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Improve sandy soils and Landscape Yard soils with Bentonite

Bulleen Art & Garden March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

If you have sandy soil, you will be well aware of their difficulties in holding both water and nutrition. Gardeners who live in Perth are used to dealing with this issue, and every garden centre, soil and landscaping yard there

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Reducing the heat with vegetation

Bulleen Art & Garden January 20, 2020July 22, 2020

As the temperature begins to rise and water conservation continues to impact on gardeners, people are watering less and are looking to find alternatives for vegetation. But by using some simple planting techniques you can help to decrease the heat

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Healthy Soil is Easy

Bulleen Art & Garden August 6, 2019November 17, 2020

Soil… most people just think of it as dirt, something to grow a few plants in, and maybe something to play in when you are young. However, (healthy) soil is a living, breathing organism, vital for the health and well-being

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Encouraging native beneficial insects

Bulleen Art & Garden June 25, 2019September 25, 2020

A healthy garden is full of life, from deep in the soil to the tree tops there should be fungi, bacteria, spiders, insects, worms, and innumerable other living creatures. These all cohabit in a generally harmonious way. Sometimes, however, a

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Insect Hotels

Bulleen Art & Garden June 25, 2019September 25, 2020

Beneficial insects are insects you want in your garden, either for pollinating or for predating on pest insects. To encourage them into your garden you can provide them with nesting and hibernating sites, if a garden strewn with dead branches

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Why your garden matters!

Bulleen Art & Garden June 20, 2019September 25, 2020

Every garden is its own (or is a unique but connected) ecosystem containing an extraordinary array of living organisms including plants, fungi, bacteria, microbes, insects and animals that all impact on the health and resilience of the living network. We

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What is Urban Ecology? – A few thoughts from BAAG’s CEO

Bulleen Art & Garden June 1, 2019September 25, 2020

I have been lucky to have been able to spend much of my working life surrounded by plants; studying and working in the natural environment, in local gardens and in garden centres. Like many of us, I love the opportunity

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Community Gardens

Bulleen Art & Garden May 28, 2019September 25, 2020

What is a community garden and what’s the fuss about? There are many fabulous advantages for your community to have a shared garden. If you’re curious, or thinking about getting involved, here are a few aspects of community gardening you

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Benefits of being in the garden

Bulleen Art & Garden May 12, 2019September 25, 2020

When I feel blue, or need a distraction from the stresses of life, I head into the garden! Time slows and my mood becomes lighter when my fingers are in the dirt and the intricacies of the world beyond my

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Plant Tiles

Bulleen Art & Garden April 17, 2019November 6, 2019

Plant tiles create stunning, alternative lawns and outdoor solutions instantly at half the cost of using traditional pots! Each tile covers the same area as ten traditional 100mm pots. As the plants grow, the roots bind the media together so

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Starting a gardening group

Bulleen Art & Garden April 12, 2019September 25, 2020

I love working in the garden. However when you have limited time and/or small children, sometimes the hard yakka you want to put into gardening is pushed down the list of priorities after changing nappies, making a kite, sticking feathers

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Renovating and sealing ceramic and terracotta garden pots

Bulleen Art & Garden April 1, 2019October 28, 2019

How to clean and disinfect old ceramic and terracotta garden pots Given enough time, even the best quality ceramic and terracotta garden pots can be marred by mould, dirt stains, watermarks and efflorescence (the salty white bloom that you sometimes

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Produce Gardening in Small Spaces

Bulleen Art & Garden March 21, 2019October 28, 2019

We do not all have access to large sunny gardens or even any garden at all. If you would like to grow food at home but feel like you don’t have the room, help is at hand. If you have

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Preparing your winter vegie garden

Bulleen Art & Garden February 19, 2019October 28, 2019

Autumn is the best time to plant your winter vegetable garden. As the weather cools and the rain starts to fall more frequently it is a pleasure to get back into the garden, remove spent summer crops and plant vegetables

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Fruit Tree Espaliering

Bulleen Art & Garden February 16, 2019October 28, 2019

Espaliering is a fantastic way to grow trees (including fruit trees) in smaller spaces. It does require regular work and is definitely not recommended for the lazy gardener or those scared of secateurs, however the effort is well worth it. Espaliering

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BAAG acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as traditional custodians of the land now known as Manningham. We pay our respects to Wurundjeri Elders past, present and emerging, and value their ongoing contribution to the cultural heritage of the area.

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