway is p...
Windbreak ideas
Living on the side of an old volcano in the western goldfields area of Victoria, we have beautiful views, but with these come incredible howling winds. I’m trying to select tough,...
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