6 Gifts of Service to Spoil Mum this Mother’s Day!
Help your mum around her home and garden with these Mother’s Day gift and project ideas. Check our guide to six Holman gifts guaranteed to impress mum.
10 Steps to Creating a Living GreenWall
We teamed up with The Garden Gurus and visited The Standard in Perth to set up a beautiful set of GreenWall™ Vertical Planting Kits in their lush outdoor dining area 🌞🌞🌞
Tips for the #SMARTGARDENER
While beautifying our gardens or expanding what we grow is usually the priority while gardening, there are a number of important factors to consider to ensure we are being smart with our resources and saving ourselves time and energy in maintaining our gardening endeavours.
DIY Micro Irrigation
Micro Irrigation systems are ideal for minimising water wastage and ensuring your plants are getting the exact amount of water they need.
2018 Christmas Gift Guide
Impress your loved ones with a Holman gift this Christmas! We’ve got you covered this holiday season with our annual guide to the best gardening gadgets to help make the most of your backyard this summer.
DIY Outdoor Lighting Designs
As we enter the season of balmy nights and BBQs, illuminating outdoor entertaining spaces makes for the perfect spring project.
Father’s Day Gift Guide
Your Father’s Day gift search is covered with our curated guide of gardening gifts and gadgets guaranteed to take Dad’s garden and outdoor entertaining area to the next level. All prices…
Mother’s Day Gift Guide
Find the perfect gift for Mum this Mother’s Day with our handy gift guide. With products ranging in price and purpose, we’ve got something for every green thumb Mum who loves spending time in her garden. All prices correct as at 27 April 2018 via Bunnings website.
7 Easy Steps To Install a Retractable Hose Reel
Retractable Hose Reel keep your backyard tidy, protect your hose from the weather and are available in three handy sizes. They feature a removable cover which is handy for inspecting the hose and retracting mechanism.
Propagating from Seed in a Greenhouse
Our 4 Tier Greenhouse with Misting Kit creates a perfectly humid environment ideal for seed propagation. It is an easy to assemble product, and its narrow size is great for gardens, courtyards and balconies.
How to Clean Your Gutters
As we welcome autumn and its cooler temperatures, a change in season provides the perfect excuse to get stuck into a few outdoor home maintenance jobs (that in all honesty, we’ve been avoiding since spring!).
Top 8 Shade Loving Plants for Your Garden
Have you got a shady spot in your backyard that is a constant challenge to fill? Most plants like a healthy 4+ hours of sun hitting their leaves to thrive. However, there is a good selection of decorative shade loving plants that will happily live in darker corners of your homer or garden.
6 Tips for a Water Wise Garden
Apply a soil wetting agent to assist water penetration in lawns and garden beds. Wetting agents not only increase water absorption but also improve efficiency of any fertilisers used, reduce water run-off and help eliminate dry patches. Wetting agents increase water absorption into soil, encouraging deeper root growth and ultimately less watering is required.
Christmas Gardening Gift Guide
We’re here to help you discover the perfect gift this Christmas for your friends and family. Whether they are beginner gardeners, avid green thumbs or just love spending time in their own backyard these gifts are sure to help beautify their gardens.
Raised Garden Beds: 4 Week Check In
In early October, we brightened up a narrow walkway of a house with our easy to assemble Raised Garden Beds. You can read about the set-up of this fun gardening…
Grow From Seed in a Holman Greenhouse with a Misting System
The Holman 4 tier Greenhouse with Misting Kit creates a perfectly humid environment ideal for growing plants in. It is designed as a DIY and easy to assemble product, and its…
Transform Your Unused Outdoor Space with a Raised Garden Bed
Every house seems to have that one tricky spot that is a challenge to utilise. It did not take us long to find such a place: the side of the house. We took a narrow paved walk-through area and decided to add some life into it with a 600 × 1200 × 150 mm Raised Garden Bed.
4 Ways to Green Up Your Space while Renting
If you’re renting, you may think you don’t have as many gardening options as a home owner but don’t be too disheartened. At Holman we have some great indoor and…
Set up a Vertical Living GreenWall
Our Holman GreenWall range is the new way to gardening. Are you living in a smaller space or an apartment where ground gardening isn’t available, but you still want to…
How to flush your irrigation system and replace pop up nozzles
Blocked nozzles not only water inefficiently and waste water, but they also cause dry and patchy spots on your lawn. It’s common for nozzles to become damaged and replacing these is a necessity before setting up your warm weather watering schedule.
Growing Plants from Seeds Part 2
It has been a month since we planted our seeds into our greenhouse and our seeds have now flourished into large healthy seedlings. The humidity created in the greenhouse rapidly grew our seeds and they are now ready to be transferred into the GreenWall.
Holman Garden Tip: Growing Plants from Seeds
Autumn has arrived and we now say goodbye to summer gardening and hello to the ease of Autumn gardening. Autumn brings more rain and less direct sun exposure, minimising dry heat and creating a great growing atmosphere for our plants. In Autumn growing root vegetables is great for 2 reasons; It is the best season to start planting root vegetables and it provides a great vegetable harvest for winter cooking.
Keep Your Garden Alive
February is here and it is known to be one of Australia’s hottest months. If not prepared, hot summer days can be extremely damaging to your plants and lawn. Dehydration causes plants to stress, which can cause their leaves to become wilted.
Weatherproof Your Garden
Summer is here now and temperatures are now reaching their peak. Give your plants what they need the most right now. Watering your plants regularly throughout the next few weeks is crucial.
In Australia, we can experience dry and hot summers that can be damaging to your garden if you are not prepared. Losing plants due to dehydration can be avoided over the next few weeks.
How to create a GreenWall – Vertical Garden
When you look at your garden or your balcony you are either in love with the beautiful greenery and the flourishing plants or you are reminded of the gardening project that you have been meaning to complete. We have an eye-catching masterpiece yet a purposeful solution to having easy greenery in your back garden or apartment balcony.
Our Holman GreenWall range is the new way to gardening. Apartment balconies do not have sufficient space for a detailed garden and block sizes are getting smaller. Our solution to still incorporating a lush contemporary garden into your home is… think beyond growing in the ground, grow on the wall!
5 Easy Steps to Build a Holman GreenWall Benchtop
Having fresh herbs available at home can be expensive and depending on the herb, it is not always available at your supermarket. Unless you constantly buy fresh herbs you are left to either purchase lightly dried herbs that will only last 4 weeks.
Grow your own vegetables with a Raised Garden Bed
Growing your own vegetables and having a beautiful garden is what we all love, but finding space that is large enough to dig out soil and have a garden can be challenging and time-consuming. A raised garden bed is the solution to growing your own vegetables.
Waterwise Garden at Perth Royal Show
Having a beautiful, lush and healthy garden can be easily acheived without using excess water. To show you how Trevor Cochrane from the Garden Gurus has created an amazing inspirational…
