15 Dec
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Title image above is copyright © Peter from Nowra
First published 19th December 2024
Peter from Nowra (hi Peter, thank you so much!) emailed me this photo of his fiddle leaf fig, and I just stared in amazement.
Fiddle leaf fig in 38 L Air-Pot Container
copyright © Peter from Nowra
I said that tha..
13 Dec
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Art piece above is copyright © Sandra Johnson.
Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
First published 13th December 2024
Hello everyone, it has been a long time since I have sent one of these! But with just over two weeks until New Year, I have made my apparently once-a-year newsl..
13 Dec
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Art piece above is copyright © Sandra Johnson.
Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
(This article was originally posted here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 13th December 2024.
This is the final post for the year, and what better subject to end the year wi..
13 Dec
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
The Wollongong Botanic Garden occupies 27 hectares (67 acres) and features an extensive range of collections from succulents, to native Australian temperate rainforest, cycads, palms, ferns, azaleas, roses and more.
Below are a random collection..
13 Dec
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Art piece above is copyright © Deborah Redwood.
Title photo above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
The Wollongong Botanic Garden runs a sculpture competition every two years, and the 2023 winner was this stunning piece by Deborah Redwood called Banksia.
Please do hear and see her story in the vi..
13 Dec
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
The Wollongong Botanic Garden posts were inspired by a fellow cactus and succulent nut, the wonderful Helen in Melbourne — a customer and now regular pen-pal! (Hello Helen if you are reading this!)
It came up in conversation that we both happene..
28 Sep
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Title image above is copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
First published 29th September 2024
Using an Air-Pot® requires a different approach to that of regular pots, and doing this ensures you get the most out of your Air-Pot®. This approach concerns:
the growing medium;
watering, and;
nutrie..
22 May
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
This is a quick little post to complement any Dichondra repens and/or gotu kola listings on this site. What is the point in saying (in those listings) how similar the two are at first glance, without actually helping people tell the difference..
15 Mar
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
(This article was originally posted here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 15th March 2023.
Have you ever repotted a plant and wondered why the bottom of the potting mix is so incredibly saturated compared to the rest, de..
06 Mar
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Title image above is copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
First published 6th March 2023
Hello everyone, how we are already in March…?!
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Item 1: New Site
This one is first as it is the least important. But around the turn of the new year I was really getting fed up with the previous tw..
03 Mar
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Title image above is attributed to Oregon Department of Forestry, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Backstory
I first heard of biochar maybe back in the early 2000s. It sounded really, really interesting, but I was somewhat put off by the $120 (or thereabo..
28 Feb
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Title image above is attributed to Mike Jones, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
(This article was originally posted here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 28th February 2023.
Please note that this post is somewhat technical, and assumes some of the writing done on photosyn..