The Rebel Gardener

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 [...]

Over the last ten years the types of plants that I’ve been interested in has broadened and developed. The part of the world where I live has now been in drought for about the last 12 years. Now when I use the word drought I use it in reference to the fact the our average [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]