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GROW WHAT WHERE – A BRILLIANT GARDEN REFERENCE

Rebel Gardener — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:58:48 +0000

If you’d like to discover the Magic of Australian Native Plants then GROW WHAT WHERE will make your Plant Selection Simple and Easy so you Can’t Go Wrong . . When I first came across the gardening book “Grow What Where” it was at a very opportune time. We’d just bought a new house that [...]

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Clay Soil

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:09:09 +0000

Gardening in Clay Soil is often regarded as somewhat of a handicap by most gardeners, especially those gardeners that have preference for growing plants that do require a well drained soil. Most of the popular West Australian natives and South African Proteas that naturally grow in sand and well draining gravels and loams have a [...]

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Banksia Oblongifolia

Rebel Gardener — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:59:23 +0000

Banksia Oblongifolia, native to Queensland and New South Wales, is another Banksia that isn’t often seen in cultivation and home gardens. I first came across it about 10 years ago and planted it in my mother’s garden where it grew into a narrow spindly shrub about 1.5 m tall that probably only ever had about [...]

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Pruning your Alyogyne Huegelii

Rebel Gardener — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:19:33 +0000

How to Prune Alyogyne Huegelii and other Australian Native Plants. From time to time I get emails about pruning Australian Native Plants and the feeling I quite often get is that there are many gardeners that have a misconception that Australian Natives don’t like to be pruned. And this really couldn’t be further from the [...]

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Growing Agave Attenuata in a Pot

Rebel Gardener — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:56:44 +0000

Agaves are plants that lend themselves to be easily grown in pots and Agave attenuata is no exception. Because of it’s drought tolerance it’s a plant that won’t drop dead if you forget to water it every second day over summer. Another great thing about Agave attenuata is that it’s really easy to propagate from [...]

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Eremophila “Big Poly”

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:48:33 +0000

When I first came across Eremophila Big Poly (E Bignoniiflora x E Polyclada) I thought of it more as just another addition to my collection and just grew it in a pot for about 2 years. It wasn’t until I planted it into the ground though, that it actually came into it’s own. The first [...]

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Make your own Rain Barrel

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:49:04 +0000

Rain Barrels are these days becoming very popular with gardeners as they come to realize the benefits of using rainwater in their garden as opposed to tap water. One important fact about rain barrels is that they can fill quite quickly with rainwater and then overflow, so in some respects they aren’t the most efficient [...]

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How to Grow a Windbreak

Rebel Gardener — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:38:54 +0000

Growing a windbreak can help drought proof your garden and one of the quickest ways to achieve this result is to water the plants you’ve selected as your windbreak much as possible. So what I’m doing is using water and in the case rainwater to ultimately save water in my garden. One of the things [...]

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Bonsai Bottle Tree

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:26:03 +0000

In my article about “How to Bonsai Australian native plants” I wrote about my Brachychiton rupestris, aka the Queensland Bottle Tree, that I’d been growing in a pot for sometime. I was contemplating turning it into a Bonsai. Now as I’ve said before I’ve always liked Bonsai but never had the patience to do it [...]

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Agave potatorum

Rebel Gardener — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:28:31 +0000

Agave potatorum is the first Agave I ever bought, as I remember I was attracted to the bluey coloured leaves. The great thing about this Agave is that it is really easy to propagate from. It grows lots of pups and has been propagated from now about 3 times. In the photo above the original [...]

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Agave attenuata

Rebel Gardener — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:24:27 +0000

Agave attenuata certainly is an Agave that has become quite popular in Australian gardens in recent times. It’s large fleshy leaves really are quite attractive. The only problem with this plant is that as it grows a trunk it tends to fall over. Because of this though it is probably best to give it some [...]

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Transplanting Plants

Rebel Gardener — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:20:02 +0000

Transplanting Plants – How to do it Correctly. A while ago I wrote an article about how I transplanted a Grevillea Caloundra Gem and despite doing nearly everything wrong, still got a successful outcome. Today though I thought it might be much better to write about transplanting plants the correct way. Now before I start [...]

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Bonsai

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:28:10 +0000

How to Bonsai Australian Native Plants The art of Bonsai is something that has always interested me but was something I was always reluctant to take up mainly because of my lack of patience. Recently though I came across a gardening blog with a video of a Banksia Ericifolia Bonsai. It was amazing to hear [...]

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Mulch

Rebel Gardener — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:34:52 +0000

Organic Mulch vs Inorganic Mulch I’ve always believed that no matter what you do in life then you should use a common sense approach. So as far as gardening goes it stands to reason that common sense should also prevail. Having said that, it never amazes me how some so called gardening professionals appear to [...]

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Free Plants, Propagating Plants from Cuttings.

Rebel Gardener — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:34:00 +0000

Do you really need a Greenhouse or Heated Propagating trays? There are plenty of articles and websites on the internet where you can learn how to propagate plants from cuttings. Most require some degree of expertise, a greenhouse or heated propagating tray and a bit of an investment in your cost and time. But here’s [...]

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How to make your Drought Tolerant Plants even more Drought Tolerant.

Rebel Gardener — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:34:05 +0000

A plant’s drought tolerance in something that is not easy to quantify, as there are so many factors that can determine this. So to compare one plant’s drought tolerance against another is not always a simple thing to do. The way I go about it though is to group them into three classifications. 1. One [...]

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My 7 Favourite Drought Tolerant, Australian Natives Plants.

Rebel Gardener — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:58:31 +0000

The words “drought tolerant plants” have different meaning to different gardeners. I once knew a gardener who believed if a plant was considered to be drought tolerant it meant that once you’d planted it you could then walk away and never have to water it again. The funny thing about it, in some respects this [...]

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How to Stake Your Plants

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:02:20 +0000

How to Stake Your Plants so that they Eventually can Support Themselves Probably the main reason why you need to stake your plants is because of the wind. I suppose most gardeners also think of the wind as their enemy especially in areas that are exposed to strong winds for an extended period of time. [...]

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How NOT to Transplant your Plants

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:54:00 +0000

How close can you go to killing a plant without actually killing it? Before I actually wrote this article I thought long and hard as to whether other gardeners would actually believe my story or if I should try to change some of the detail to make it sound more believable. In the end I [...]

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Phosphorus Toxicity

Rebel Gardener — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:11:33 +0000

Phosphorus Toxicity in Proteaceae Garden Plants This is the story about a mistake I made in my new garden that for me at the time, was about as devastating as it could get. The remarkable thing about it though was as time went on I was nearly glad that I’d made that mistake. When we [...]

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