01 Apr
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 1st April 2025
Egyptian Walking Onions / Tree Onions (Allium × proliferum)
Family: Amaryllidaceae (includes Amaryllis, Agapanthus, Clivia and Scadoxus)
Genus: Allium (includes onions, leeks, garlics, chives)
Botanical/Binomial..
30 Mar
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Title image above was created by Kristi Ellinopoullos from images copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
First published 30th March 2025
Introduction to the Air-Pot Bonsai Training Pot
Air-Pot® bonsai training pots are phenomenal containers designed specifically for bonsai enthusiasts:
• their sq..
29 Mar
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 29th March 2025
Using an Air-Pot® requires a different approach to that of regular pots, and I wrote of this here.
In this older post I mentioned how quite a bit of medium will fall through the bottom until a natural bridge form..
03 Feb
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Art piece and image above is copyright © Helen Flynn
First published 3rd February 2025
Hello everyone, and Happy (belated!) New Year! I plan to make these newsletters monthly or bimonthly from now on just so you know, though future ones may not be as prolific as this one turned out to be. (You can..
18 Jan
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Art piece and image above is copyright © Helen Flynn
First published 18th January 2025
I just want to share people’s beautiful things with the world — like this one and this one — and believe me this amazing glass tile mosaic is no exception!
When pen-pal Helen from Melbourne sent me the photo bel..
16 Dec
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Title image above is copyright © Peter from Nowra
First published 16th 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..
28 Sep
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Title image above is copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
First published 28th 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..
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..
02 Feb
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Title image above is copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
All text and images are copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
First reproduced here 2nd February 2023
When the tap root reaches the base, increased air in the growing medium dehydrates the tip, pruning it and stimulating lateral root b..
13 Jan
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
(This article was originally published 10th January 2023 here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 13th January 2023.
I noticed random jujube trees looking a bit ‘not right’ one day in November 2022. And then almost overnigh..
04 Nov
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
First published 4th November 2022
Introduction
People new to the growing of tomatoes may see one variety described as determinate and another as indeterminate, but are none the wiser, as these terms are not always defined at the time. Going f..