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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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Callistemon salignus

Rebel Gardener — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:31:34 +0000

Callistemon salignus is a bottlebrush that is probably the least spectacular of the bottlebrushes when in flower. The reason why I’ve included it here is because it has so many other special qualities. It grows fairly vigorously, it is very drought tolerant, can be grown in heavy soils that don’t drain very well and the [...]

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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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