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Geelong Botanic Gardens

Rebel Gardener — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:45:13 +0000

The Geelong Botanic Gardens is well over one hundred years old. A new addition to the gardens though is a very contemporary water wise garden full of some very drought tolerant plants. The garden is made of drought tolerant plants from both here in Australia and around the world. These include cactus and succulent species, [...]

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Garden Plants

Rebel Gardener — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:58:13 +0000

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 [...]

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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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