Success with Germinating Native Seeds

 PLANT DOCTOR      Germinating Native Seed Australian plants have evolved over thousands of years to respond to a variety of climatic extrem...

Pruning Native Plants with Success

PLANT DOCTOR Pruning Native Plants For some reason, many gardeners have been reluctant to prune their native plants, thinking that if they d...

Slime Mould in the Garden: Friend or Foe?

 PLANT DOCTOR Slime Mould: What Is It?  Part 1 What do the words slime mould conjure up in your imagination? Is it that black stuff growing...

Pruning Figs: It's Not Too Late

 PLANT DOCTOR Pruning Figs:  Ficus carica is the edible fig that hails from the Mediterranean. Fig trees aren’t quite as ubiquitous as citru...

How to Design For Shady Gardens

DESIGN ELEMENTS SHADY GARDENS PART 1 This shady garden series is not so much what makes the best shade trees, but what can grow in various t...

Butterfly Gardening and How to Get Them into Your Garden

 BUTTERFLY GARDENING Part 1: First Things First-what plants and how do they know which to land on? Are you bemoaning the lack of butterflies...