Grow A Butterfly Garden
Here's our quick guide to NZ butterflies, plus how to look after them. Read on for tips on how to grow swan plants, for the full Monarch experience!
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Illawarra Flame Tree
A stunning red-flowering tree. This tree loses its leaves just before flowering and, in a good season, can be a towering pillar of red.
Firewheel Tree (Stenocarpus sinuatus)
At blooming time, this rainforest tree looks as if it’s lit up from within by the red pinwheel flowers that cluster among its branches.
Fried egg tree (Gordonia axillaris)
On the borderline between a tree and a shrub, but able to be pruned into a tree-like shape (which shows off its attractive bark), gordonia’s ‘fried egg’ flowers can be close to 10cm across.
Jacaranda
This glorious South American native usually flowers when the tree is bare of leaves, which enhances the magnificent effect.
Magnolia
Another tree that usually blooms on bare branches, every deciduous magnolia is a garden aristocrat.
How to Propagate Plants, by Layering
‘Layering’ is a type of plant propagation where new stems remain attached to the parent plant, while they develop their own roots. Here's how to do it and get free plants!
Get an early start for your heat-lover vegies
A challenge with growing heat-loving vegies is getting started early enough to give them a long enough growing season. In cooler areas it can be a nail-biting race against winter when you’re waiting for your harvest, so get ahead of the game!
What's eating my plants?
Learn how to diagnose exactly which pests are chewing on your plants.
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