Plants and Garden Supplies Blog

🌿 JOAN & BRUCE 💐

24 Feb 2019

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Our beautiful customers, Joan and Bruce, came in today on this lovely Sunday morning for a garden design! They came in with a fantastic hand-drawn layout of their garden, some photos of the space and only one idea to have a Weeping Cherry as a feature tree. Chris sat down with them to run through ideas and they designed a stunning cottage-style garden together with a show of eye-catching colour! All for only $620 bucks, design and delivery inclusive! Check out these great photos of the plants they chose together.

Interested in getting in on a FREE garden design too? Come visit us at 1477 Sydney Road, Campbellfield (everyday except Saturday) with some photos, drawings and ideas and any one of our lovely staff can help you out! Give us a call at (03) 9359 3331 to discuss further.

Happy Sunday! 🌺🌻

Horticultural Love!

14 Feb 2019

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by Brent Byrnes

Craig wanted to win a woman’s heart and he decided to impress her by decorating her balcony with attractive and interesting plants. He spent a half hour with a little help from Chris choosing colourful specimens that he thought would suit his lovely lady’s balcony area. His entire selection cost a little more than a bunch of flowers but will make a much longer lasting impression. We’re now waiting with our fingers crossed to hear if good hearted Craig was successful.

Box Hedging Guide

06 Feb 2019

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by Brent Byrnes

Box hedging, it is hands down the most popular item at the nursery! For a good reason too. It’s versatile and classic form means that it matches almost any garden style. But we get it, with many options, comes great responsibility, and you don’t want to make the wrong choice! It’s okay, take a deep breath, we are here to help you with this handy guide. So without further adieu we give you Box Hedging: Which one is right for me?

Approx hedge height – Shortest to tallest growing (In Melbourne, Victoria)

40-50 cm: ‘Tom Thumb’- Euonymus japonicus microphyllus

50-60 cm: ‘Dutch Box’ – Buxus sempervirens suffruticosa

50-60 cm: ‘Korean Box’ – Buxus microphylla microphylla

1 m: ‘Variegated English Box’ – Buxus sempervirens variegata

1 m:‘Japanese Box’ – Buxus microphylla japonica

1.2 m: ‘Green Rocket’ or ‘Evergreen Spindle’ – Euonymus japonicus

1.2 m: ‘BoxOz’ – Lonicera Nitida

1.5 m: ‘Shaggy Box’ – Buxus bodinieri

1.5 m: ‘English Box’ – Buxus sempervirens

1.5 m: ‘Faulkner Box’ – Buxus microphylla faulkner

2 m: ‘Box Leaf Privet’ – Ligustrum undulatum

Rate of growth – slowest to fastest (In Melbourne, Victoria)

Very slow: ‘Shaggy Box’ – Buxus bodinieri

Slow: ‘English Box’ – Buxus sempervirens

Slow: ‘Variegated English Box’ – Buxus sempervirens variegata

Slow: ‘Green Rocket’ or ‘Evergreen Spindle’ – Euonymus japonicus

Slow : ‘Dutch Box’ – Buxus sempervirens suffruticosa

Medium: ‘Faulkner box’ – Buxus microphylla faulkner

Medium: ‘Korean Box’ – Buxus microphylla microphylla

Medium: ‘Japanese Box’ – Buxus microphylla japonica

Fast:‘Tom Thumb’- Euonymus japonicus microphyllus

Fast: ‘BoxOz’ – Lonicera Nitida

Fast: ‘Box Leaf Privet’ – Ligustrum undulatum

Why Summer Is The Best Time To Plant?

31 Jan 2019

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by Brent Byrnes

Hello Hello,

In February our nursery is full off the best bargains of the year. Traditionally most people do their planting in the cooler months, but the absolute best time of the year to plant is February as the nights are getting longer and cooler and the evaporation rate is dropping rapidly.

New plants will only need a few weeks of intensive watering, they will establish quickly in the warm soil, then you have 8-9 months ahead into the little to no watering stage and by next summer they will be established and ready to boom in spring.

You may be suffering in the heat but well watered plants adore hot weather. If you are contemplating a large plating project use a chemical soil wetter to enhance the effectiveness of your watering. The great thing is that if you plant now we offer the biggest and best plant bargains in February.

If you need any advise feel free to drop in at the nursery to see me.

Chris,
Hello Hello Plants
1477 Sydney Rd, Campbellfield

Beautiful Customer Message ❤️

16 Jan 2019

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by Brent Byrnes

💚🙂We love our friendly customers🙂💚 This is a beautiful little message we received from David today, it absolutely warmed our heart and we are so grateful you shared something so precious with us, YOUR ROSES LOOK BEAUTIFUL❤️

“Couldn’t post to your page but really wanted to send you these pics. Purchased these little standard Iceberg roses from you last winter and planted them out in a space that was a little lacking. As you can see they have taken off and are thriving….thank you so much.
I planted them in honour of my partners twin brother and my grandmother whom have both passed and are buried in the white rose garden of Sutherland cemetery. They mean so much.” 💚💚💚

Japanese Garden Makeover!

14 Jan 2019

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by Brent Byrnes

We love our friendly customers😊💚This is Kathy & John from St Albans, they came out to the nursery with an idea to create a Japanese style garden. 🍁
With the help of Chris and the gang they put together this beautiful trolley full of lush plants while their kids played in the nursery looking for fairies!
Thanks for coming out to say Hello Hello 👋😉

UNDER $3 CLEARANCE RANGE

31 Dec 2018

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by Brent Byrnes

We have an awesome range of cottage plants, shrubs and ground covers all under $3.

So get in quick, before they run out the door! We’ll see you at the nursery 🌼 1477 Sydney Rd, Campbellfield ☎ (03) 9359 3331 🌴 OPEN EVERYDAY 9am – 5pm 🌞

Lovely Christmas Spirit

27 Dec 2018

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by Brent Byrnes

How’s this for Christmas spirit! Lovely Elsa here paid us a visit today for our BIG Boxing Day sale so she could do-up her dear old friend Sylvia’s garden who is not able to do much gardening anymore. What a lovely gesture! Thank you SO much Elsa for telling us your kind story and for bringing your goodwill to the world. We know Sylvia will love her new garden!!

Matching Shirts!!

05 Dec 2018

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by Brent Byrnes

Check out the shirts🌴😂SO GOOD! Tony (Chris’s long lost brother it seems) travelled all the way from Dandenong to snap up a bargain and left with a beautiful little weeping cherry for his garden! Thanks for brightening our day Tony.

Double Trouble-Two Chris’s!

14 Nov 2018

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by Brent Byrnes

😁💐DOUBLE TROUBLE-TWO CHRIS’S💐😁We had the absolute pleasure of meeting Chris today, he decided to come into the nursery after seeing the🌸$4.99 Line🌸special on Facebook! 👍

What a trooper, he drove an hour to get here!🚗💨and he’s bought THOUSANDS of plants off us in the past, and said “$3 difference per plant might not seem like much but when you’re getting heaps it makes all the difference” ✨
Thephotos of he showed us of his garden look awesome and we’re stoked to have such a happy cruisey customer! Thanks Mate, look forward to seeing you again 🌟😃