Enduring Flower Garden: Placeholder©
Learn everything required to grow a low maintenance, high resilience flowering shrub garden. To purchase, click here.
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1 / Introduction
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2 / The Plant Palette
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3 / Sourcing Plants
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Spreadsheet introduction
Learn to use the spreadsheet provided with the guide to make budgeting & plant ordering a breeze.
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Measuring your site
Learn how to measure your site so you know how many square meters (m²) to enter into the spreadsheet.
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Propagation and Planting Density
Save money by staging the work on your garden and dividing & replanting plants as they grow.
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Ordering from suppliers
An overview on ordering your plants from plant suppliers.
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Ordering Terracottem
Learn about Terracottem & decide if it’s a product you’d like to use in your garden.
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4 / Site Familiarisation
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5 / Soil Testing
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6 / Weeding Strategy
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Introduction to Clearing
An overview of the Weeding Strategy/Site Clearing chapter.
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Identifying Weeds
In this lesson I introduce you to the common weeds found in the ACT & Southern Tablelands gardens.
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Broadscale Weeding
Learn the easiest way to clear a large area of weeds with relatively low effort.
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What to keep?
In this lesson we look at how to decide which plants to remove and which plants to keep in your garden.
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7 / Soil Preparation
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pH Remediation
Learn how to get the right balance of Acidity & Alkalinity in your soil.
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Decompaction, organics & gypsum
Learn to de-compact your soil, add organics to improve the soil properties & how to apply gypsum if your soil will respond to it.
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Hydrophobicity
Learn how to make sure your soil is able to absorb and hold water effectively.
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Mulch
Learn the best practice mulching method for this guide.
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Drainage & Soil Structure
Learn how the works from this chapter improve the characteristics of your soil.
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8 / Planting
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Planting Arrangements
Learn about this different approaches to digging holes & setting out plants for different effects.
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Planting Day Pt. 1
Things to do on the day of planting. Part 1.
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Planting Day Pt. 2
Things to do on the day of planting. Part 2.
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Planting Day Pt. 3
Things to do on the day of planting. Part 3.
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9 / Expectations
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10 / Plant Propagation
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11 / Additional Resources