An exciting flower is blooming at Collector’s Corner right now. By Marco of Collector’s Corner. Tacca chantrieri is also known as “the bat plant”. It is a native of the steamy jungles of South East Asia and in particular, Borneo and Sumatra. It grows from 1-1.5 metres high and equally as wide. A true jungle …
We have a rare fruit expert that works at the nursery on Saturdays. His name is Dennis and here are a few snaps of his autumn garden following on from the summer, spring and winter blogs. It is amazing what you can grow successfully in a suburban garden in Melbourne despite the hot and dry …
By James Wall, Nurseryman. This morning I attended a cyclamen trial. Plant trials are usually industry only events where varieties are grown and compared by fellow nursery people. You also get to see new varieties and experimental varieties. This trial was an indoor grown crop. The seeds were sown in Early October and the young …
By James Wall Pronounced Tro-fort-ay, this is a fertiliser that is gaining in popularity. It is a different philosophy in feeding plants. It’s not all about nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK), but more about making existing nutrients in the soil more available to the plants. It does have a small amount of NPK, but it …
We now have a raised vegetable garden GardenBOX growing near our seedling section. It is performing well. It comes delivered, fully installed with growing medium and optional worm farm. You do the rest. Here is some info from its creator Marco Baretta. Crafted from recycled wooden apple crates and specially engineered for the time-starved gardener, …
For a moment in time it was front page news on The Age website. Australia, and in particular Melbourne, had produced the best garden in the best garden show in the world. Wes Fleming, brave nurseryman from family business Fleming’s Nurseries joined forces with sustainably esteemed landscape designer Phillip Johnson to produce a garden like …
Are you sick of picking up leaves by bending over? Then don’t, get yourself a Leaf Lover. After raking, just scoop and lift into your container. The large paddles allow you to collect more leaves and garden litter in one go. It is made of lightweight aluminium so only weighs 1 Kilo and will not …
It wouldn’t be Mother’s Day coming up if we didn’t offer some great gift ideas for you. Mum’s love nurseries and we get lots of mums who even pop in for a wander with their loved ones on the actual day. Saturday is also one of our busiest days of the year. Here are just …
Those who spend their free time pruning the roses or pottering in the vegie patch are considerably trimmer than their non-gardening neighbours, a study by University of Utah researchers showed. Read the full story here, written by Fiona Macrae from the Daily Mail and published on news.com.au.
By James Wall We have now set a few of these EWOOD garden beds up and I am becoming more impressed with the product every day. What is Ewood ? Ewood is not actually wood. They are planks of extruded plastic that are made from recycled plastic that would normally go into landfill. This …
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