Growing Guides

Coastal planting: what survives salt and wind - Plant Drop

Coastal planting: what survives salt and wind

An exposed coastal block is really two or three sites stacked together. This guide covers what belongs in the front row that takes the salt, what to plant behind it,...

Coastal planting: what survives salt and wind

An exposed coastal block is really two or three sites stacked together. This guide covers what belongs in the front row that takes the salt, what to plant behind it,...

Planting an advanced tree: how to get it established - Plant Drop

Planting an advanced tree: how to get it establ...

Advanced trees fail at planting and in the first two summers, not in transit. A practical guide to hole width, backfill, staking, deep watering, mulch, and telling transplant shock apart...

Planting an advanced tree: how to get it establ...

Advanced trees fail at planting and in the first two summers, not in transit. A practical guide to hole width, backfill, staking, deep watering, mulch, and telling transplant shock apart...

Australian native trees for shade: what to plant near a house - Plant Drop

Australian native trees for shade: what to plan...

Which Australian native trees actually make good shade on a suburban block, why big forest gums belong on acreage, how to tell an angophora from a eucalypt, and the setbacks...

Australian native trees for shade: what to plan...

Which Australian native trees actually make good shade on a suburban block, why big forest gums belong on acreage, how to tell an angophora from a eucalypt, and the setbacks...

Crepe myrtle: choosing a variety and pruning it properly - Plant Drop

Crepe myrtle: choosing a variety and pruning it...

A practical guide to crepe myrtle for real landscape jobs: flower colour and size by Indian Summer variety, why the fauriei hybrids resist powdery mildew, spacing, bark as a winter...

Crepe myrtle: choosing a variety and pruning it...

A practical guide to crepe myrtle for real landscape jobs: flower colour and size by Indian Summer variety, why the fauriei hybrids resist powdery mildew, spacing, bark as a winter...

Evergreen or deciduous: choosing for shade in summer and sun in winter - Plant Drop

Evergreen or deciduous: choosing for shade in s...

Deciduous trees on the north give you summer shade and winter sun; evergreens on a boundary give you privacy that does not take a season off. A practical guide to...

Evergreen or deciduous: choosing for shade in s...

Deciduous trees on the north give you summer shade and winter sun; evergreens on a boundary give you privacy that does not take a season off. A practical guide to...

Hedging plants for Australian conditions - Plant Drop

Hedging plants for Australian conditions

Formal or informal, what to plant on a coastal or shaded site, why buxus is a risk in humid summers, a spacing table by mature width, and the tip pruning...

Hedging plants for Australian conditions

Formal or informal, what to plant on a coastal or shaded site, why buxus is a risk in humid summers, a spacing table by mature width, and the tip pruning...