Gardening

Better homes and gardens

Australia’s No.1 Magazine for people who love their homes. Every month this magazine is full of inspiration, information and practical advice for the house and garden. Plus you’ll always have a complete reference guide to the TV show.  

This definitive book includes all 78 known species of banksia. It explains how to find, recognise and grow them, including dealing with pests and diseases. All species are photographed, and the tables list which banksias are grown for particular purposes such as show flowers, groundcovers and shady places.
 

Published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Organic gardener comes out 6 times a year, and is full of news, coming events, letters from readers with responses to problems from staff, articles full of advice on a range of subjects of a practical nature as well as informative articles.  Website has an article archive, factsheets and much more.

Rather than a series of recipes for perfect planting, this book is described as a "menu of suggestions" from which you can choose combinations to suit your own tastes and conditions. It also features an inspirational section on planting ideas and styles.

Combining beauty with practicality, this is a fully updated edition of Australian gardening legend Shirley Stackhouse's classic book which was first published over 20 years ago. Shirley provides lots of commonsense advice a gardener needs from month to month.  Her own charming drawings illustrate this inspiring and entertaining book.

This book takes you on a tour of twenty of Australia's most beautiful gardens.  It showcases the talent of some of our leading designers such as Paul Bangay, Catherine Shield, Peter Fudge, Dean Herald, Jamie Durie, Kevin Taylor and Kate Cullity. Discover what inspired them to become garden designers and learn how they approach a design brief, assess a site and solve design problems for all styles of garden from courtyard to seashore, country to urban. 

Mary Horsfall 2008 “Creating your eco-friendly garden shows you how to develop an environmentally friendly garden for little cost.… Water efficiency, biodiversity, soil conservation, use of native and biodiversity friendly plants, organic methods, use of recycled materials and avoidance of environmental weeds are themes that feature strongly throughout the book… “ Backcover

WJ Lewis & D. McE Alexander 2nd Ed. 2008 “Grafting and budding: a practical guide for fruit and nut plants and ornamentals is an updated and expanded version of Grafting & budding fruit & nut trees and now includes the grafting of ornamental plants.

“Turn the compost bin upside down with this natural Six-Way Compost Gardening System for keeping compost heaps right in the garden, rather than in some dark corner behind the garage.