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What to Plant for Poorly Drained Soils

Wet Weather Gardening After yet more rain on the east coast many plants in many gardens are suffering water-logging. Even in reasonably well drained soils the inundation has been too much for some plants. Physically, the force of rain, streams… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Coastal, Feature shrub, Hedge, Screening plants, Small tree, Tropical garden
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One for that difficult damp spot: Bauera rubioides

This is Dog Rose one of the few native plants with a likeable common name đŸ˜‰Â Bauera rubioides grows happily in those moist positions in sun or shade where other native plants rot or succumb to fungal diseases. It makes a… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Natives for containers, Shade tolerant, Winter flowering
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The Versatile Spider Lily: Crinum pedunculatum

I have only just realised how very adaptable this plant is after seeing it growing on the beach in Murramarang National Park last week, I had no idea it would grow on sand in a front line coastal position and look… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Coastal, Frost tolerant, Shade tolerant, Tropical garden
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The many colours of Banksia robur

I saw this particular Banksia robur at Wireandra Nursery a couple of weeks ago, and could be heard to cry out ‘Wow those flowers have Aqua in them!’ once I go up closer I also noticed that at the end… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Feature shrub, Small tree, Winter flowering
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