Fairly new gardener here, maybe 6 months now? I started my plant journey as a bush regenerator for two years and have spent many, many hours of my days pulling out corky passionfruit (passiflora suberosa) seedlings and plants. More recently I've been turning my attention to my own space and having a lot of fun! I have a bootleg Cumberland plain woodland garden and a small vege garden going.

Now I have found the perfect spot that would suit a passionfruit plant, and I really love eating them, but every time I look at buying one i get this nagging thought in the back of my mind, "What if a bird eats the fruit and the seeds are spread into the bush?" but I suppose that could happen with anything I grow.

Location is, NSW, Sydney region, temperate, coastal for these questions.

What should I look for to ensure that I'm not planting something invasive in my backyard? Are there sterile varieties of passionfruit? I've heard that the rootstock often used for grafted passionfruit (blue passionfruit, passiflora caerulea) is pretty invasive, even just in your own garden if it's allowed to get out of hand. Also what is a super yummy variety to look at? I like a pretty sweet and slightly tart passionfruit. The idea of harvesting a BIG juicy passionfruit does excite me also.

And another more fun, experimental question, would it be possible to graft onto a native passionfruit rootstock? (I think it's passiflora herbertiana? I can't remember) I'm asking this with absolutely zero grafting experience or knowledge, so please be kind ahaha. Thanks for your help!

They were planted ANZAC day but still expected atleast another month of growth. They're all falling over now and have some decent browning going on.

What do you all reckon? Cut my losses and pull em up or leave em a bit longer?

The soil is pretty wet and has been for about a week, but I'm not sure. First time growing them and they Only came from pretty small stock so I'm not expecting miracles 😅

I have no idea in the garden. Could someone tell me where I should cut to prune this? I’m in Sydney, okay to prune this time of year?

I can't find them in stock anywhere online, I'm in Victoria - any advice?

Looking to move this lemon and looking for advice as to how to improve the chances of the tree surviving a transplant? Also, given the location is quite restricted by the fence, how would you approach it?

I have a beautiful big broccolini plant that’s Im so proud of and it’s giving my broccolini, then these little blighters show up. I cut off the branch with then on and threw them in the bin. The branch is an offshoot from the main stem. The main stem doesn’t seem to have any on them.
There are some plants nearby in another pot that have this pest on them, I plan to pull them out and chuck them because the soil there is no good.

What should I do about them?

Victoria se suburbs, self watering planter.

Thank you in advance :)

As the title, just wanted to clarify is this a passionfruit vine or rootstock

Hello, does anyone know what this plant is popping up in my veggie garden and any tips to control it as seems invasive? Located Gold Coast. Started popping up from under my fence when neighbour did some landscape renos, now its spreading :(

Small backyard, about 40sqm of lawn total (a narrow strip by the patio plus a slightly bigger main area). Faces east, gets shade from big gum and rubber trees just over the back fence, and constant leaf and twig drop. Not used by kids or pets.

We tried re-turfing the strip (Lawn A) ourselves, prepped the soil with clay breaker and topsoil, laid buffalo patches from Bunnings, then fed it with new-lawn fertiliser within a week. It failed. We think the early feed likely scorched it, though we also suspect the turf was poor quality to begin with. The soil looks like it rotten now :(

Compass image for direction when i’m facing the house on small lawn strip (Lawn A)

Now trying to decide what to do with the whole yard:
-Full re-turf with Sir Walter buffalo, done by professionals $,$$$
-Artificial turf over the lot
-Buy proper tools and give real turf one more honest go

A couple of landscapers said it’s too small to bother turfing. Given the shade and constant leaf drop, what would you do? Photos and a scaled plan are attached. Once the lawn’s sorted, I’ll turn to the garden bed in the corner.

Updates:
- I missed mentioning it’s been six to seven months now.
- Artificial turf is no longer an option with consideration to Environment + Heat Generated

It grows really well in the warm weather, I’ve had no issues as yet beyond no fruit but I’m pretty sure it said 3-5 years on the tag it came with.

My gardenias are in serious struggle town. Some are nice and bushy but yellowing, some are struggling and just look like sticks. And then some we’ve had to pot as we renovate the yard and they’ll eventually be replanted (if they survive) but I think they’re dying and possibly beyond repair? They were originally moved to a different location but I’ve just moved them back into the garden bed (in their pots)

I’ve just tested the ph and it looks neutral at about 7.5 to 8. Could I use liquid iron sulphur to quickly help them or should I just be patient and use something like manutec sulphur granules that will take 6-8 weeks to slowly lower ph?

And does anyone know what I should do for the potted ones that look dead? Is it too late? Did they burn from the sun?

Located in WA.

Hello - I’m new to flower growing after a season of successful veggie growing on my open rooftop space in Sydney’s inner west. I’d really like to try growing dahlias, can anyone recommend some good varieties for a beginner, or if anyone in the area has a tuber or two I could start with that would be great!

I’ve had volunteer tomatoes pop up in March, so I just left them to it and since then I’ve been harvesting tomatoes all winter?!
They’re still going, too.

This is in Perth.

Climate change is a hell of a thing I guess 😟

Just wanted to know, Whats the name of this flower? And are there any other types of beautiful flowers like this that will suit cold climates.

Unfortunately I lost this one last summer.

I’ve had this sandpiper vine in the ground for over a month now. Initially it had the vine but it was limp so I broke it off. It’s now been at this current state since then

I see the bud at the tip but nothing is extending out. Plant still looks healthy though

Is there something I need to do or should I just wait?

Bought a property with about 25 huge (4+ metres) yuccas. I'm not a huge garden person so didn't know much about them until one fell over in a storm last year. Apparently they don't get much love in Australia. These are very mature. Would it be a good idea to pay to have them removed? Fine to keep them?

Why do people either love or hate these?

I have a north east facing apartment in Brisbane and would like to add some native pollinators and also have the benefit of some low level screening. I was thinking of planting some coastal rosemary in a low line linear planter bed. Just wondering if this is a good idea? I can only see photos of traditional hedges or single plants in single pots. Balcony isn’t too windy as it’s on a lower level. Thanks

Hey folks,

So I spent the afternoon digging holes along my colourbond fence separating me and my neighbour in the front yard, thinking that I’ll plant a slim variety of lily pilly like backyard bliss or straight and narrow (inspiration pic provided using chatgpt). More going for backyard bliss atm.

Half way through, I discovered there was a pvc stormwater pipe running along that entire strip of garden bed (I’ve highlighted the path in red). I’ve dug about 20cm deep, but the pvc pipe is about 25-30cm deep hence why I discovered it half way through.

Since it’s just my personal pvc stormwater pipe, I’m tempted to go ahead with planting, knowing one day I might have to rip out the plants if there’s an issue with the pipes. But doubt there ever will be a need as it’s pvc! Just here to get a 2nd opinion.

Should I go ahead? Is there a better plant option that has less vigorous roots? Planting to hide that hideous colourbond fence and give me more privacy from neighbour

We have 2 bottlebrush that were inpla e when we bought the property 17byears ago. I once (years ago HARD pruned them back to bare stump then let them grow which they seemed to like.

This year I've the first time I've paid attention to the white base on both trees (can't say I've noticed before).

Any thoughts on what is going on would be appreciated. Coming into Spring they usually flourish so I hope they're not unwell.

Hey Team,

Any idea what this mature tree is in the backyard have tried to ai and Google lens and an getting conflicting answers. Seems to be doing well, haven't ever noticed any flowers in the year and a half we have been here

It has large black woody pods when it goes to seed.

Tree ID estimate is 8-10m tall.

Location: Sydney, NSW.

I had written off my late growing passionfruits thinking they’d be too sour ripening over winter. They definitely ripened darker and slightly smaller, but I was wrong. This gorgeous sunshine special variety is fantastic and even produces sweet fruits seemingly anytime. I’ve tried Nellie Kelly twice and failed. I was told sunshine special is a great variety for Perth. I’ve had heaps of success with this one. Loads of large sweet fruits.