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Water Restrictions – How ironic
The local newspaper reads that Stage 3 Water Restrictions are now in force, No sprinklers, no hosing down concrete, no this, no that… Yet outside it’s pouring rain, 34mm later (~1.35 inches) there will be no need to water the lawn for at least a week now, even if it doesn’t rain! The weather man [...]
Top 8 Drought Resistant Plants for Australia
Each time I plan out a new section of garden I try to make it as low maintenance as possible. A garden bed that will grow happily with some water and fertiliser, some mulch to keep the weeds down and a prune every year or so and requiring minimal water to stay alive. So here [...]
Planting Drought Resistant Plants
Today I went shopping at the nursery for some new plants for my garden. At present it is very bare, as the other weekend we had a big clean up and removed all the dead branches, weeds and had a big prune of the trees and shrubs. It’s coming into summer (or wet season) up [...]
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My name is Ben, and I'm a self confessed gardenoholic. My other interests include growing plants, looking at plants, drinking coffee and taking the odd photo. My wife thinks I'm mad, but is getting into the whole garden thing, possibly going mad as well. In my spare time I'm a geologist (must be something about dirt and rocks...)- Get me on Twitter
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