Hellebores

HELLEBORES
Peter Leigh from Post Office Farm Nursery will be featuring on Gardening Australia ABC Television 27th June. A great insight into hellebores from a top Australian Hellebore breeder.

The 2009 Post Office Farm Mail Order catalogue for Hellebores is now online. Special Hellebore sale days in July and August see the Post Office Farm Hellebore Web Site for details.

For all the latest in the garden visit us at www.nurseriesonline.com.au

Australian Native Plants

Darwinia macrostegia or Mondurup Bell, is just one of the many Grafted Australian Native Plants available from Vaughans Australian Plants.

Includes : Acacia, Acmena Smithii Variegata, Adenanthos, Banksia , Dampiera, Dianella, Diploleona, Dryandra, Eremophila, Corymbia (Syn Eucalyptus) Citriodora, Geleznowia , Grevillea, Grevillea Weeping (Grafted), Isopogan, Lomandra, Pennisetum Pennstripe, Pimelia Physodes 'Qualup Bell', Ptilotus Exaltatus 'Phoenix', Verticordia Grandis. All available by mail order or from the nursery.

WEB: www.vaughansnativeplants.com

Garrya Eliptica or 'Silk Tassel Tree'

Garrya elliptica or 'Silk Tassel Tree' is a native to Oregon and California.

Garrya ellipticta is a bushy evergreen tree or shrub grown for graceful silvery catkins, which appear during winter and spring.

Garrya elliptica are tolerant of a range of conditions and are generally a hardy plant. Some protection from extremly cold winds is desirable.

Garrya elliptica will grow to 15ft. The form Garrya Elliptictia 'Evie' is a compact form, more suited to coastal conditions than some others, while Garrya Elliptica 'James Roof' ia a strong vigorous form of the Silk Tassel Tree with extra long catkins to 20 cm in winter.

Try Yamina Rare Plants (Victoria)

Dwarf Coconut Trees

Did you know that you can buy Dwarf Coconut Trees?

Malay Green Dwarf, Malay Golden Dwarf, Red Spicata Dwarf, Nias Yellow Dwarf and Malay Red Dwarf are all now available.

Germinated Dwarf Coconuts now available from Cactus Island via mail order Australia Wide (except W.A. & TAS). Un-germinated coconuts available for W.A.

Dwarf Coconuts start fruiting at only 3 years of age and fruit is easily harvested.

Dwarf Coconuts are also resistant to the Lethal Yellowing Disease!

NEED MORE INFORMATION visit our Coconut Page

Container Gardening

Container gardening is popular for both aesthetic and practical reasons. 

We grow some plants in pots because we like to shift them around, in view when they are looking good, hidden from site when not so good. 

Grow herbs in containers near the kitchen is very practical. Fresh herbs outside the kitchen door are great for the cook. 

We have also placed pots or containers in the garden to add height and interest, just be careful with drainage.

As we like to grow 'difficult and hard to find plants' we also grow some of our 'collectors items' such as fritillaria in pots so we know exactly what's going on with them.

Some of our Australian native plants such as Qualup Bells (pimelea physodes) also do well in pots.

Sheraz Janif from The Outdooremporium has put together his thoughts on container gardening, we find his approach informative, interesting and practical. Read the full article.

Attention Landscapers and Retailers.New Wholesale Catalogues and Specials

Alderwood Nursery have just released their June list.

Visit them at www.alderwoodnursery.com.au

Blerick Tree Farm have some nice advanced Box Hedging (1m tall)

Visit them at www.dialatree.com.au

Downes Wholesale Nursery has just released some specials including Acmena smithii Sublime,  Gleditsia triacanthos Sunburst and Shademaster, Fraxinus, Michelia doltsopa and others....

Visit them at www.downesnursery.com.au 

Remember to check out our wholesale section  on a regular basis, lots of new information every week.

We also have some new Garden Planters and Pot suppliers, check out the details coming soon to www.nurseriesonline.com.au

New Wholesale Nursery an Updated Catalogue and Compost Bins

A little bit of news for everyone, Landscapers, Retail Nurseries, Councils and Developers will be interested in two new nursery catalogues. One an update, one new. Home gardeners might like to follow our compost bin trial.....

New Wholesale Nursery

This week we add  Blerick Tree Farm

Blerick Tree Farm are growers of advanced and semi advanced trees from 25cm pots through to 100l bags. They also stock a range of citrus, grasses, hedging and other landscape lines. Blerick Tree Farm welcome trade clients including nurseries, landscapers, developers, councils, schools and golf courses. Find them in our Victorian Wholesale Section

Don and Peter Teese have just updated the Yamina Rare Plants Catalogue

A great range of Magnolias, Grafted Japanese Maples and many other sometimes hard to find plants. Find them at www.yaminarareplants.com.au

After years of making compost the traditional way, in three heaps, and turning with a fork, and a few tries at the static round plastic bins we decided it was time to try one of the newer designs. We went looking for a tumbler, but found a new type of bin. 

So we decided to try the aerobic type compost bin. We are running a trial on the compost bin over the next few months, using lots of grass clippings, autumn leaves, some paper, kitchen scraps and some other garden waste. We are layering wet and dry material as suggested. You can follow the trial on our web site on our compost bin review page 

We are interested in hearing your experiences with compost bins. Especially compost tumblers and aerobic type systems.

We still love our worm farm, lots of great liquid fertilizer, check out our worm farm page......