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How To Use A Compost Mate – video
Angus demonstrates a nifty tool.....a very effective way to aerate your compost or worm farm. With just a few minutes of light work each week you’ll create the...
Worm Farm Blankets
This video explains why it is desirable to use some sort of blanket on the top layer of worm farm. It also looks at the options for blankets for worm farms. [gallery link="file"...
Plant propagation by leaf cuttings – video
This video takes you step by step through how to propagate plants from leaf cuttings (where you have a plant species that is suitable for the technique). Not every plant is capable...
Hairpin banksia (Banksia spinulosa) to attract small nectar feeding birds to your garden video
This video is all about how to attract small nectar feeding birds to your garden. The hairpin banksia (Banksia spinulosa) is one of the best Australian plants for this purpose....
Prickly Moses wattle Acacia ulicifolia to attract small birds to your garden
This video is about Australian plants that will provide protection and shelter for smaller birds that you may want to attract to your garden. Many Australian wattles such as...
Trench Layering of Callistemon -video
How to do trench layering on a bottlebrush plant step by step. This is an incredibly simple method of plant propagation that requires very little equipment. The basis is that you...
Kangaroo paw cut flower tip video
This is a video about how you can use kangaroo paws (Anigozanthos species and hybrids) for indoor decoration as cut flowers. If you cut the flowers halfway up the stems when the...
Banksia ‘Giant Candles’
This video introduces one of the largest flowering of all the banksias, and one that is fabulous for the garden in temperate regions that are free of heavy frost. It is reputedly a...
Long Stem Cutting of Rosemary -video
This is a video about a specialised type of stem cutting that I refer to as a long stem cutting because it is made much longer than a normal stem cutting. The technique is great...
Creating an Australian Garden book -video
This is a video about Angus Stewart's book Creating an Australian Garden. This book is a guide for people who would like to create garden based on Australian plants. It covers all...
Banksia plagiocarpa – Hinchinbrook Island Banksia
This video describes the Hinchinbrook Island Banksia (Banksia plagiocarpa), a fantastic medium sized shrub that grows well in Australia in coastal areas from Queensland to...
Angus’s Outback Adventure
This video is all about a road trip Angus Stewart and friends did in 2011 to the NSW outback. The trip was done in the aftermath of a couple of seasons of really good rain. So...
Gastrolobium (Brachysema) Brown Butterfly -video
This is a video about an outstanding Australian ground covering plant and how to use and grow it in your garden. Botanically speaking it belongs to the genus Gastrolobium which has...
Westringia ‘Flat and Fruity’ -video
This is a video about a prostrate ground covering form of coastal rosemary (Westringia fruticosa). This species has a well deserved reputation as a tough, adaptable and reliable...
Seed Propagation -video
This is a video on the practical aspects of propagating plants from seed. It will show you step by step how to sow and look after seed from a variety of plant species and differing...
Root cuttings -video
This video is designed to teach you the step by step processes used to propagate plants from root cuttings. The plant demonstrated is the Australian bluebell (Wahlenbergia...
Plant propagation by layering
This video teaches the viewer how to propagate plants by layering. This technique is like propagation from stem cuttings but the cutting is left on the plant to take root before it...
Plant propagation by stem cuttings
This is a video that shows you step by step how to propagate plants by stem cuttings. A very wide range of plants can be propagated this way, from woody pants to soft stemmed...
Banksia ‘Birthday Candles’
This video is about the outstanding Australian plant cultivar Banksia Birthday Candes, a dwarf plant that is very suitable for smaller gardens such as courtyards and balconies. It...