Category: Landscaping

Summer is a difficult time for your garden. A lot of the most popular plant choices just weren’t designed for the Australian climate, let along the baking summer sun. With plenty of water and care, you can get introduced species to thrive all year long, but if you’re tired of all that maintenance, or you

Summer is a bit of an awkward time for your backyard. It’s a time when it gets the most use, but it’s also a time when it has to deal with the most challenging conditions of the year. You need to prepare your backyard for the onslaught of the activity and heat if it’s going

If you thought a stunning landscape design for your front yard was out of reach on your own, think again. It’s not only possible to make your home sparkle from the street, it’s also easy to do, and it makes for a refreshing and satisfying DIY project any time of the year. You know what

Doing your own landscaping can be a lot of fun, and it’s a great way to get creative and inject some brand new life into an outdoor area. These days there are so many different styles, materials and options to choose from, which means the sky is the limit. If you can imagine it, you

There’s only one thing more dreary and dark in Winter than the weather – your garden. Your best plants are stripped bare, heavy winds and rain wreak havoc on your favourite beds, and the only colours you can see are grey, black and blue. It’s a sorry sight and often makes you wish you could

Brace yourselves, winter is coming! For many, the Australian winter is a great time to snuggle up by a warm fire and enjoy the pitter-patter of rain on the roof. But for green thumbs, and those who love spending time in their gardens, it can be a difficult and frustrating time of year. Trees get stripped down,

As housing density increases and backyards become smaller, spaces for vegetation are at a premium. More and more homeowners have had into come up with new ways to introduce plants into their properties. We don’t have the same amount of ground space that we used to, so the obvious answer is to go vertical. Green

We are pretty lucky in Australia. As soon as December rolls around, we can count on getting our fair share of long summer days full of blue skies, balmy nights and all the fun activities that those conditions allow. We live on the driest inhabited continent on Earth, which is great for those of us