Indoor Plants for Warm Rooms -
If your room is warm choose some of the plants listed below. But if you have central heating make sure there is enough humidity for them, they all nee...
Brown Olive Scale -
The brown olive scale (Saissetia akar) occurs throughout the State on a wide variety of host plants. It is best known as a pest of citrus but also com...
Tree and Shrub Propagation -
Propagation. Trees and shrubs are increased by: 1. Seed; 2. Division, layers or cuttings; 3. Budding and grafting. Seed: This method is slow and in so...
Companion Planting - Bad Combinations -
Most of us are aware that certain plants when planted near certain other plants, can lead to better than normal results. They tend to help each other ...
What Plants to Plant, and Where? -
Use tall-growing specimens sparingly unless they have a slender growth form, or unless you are anxious to blot out some unsightly view. Place tall-gro...
Lawn Plugs - Plugging -
Plugs are pieces of sod, one and a half or two inches or so in diameter, of creeping grasses. When planted, they quickly grow together and cover the g...
Medicinal Tea - Chamomile -
Chamomile is perhaps the queen of medicinal tea herbs. It is a beautiful annual (although there is one variety of chamomile that is a perennial plant)...
The Potato Moth -
The potato moth (Gnorimoschema operculella) is present in every potato-growing district in New South Wales and the caterpillars may cause considerable...
Soil for Groundcovers -
Ground covers which grow well create their own humus in time and so continue to flourish, but, if the plants appear to be suffering from malnutrition,...
