• My weekend: Aussie natives and a bonsai experiment

    This weekend was full of gardening inspiration. Yesterday, two friends and I went to an Australian native plant expo. We arrived early; well, what we thought was early… turns out people must have been lining up before opening time or just camped out overnight because it was packed, and many of the more exotic plants…

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  • My ever-growing collection of succulents is getting bigger each week, so I better start sharing some! Crassula is a genus of succulents with a heap of different species varying in colours, shapes, sizes and textures. I have about 10 different varieties of Crassula – they’re all fast growing and easy to propagate by stem. I…

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  • Welcome to my first SOS! I’m excited to share my day in the garden with you all. I’ll try to do at least one SOS a month, but hopefully I can keep up with weekly posts. For more information about Six on Saturday, follow cavershamjj and give this post a read. I love the idea.…

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  • Strawberries in Containers

    I love strawberries, but they’re usually expensive and you never know how they’re going to taste. Unless, of course, you grow them yourself. So that’s what I’ve done. All it took was 8 strawberry plants (4 different varieties) and 3 containers. For the containers, I used a milk crate that I found and lined with…

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  • Welcome 🌱

    Hi friends, welcome to Potted Up – a blog created to share my love and enthusiasm for container gardening with the world. I’m Abbey. I’m 23 and live in the dry, sunny northern suburbs of Adelaide, Australia. I planted my first seeds in January, 2018 and have been hooked on gardening ever since they popped…

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