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So recently I stepped into the world of battery gear after around 7 years of using petrol power tools for my business. I was tired of the noisy/smelly petrol engines and the fact you must be careful not to spill petrol on customers luxury driveways and pavers or on plants/lawn not to mention getting petrol on your skin.

Did you know that if done at the right time of the year you can divide and move native plants around your garden. Many plants you can take to with a shovel and split off new plants or move the entire plant to a new location. The key is having a big enough plant and doing it during the cooler months (May to August) is ideal as the moved plants need time to grow new roots and doing this during cooler months means allot less transplant/heat/moisture stress.

A garden is for all the senses and a scented garden can be enjoyed by everyone, even people who may be vision impaired or elderly. Even if mobility is an issue, you can enjoy the beautiful fragrance as some plants will have strong fragrance when in flower. Simply open a window and allow the sweet smell to drift in with the breeze.

So, you’ve just had a beautiful garden installed and it looks amazing unfortunately though without proper maintenance and care it won’t ever reach Its full potential or even worse become an eyesore in just a few short years.

We got a call well before planting season to visit a tired old verge in Leeming. The brief was to make it attractive not only to birds and insects but also to add street appeal.

Most people think of Banksia’s as shrubs and trees, but did you know that there are a large range of garden friendly WA ground cover Banksia’s?

The Podcast is a new podcast created by LIAWA to help educate and inform industry and the general public to help get a better understanding of what it is like to work with a professional landscaping company.

Here i have a chat with Nic Russel from LIAWA’s Green Thumbs Up Podcast about how i got into landscaping and what keeps me motivated and inspired.

It is important when we are choosing plants for our garden that are not endemic to our local area that we consider the potential for that plant to become a weed. Once a weed spreads it can be near impossible to eradicate if it has had long enough to naturalise. In allot of cases the weed is happier in its new environment than where it is native to because there are limited to no herbivores and pests and diseases. It is expensive for local and state governments to eradicate serious weeds, and some can never be brought under full control causing permanent damage to the environment that increases exponentially each year. If you go to beautiful places like Bell’s rapids 30 mins North of Perth, you can see how bad the damaging the bulb weed Watsonia is and how it would be nearly impossible to bring it under control as there is not enough money and resources to allocate controlling such a widespread infestation.

Having an edible garden in your backyard can serve you and your family in more ways than one. Edible gardens can be a thing of beauty but can also do wonders for your family’s mental and physical health.