Category Archives: Plant Care Tips

Tip of the Week – Focus on the Amorphophallus

Below is our old Amorphophallus video from a year ago. If you watch the two videos and you see how much the Titan Arum has grown! Amorphophallus species give you some of the weirdest and most amazing plants on our planet. There are 200 species, many of which are in cultivation. They vary in size […]

Tip of the Week – Focus on Garden Sustainability

Sustainability means to be able to keep a system going long term without exhausting its or your resources and then falling in a heap ie your garden, yourself or other enterprises. Here are some things to consider 1. YOU. Your garden is there for your peace & joy. It brings you back to nature and […]

Tip of the Week – Vermicaste and How to Use it

Did you know applying vermicaste (worm poo) onto your plants is very beneficial to them…& even more so during winter. You rarely hear about this because the big fertiliser companies have all the advertising dollars & also pay the ‘garden gurus’ …yes they need to get paid. Vermicaste has billions of beneficial plant microbes that […]

Tip of the Week – Focus on Anthuriums

Get some more love in your life!! …..simply by equipping yourself with a place for Anthuriums. Anthuriums are known as Love Hearts because both the leaves and the flowers are shaped like a heart! Also called Flamingo Flower. Anthuriums are one of the worlds most popular flowers. Anthurium andraeanum is the most well known and […]

How to Create a Inspiring Garden in a Small Space

Here is a video showing just how easy it is to develop an inspiring garden in a very small space. The backyard we visited in the video is only 10 meters by 5 meters!! Yet within this small space there are over 300 very interesting plants!!! Watch the video above and let it speak for […]

Tip of the Week – Focus on Tropical Plants Part 2

Dividing into more Plants Did you know that many tropical plants can be divided to give you more plants? Anthuriums and Thai Aglaonemas are good examples. Some Gingers, Alocasias, Caladiums, Bromeliads, some Ferns and many others can be divided as well. Some of us are a bit wary about dividing plants thinking that the plant […]

Tip of the Week – Focus on Tropical Plants for the Cold

Part of 1 Focus on Tropical Plants Part 2 Here >>Link<< Tropical plants & sub tropical plants hold a lot of interest for plant lovers. That’s because of their amazing colour, shapes and textures. …not to mention their interesting life cycles. Tropical plants are high energy which you can utilise to energise yourself! What Tropical […]

Tip of the Week – Focus on Gingers

There is a vast array of plants known as Gingers. They are famous not only for their attractive floral arrangements but also as a source of culinary pleasure ….. often having well known health benefits. They can be small or large structures with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes. The incredible Torch Gingers are just a […]

Tip of the Week – Focus on Bamboo

  Bamboos are some of the fastest growing plants in the world…one recorded at 3cm per hour!! They are of immense economic importancein Asia for centuries not only as an ornamental but as a source of food (Bamboo shoots) and as a construction material. Bamboos grow on rhizomes so if you cut it down it […]

Tip of the Week – Focus on Beehive Gingers

Beehive Gingers have fascinated people through the ages with their unbelievably unusual and attractive long lasting colourful basal cones and luxuriant foliage. Named Beehive due to the similar shape to a Skep Beehive. The leaves are long and oblong with that lushe tropical look. Species They occur naturally in Eastern Asia and are in the […]