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How-To: Propagating Native Plants with Nancy Shaw
How-ToIf you’re looking for magic in your life, look no further than vegetative propagation.
Cutting Back: Pruning for Renewal
How-ToGarden queen Jac Semmer shares expert advice on winter pruning for health and renewal.
Hot Tips: Planting, Transplanting and Dividing Plants
How-ToOur horticultural queen Jac Semmler has a guide to planting, transplanting and dividing plants - the perfect Autumn garden job!
Soils of Substance: A Guide by Jac Semmler
How-ToOur resident horticultural expert digs deep (geddit?) into the science of good garden soil.
How-To: Propagate Plants Using Soft-Tip Cuttings
Botanica, How-ToGo maximal plant! Learn how take soft-tip cuttings with horticultural expert Jac Semmler.
The Wonder of Seeds (and How to Successfully Germinate Them)
Botanica, How-ToOur horticultural expert, Jac Semmler, offers the ultimate seed-sowing guide.
Plants in the Post: An At-Home Project
How-ToYou've got (plant) mail!
Saving Seeds With Jac Semmler, Seed Queen
Botanica, How-ToSave those seeds! Jac Semmler will show you how.
How-To Grow Air Plants (Tillandsia spp.)
How-ToA guide to growing air plants with expert Bruce Dunstan.
How-To: Embroidered Plant Patches
How-ToWear your garden (and heart) on your sleeve!
Life, Death and Compost: A Guide (of Sorts)
How-ToIs there any better place to ponder existential questions than the compost heap?
How-To: Re-Purposed Plant Pots
How-ToNever buy new plant pots again!
How-to: Make an Insect Hotel
How-ToEncourage the good bugs to get busy in your garden!
How to Make Seed Bombs
How-ToLaunch a spontaneous floral attack with us!
Make a Nature Mobile with Beci Orpin
How-ToCraft Queen Beci Orpin shows us how to bring the beauty of nature indoors.
Make an Indoor Jungle Jar Garden
How-ToWant more plants indoors? Grow a jar jungle, in water. Now!
WATER KILLS: How to Water Indoor Plants
How-ToA guide to watering indoor plants
Make an Indoor Water Garden!
How-ToMove over terrariums, we're into jarrariums.
DIY: Indoor Succulent Garden
How-ToCreate your own indoors succulent garden with our DIY guide!
Grow a Micro Forest in Your Kitchen!
How-ToGrow a forest in your kitchen. YUM!
George, this is the way I do Bonsai
How-ToThis is not your average bonsai how-to!
The Manscape: Keeping Indoor Plants alive over Winter
How-ToAvoid your indoor jungle plants catching the man flu this winter
How to Propagate Hoyas
How-ToLearn how to propagate hoyas from the experts!
Workshop Alert! Natural Dyeing with Belinda Evans
How-ToTake a natural dye workshop with Belinda Evans this month!
Make your own Smudge Stick
How-ToCleanse and scent your space with a home made Australian native smudge stick.
Kids DIY: Make a Coral Reef Garden
How-ToLinda Ross shares a playful, planty, kids project.
How-To: Pressing Flowers with Beci Orpin
How-ToDesigner, illustrator, and creative all-star Beci Orpin has written a DIY for us. Yeah!
DIY: Make an Air Plant Frame
How-ToWant to impress your new flatmate/boyfriends parents/me? Make an airplant frame.
Composting: Give Nature a Prod
How-ToA very entertaining guide by Luke Quinn on composting cows and in-laws.
Drying Medicinal Herbs
How-ToLearn how to dry medicinal herbs for use during the cold winter months with Kirsten Bradley from Milkwood.
The Fragrant Pharmacy
How-ToAn introduction to making your own essential oil remedies (and a book review).
An Orchid Nerd’s Guide to Happy Plants
How-ToKeep your orchids happy and healthy with this guide by Katie Cartwright, The Planthunter's resident orchid nerd.
DIY: Dyeing With Turmeric
How-ToThe Planthunter's DIY guide to dyeing with turmeric. No bells, no whistles, just turmeric powder, vinegar, water and fabric. Voila!
DIY: Pretty Up Your Pots!
How-ToMake a woven pot cover out of old clothes with this DIY project inspired by this months theme…
Propagating Plants – Save some $$!
How-ToIf you want to make a garden but don’t have much money, propagation is your friend. What…
Do-It-Yourself Flower Power
How-ToLast week we published a story on the origins of the term ‘flower power’ by Lucy Kaldor.
Growing A Green Thumb: Part 1
How-ToBlack thumbs don’t exist. Nor do green thumbs. Thumbs are generally pinkish coloured and everyones’ looks the…
DIY Pomanders
How-ToI’m actually quite Grinch-like when it comes to Christmas celebrations. I never intended to be this way,…
Foraged Floral Wreaths
How-ToWreaths are a traditional part of Christmas celebrations, but they are also a beautiful thing to create…
How To Kill Plants
How-ToNot everyone is interested in hunting plants because they love them. Some may be interested in hunting…