Overheard anyone muttering about the price of plants these days? It’s easy to jump to conclusions about how easy it would be to stick a few twigs in a nice pot and start your own growing concern.

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Now is the time to get busy in the garden and do the groundwork to ensure a garden fit for our hot, dry summers. It may seem a lot of work to some, but failure is no fun and success is assured if the following five elements are satisfied.

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Low growing plants are as vital to the garden as trees. While trees provide shelter and shade, low plants fill the picture at ground level and, as well adding colour, form and interest, they help to maintain even soil temperatures and suppress weeds.

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Safely reusing greywater is a great way to minimise your reliance on mains water or reduce rainwater consumption.

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"Hardy, drought tolerant and harsh conditions" – recently the most used words in the gardener’s vocabulary. How does the gardener pick what will truly survive?

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About 70% of the green cover in our cities is in home gardens (Good Gardens with less water, Handreck K, CSIRO Publishing 2008, p3) and plants turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

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Today we are spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting plants. Whilst this allows for greater creativity on the part of garden enthusiasts, it can be confronting for those who are new to gardening or only gardening from necessity.

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It’s that time of year! The deciduous trees have dropped all their leaves and it’s cold and wet. Evergreen plants have the show to themselves.

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Looking for a really hardy plant that looks fabulous and has stunning flowers? Yucca is your plant. They originate from the hot dry parts of North and Central America as well as the West Indies. In fact, the Yucca is the State flower of New Mexico.

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You’ve probably noticed a hardy, strappy green-leaved plant topped by masses of small white flowers in streetscapes around Adelaide recently. It is a Dietes. Dietes is a very hardy plant suited to our climate, giving masses of colour in late Spring-early Summer.

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