Pick a bottlebrush local to your region, plant it in full sun for at least 6 hours a day, and prune directly behind each spent flowerhead. That is growing bottlebrush in Australia. One feed of low-phosphorus native fertilizer in spring…
Sow fennel seed 1/4 inch deep in spring and the Florence types bolt straight to flower. Sow the same packet in midsummer and you cut crisp tennis-ball bulbs about three months later. That timing split is the whole game of…
Lay one leaf on damp mix and plantlets root along its edge. That is how to grow Bryophyllum pinnatum, the succulent Indonesians call sosor bebek, and one leaf can start a whole shelf of pots. Give it bright light, a…
Grow binahong in one sealed pot, on pavement, with a trellis the vine never outgrows. That single decision answers how to grow binahong without turning a garden plant into a neighborhood problem. Madeira vine, or Anredera cordifolia, is a fast…
Cut a 10 to 15 cm stem from a healthy beluntas shrub, strip the lower leaves, and set the bare stem in moist mix. That is how to grow beluntas in a pot, and the same pot gives you fresh…
Sow 2 zucchini seeds in warm soil and pick the first fruit 6 to 9 weeks later. That is growing zucchini in Australia at its simplest. The rest of this page is 12 moves, from variety to harvest. Sow after…
Measure 3 things before you buy a wattle: the space it gets, the sun it gets, and the frost it must survive. That is how you pick from the 15 best acacia species for Australian gardens. The rest of this…
Pick 1 wattle that already grows in your district, plant it in full sun and free-draining soil, and it will flower with almost no feeding. That is growing wattle in Australia. Wattle is the everyday Australian name for the genus…
Sow isabgol in autumn, watch it for 5 to 6 months, and harvest a fistful of seed that becomes the husk sitting in your pantry. That is the whole promise of Plantago ovata, the small annual herb India grows at…
Set a new palm with the base of its stem 2.5 cm below the soil surface. That is growing palms in Australia at its most honest: depth, climate band, and job decide whether the palm lives. The rest of this…
Walk the boundary with a tape measure before you buy a tree. That is the whole job of best trees for privacy screening in Australia: match the tree to the gap, the sun, and the pipes, not to the photo…
White mold kills from the stem outward. The fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum rots stems, girdles them, and leaves cottony white growth studded with hard black sclerotia. The 10 strategies below separate this disease from two harmless look-alikes and keep it from…
Downy mildew can strip a cucumber vine bare within 10 days of the first yellow patch. The disease starts as pale patches on upper leaf surfaces, then grows a gray to purple fuzz on the undersides overnight. Catch it at…
Pseudocercospora leaf spot turns lilac leaves brown and drops them early, and 8 cleanup-first strategies hold the line. The spots look alarming by late summer. The shrub usually survives them. The disease hits two ornamental shrubs here: lilac and mountain…
Order 1 soil assay before you buy any product labeled for spiral nematode. Spiral nematode feeds on lawn roots from outside the root, and most lawns carry it without visible damage. The assay count decides whether the lawn needs work…
Impatiens necrotic spot virus has no cure. Once the virus enters a plant, the plant stays infected for life, and western flower thrips carry the virus from plant to plant for the rest of their lives. The 9 strategies below…
Fusarium wilt has no cure once it reaches the xylem. The fungus blocks the water pipes from inside, so a tomato wilts in moist soil and no spray reaches the blockage. 11 no-spray strategies below save the crop around the…
The 12 best budget houseplants are the ones you buy once and never buy again. Snake plant, golden pothos, spider plant, ZZ plant, cast iron plant, peace lily, Chinese evergreen, jade plant, heartleaf philodendron, rubber plant, aloe vera, and Boston…
How to grow asparagus fern well comes down to three things: bright indirect light, soil that stays evenly moist, and indoor warmth that holds between 55 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Get those right and the feathery sprays stay green for…
Bigroot geranium (Geranium macrorrhizum) is a rhizomatous, semi-evergreen perennial that builds a thick, weed-resistant carpet 30 to 45 cm tall and up to 61 cm (24 inches) wide per plant, and it takes dry shade beneath trees and shrubs better…
