Garden Centres - Online Retail and Garden Nursery Directory

Garden Centres and Retail Garden Nurseries in Australia. www.nurseriesonline.com.au through it's retail nursery pages provides links to some of the best Garden Centres servicing Victoria (VIC), New South Wales (NSW), Western Australia (WA),South Australia (SA), Queensland (QLD), Tasmania (TAS), Northern Territory (NT) and Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

Sell a lot more than plants, pots, planters and fertilizers, gardenind accessories such outdoor lighting, garden tools and water features are also a standard item with many garden centres.

In many garden centres you will also have trained horticulturalists who are able to provide expert advice that relate to local conditions, the closer to where you live the more local the knowledge and advice.

Our individual state guide lists some of the more interesting retail nurseries in Australia. Turners Garden Centre and Nursery in QLD may be small, but what a huge range of plants, with fruit trees being a speciality. In Perth, check out Lena Nursery for an excellent selection of Fruit Trees. While Ross Evans Garden Centre on the Gold Coast, boast not only a huge selection of plants but also fine dining.

FEATURED Flowering now and available from good nurseries and garden centres is Calibrachoa 'Million Bells'. Works well in a hanging basket, container or hanging over a garden wall. Requires good drainage. Try Cloudhill Nursery Olinda Victoria....

ROSS EVANS GARDEN CENTRE (QLD)
www.rossevansgardencentre.com.au
Located on the north end of the Gold Coast at Runaway Bay. The 6 acre site is home to Queensland's biggest and best garden centre, a 100 seat luxury 5 star restaurant. Leading pot importer and wholesaler. Selling in volume direct to the public. Focus on top quality both in our plant and pot ranges. You will find only the very best here

As the water is housed under a protective cover, evaporation is minimised. The fiberglass that is incorporated into the concrete construction reduces the porosity of the water features thus further reducing water loss. Reclaimed water can be used in the water feature as it will not effect the operation of the pump or the appearance of the water feature.
Garden Decor and sister company Pots Direct are one of Australia's main wholesaler's of top quality imported pots, urns, water features and offer distributors water saving advice and options to provide their clients.
Visit the Decor Garden Website for further distributor information www.decorgarden.com.au

WATER FEATURES IN THE GARDEN

In our hot climate, water features are becoming very popular in our gardens. They refresh and cool us, give us visual and sound interest, and remind us of an oasis. The early Persian and Moorish gardens followed the ancient Egyptian style where a garden was quartered by two canals and trees were planted to provide shade. Larger gardens contained many intersecting canals.
Persian gardens had water rills which were in straight lines as these were easier to make. They were lined with colourful tiles; and formed the basis for the formal garden style to follow for so many centuries. These walled gardens contained pavilions and had a brief season of a wealth of spring flowers, but with the heat of summer, visual interest was provided by the colorful tiles and fowl such as peacocks.
Today's courtyards and gardens may be enriched with a water feature. These range from the latest water walls and classical fountains, spouting pipes which pour water into a small reservoir, to the rarer shallow rill which can fascinate children and adults alike. Pools may have stepping stones - informal rocks as in Gordon Ford's naturalistic garden to formal square pavers in straight lines. Crossing a pool like this brings out the child in us.