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This garden in a semi exposed coastal location has been transformed with careful preparation and clever plant choices to suit the soil and climate conditions.

Many of our gum trees are flowering now in Noosa. They are too big for the small urban garden, but get to know the ones near you. They are the bones of the vegetation in your area and indicate what other plants might do well in your garden.

Plant then mulch, or mulch then plant? This simple method makes mulching around new plants easy.

Urban Wildlife Gardens was delighted to be one of the recipients in the latest round of the Cooroy RSL and Citizens Club’s Community Donations Program.

White Oak is a North Queensland species that has recently become weedy in Noosa.

Join us in a visit to a coastal garden at Castaways Beach, created one year ago.

The Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta) has taken centre stage this month and continues to light up the bushland and large gardens around Noosa. And here are some more of our local plants that performed in October.

Recent hot dry weather combined with gusty winds certainly makes for challenging gardening conditions. Unfortunately the long term weather forecast is for similar conditions to continue. Here are UWG’s top tips for native gardening in the dry.

What are plant families and how they can help with choosing and looking after native plants in your UWG garden?

The October workshop, ‘How to Visit a Native Nursery’, was held at the Coolum Community Native Nursery where full time manager, Tim Lang, took us on a tour of the nursery and shared his wealth of knowledge about native plants.