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Avocados are not native to Australia. But they are now grown in nearly every part. These versatile trees can be grown in just about any tropical or semi-tropical region, and in a few other areas…

Xanthorrhoea Glauca Grass Tree, as noted a few weeks ago, is native to Australia. It grows very well here at Designer Trees, where we are harvest and cultivate it. This is an important point, because…

Olives and olive oil have been a part of human diet for a very long time. Olives can be eaten green or ripe. They can be pickled, or the oil can be expressed from them…

Limes are delicious, nutritious, and even good for cleaning things. There are several types of lime, but the one that is the most hardy and easy to grow is the Tahitian lime. It is sometimes…

Olives are an ancient type of tree. There is fossil evidence of olive trees as long ago as 20,000 or even 40,000 years ago, during the Oligocene Era, a transition time between the Eocene and…

Australia has many strange and wonderful plants, but if you had to pick one tree that says “Australia” that might be the bottle tree. Bottle trees are survivors. They store up water in their uniquely…

Dragon trees are amazing. Like many plants, they can help clean the air through the simple process of taking in carbon dioxide and giving off oxygen. Since this is a characteristic of most plants, it…

Tahitian limes are a hybrid of the Mexican lime and lemons. That is somewhat of an over-simplification…

Avocados, sometimes called alligator pears because of their bumpy skins, are a favorite snack time fruit. Many school children, apartment dwellers and others know the trick of sticking three toothpicks into an avocado seed and…

Here we have it, Xanthorrhoea Glauca in their natural environment. Those tress, you can see that the bushfires haven’t ever hit these trees.

I just want to show you quickly how we harvest these trees, and how we trim them right back. This goes with anyone that’s bought a Xanthorrhoea from us, and this is how we would…

Here we have it, the Xanthorrhoea Glauca in their natural environment

I’m just going to show you what happens here when you’ve got secondary stage of a dragon tree’s lifespan.