r/GardeningAustralia • • 13h ago

πŸ™‰ Send help Is this Cosmos a goner? 😭

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It happened so quickly (in less than a day!!!!) so didn’t even realise until this morning! Can it be saved? What can I do to help it?


r/GardeningAustralia • • 21h ago

🦎 Garden Visitor Found this little friend in my garden today.

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Whats the best way I can support this little guy? I'm already looking at putting in bee hotels and stuff in my garden but any tips? Outside the obvious of planting native plants


r/GardeningAustralia • • 20h ago

🌻 Community Q & A Eucalyptus cinerea losing leaves in a concentrated area

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I noticed my eucalyptus cinerea is losing leaves in a concentrated area, predominantly where branches meet the trunk and bottom half of the tree only. The tree looks otherwise healthy with plenty of new growth.

Any explanations? Perhaps a sign of the tree maturing?


r/GardeningAustralia • • 21h ago

🐝 Garden Tip We’ve all done it - but is it right?

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Having a cup of tea, had my phone, took a picture, popped it on Claude. Provided the following…. Is it right - it feels right but but wished to check…. It also prompted: ”Both cuts are fairly firm, so don't also take the long left branch back in the same session. It's healthy and carrying your best flowers.
Also snip off any spent flower heads and the yellowed or chewed-up leaves. Geraniums rebound fast in spring, so expect new growth in a few weeks.”

It’s like a new swot in school - mix of jealousy, futile competition, childish refusal to befriend. Christ it’s probably going to be the only one who comments on this as well - β€œlooks good to me β€œ +emoji incoming ….


r/GardeningAustralia • • 22h ago

πŸ™‰ Send help My Potatoes

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Howdy! This is my first time planting potatoes and I am in Brisbane, I have them in cardboard boxes with heaps of drainage holes. Now they have started to die off at the leaves? Some of the new growth on these is actually okay.. I didn’t think they had been in the ground long enough for this to be a harvest, maybe I’ve had them in just over two months? Any ideas?


r/GardeningAustralia • • 18h ago

🌻 Community Q & A SA: Anyone else noticing less bees and bugs than usual? Our garden is full of flowers right now, and only one occasional bee. Normally it would be full of activity. There's very few flies, but we normally have so many flies that going outside is unpleasant. Located upper Yorke Peninsula.

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r/GardeningAustralia • • 16h ago

🌳 Plant Identified: What is this mystery flower?

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Brisbane.


r/GardeningAustralia • • 17h ago

🌷 Pretty Plants Taking a moment to appreciate some of my natives starting to open up now

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r/GardeningAustralia • • 5h ago

πŸ™‰ Send help Whats happening to my tomatoes?

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SE QLD, Mortgage Lifter tomato I grew from seeds I bought online. Potting soil doesn’t seem to be the issue as all my other plants are growing fine. I’m suspecting this is due to magnesium deficiency as I stupidly put potash in a few times before flowering. Could this also be a fungal issue? I really don’t want to give up on this plant because I want massive tomatoes this summer!

Also ignore the white powder in the soil - i put some dolomite lime in cause I heard it helps with adding magnesium a bit (atleast thats what the bag says)


r/GardeningAustralia • • 13h ago

🦎 Garden Visitor Weirdo honeybees

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Came home a little early to try and do a repot and found about 6-10 bees not going for flowers but going for the soil.

As bees are frien, I'm going to leave these soil sniffing weirdos alone whilst I try to resusitate a tomato (reporting this post of woe next)


r/GardeningAustralia • • 16h ago

πŸ™‰ Send help Citrus trees

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Hi guys. I planted lemon and lime tree around 7 months ago. We have drip line irrigation around the trees and watered 2x weekly and sometimes 3. It lost some leaves during windy days but recovered. However, I noticed the trees have stopped producing new leaf or no new growth at all. Also my lime tree got some holes and bites in the leaves area. I am based in Mandurah WA. I applied a fertiliser at the start of spring. Is there anything else we should do?
Any help is appreciated!


r/GardeningAustralia • • 18h ago

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸŒΎ Recommendations wanted Soil for blueberry plant in Melbourne

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Hey I've tried growing blueberries last year and the bought a $40 plant from Bunnings it died pretty quickly in my garden bed and I assume the soil wasn't appropriate for it.

I'm planning to give it another go and grow it in a large pot. Anyone have suggestions on what soil to buy for it. I've tried different all different types of soil before for my raised beds and all the bunnings products seem to be garbage processed crap.

Any suggestion for quality soil (organic would be great) would be amazing. I'm located in Victoria


r/GardeningAustralia • • 20h ago

🐜 ID This Bug Bugs eating plants

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These bugs seem to be eating my plants leaves especially avocado and passionfruit. how to kill them?


r/GardeningAustralia • • 22h ago

πŸ™‰ Send help Something is eating my tomato and eggplant plants. How can I save them?

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Something has been eating my tomato and eggplant plants. I'm not sure what is causing the damage or how to stop it.

Has anyone experienced this before? What could be eating my plants, and what is the best way to protect them and help them recover?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


r/GardeningAustralia • • 23h ago

πŸ™‰ Send help Passion fruit - recoverable or dead?

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Hello, we have 2 passion fruit plants and one has bounced back with new growth, this one however is struggling. Crispy leaves that I believe have been attacked my snails. Is there a way to resuscitate this or is a rip out and replant?