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Spring in Ballarat doesn’t ease in gently. One week you’re still getting frost overnight and the next everything is pushing new growth at once. It’s highly likely quite a few jobs will need to be done all at the same time. To help you work out what you should tackle first, we have put together a list in the order of how we would do them here. Prune out what the frost damaged Winter can be hard on tender growth and by spring you’ll be able to see exactly what didn’t make it. Y

Most Ballarat gardeners are feeding their trees the wrong way. Here's the difference between gypsum, fertiliser and soil conditioners and why all three matter.

Ballarat frosts are not gentle. We regularly hit -7°C before breakfast and that kind of cold will expose any weakness in your garden fast. The good news is that a bit of preparation before the worst nights makes a real difference to how your plants come through. Here's what we tell customers who want to give their trees and plants the best shot at a good winter. Start with the right plants This is the most important decision you make and it happens before anything goes in the

No - we don’t sell bare root trees, here’s why… Walk into most nurseries in winter and the bareroot trees are stacked up, big flashy signs showing their discounted price and pushing the urgency of sale. Dormant, no soil, the roots have been hacked off or broken off and you have no idea if they have been damaged by frost or left to dry out. It's cheap and for the right gardener it works fine. But like everything in life, you get what you pay for. So what’s all the fuss about?

Water is the most precious resource we manage at Ballarat Advanced Tree Nursery. We have tens of thousands of trees and plants in various stages spread across the property. Each tree row has its own irrigation zone running on a timed and automated irrigation schedule. Our pumps cost a serious amount of money, their life is lessened every time they cycle on and off unnecessarily. Getting the watering wrong doesn't just mean a dead tree. It means wasted water, shortened pump li

Most people wait until spring to plant trees. I get it. The days are warming up, things are growing, the garden looks like it’s ready to be added to. But if you're looking to plant trees in Ballarat, that instinct is working against you. Winter is when you should be planting, and once you understand what’s happening below the ground during these colder months, you’ll see why. Winter planting gives trees a better start When a deciduous tree drops its leaves in Autumn, it’s not

Looks like the pot of gold is in our nursery today ! We are now finished the bulk of our potting up and our nursery is nearly at full...

During the Covid 19 global pandemic one of our rare visitors, a famous gardener came to visit our garden. They were super impressed by...

🥵 Here we have the west wall of our house, it used to get the full summer sun in the afternoon, which would heat up the bricks and heat...