Fantastic Spring Plant Sale!

Written by Admin | 14 October 2011

All garden plants in stock 20% off!

Until Tuesday the 19th, 11am, we're offering you 20% off all our plants. Simply use the following coupon code 'plantsforspring' in checkout to receive your discount. After entering the coupon code, you will see the 'coupon discount' amount displayed in your cart and in checkout. The discount does not apply on shipping or any non-plant items.

Come and browse all our plants in stock now and don't miss out; this sale ends Tuesday, 11am. Please note that our cutoff time in 5pm Friday's, payment for your order needs to be received before 5pm to be sent on the Monday.

Get 10-20% of your next garden plant order!

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Written by Admin | 22 June 2011

Other gardeners would love to read about your experience with the garden plants you have purchased from National Tropical Plants Nursery! We'd also like to see photo's of your garden to inspire other gardeners and are offering 20% off for photo's of your garden with a description of which plants are in it. They don't necessarily need to be plants you've bought from us, just nice pictures which might give fellow gardeners some great ideas (see this section: https://www.nationaltropicals.com.au/blog/garden-design-ideas)

How do you get 10-20% off your next garden plant order?

1. Write a short growing tip, review, or your thoughts about any of the plants you’ve purchased, and in return we’ll give you a flat 10-20% discount off your next order, across our whole online nursery range! Write 50-100 words and get 10% off. Write 101-200 words and get 15% off. Write 201 words of more and get 20% off your next plant order!
2. Or, send us a photo of your garden to inspire other gardeners, with a description of which plants are in it. Those plants don't necessarily need to have been purchased from National Tropical Plants. Just nice gardens to give other people great ideas.

How do you submit your photo, growing tip or plant review?

Email your photo's with description, your tips or reviews to ‘ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ’ and I will put it on the website for you. Alternatively, for the tips & reviews, you can log in to our website, www.nationaltropicals.com.au, and go to the plant you are reviewing (searching for it is the easiest way! There’s a search box on the left above the categories), and scroll down to where you see ‘write a growing tip’. Write your tip or review in there and click submit.

You can use your own name or a nickname to stay anonymous, and don’t forget to mention which plant you’re writing about!

We will reply with a special discount code, via email, within 5 days of receiving your photo with description, tip or review. Some conditions apply, please read them below.

What are the conditions to getting 10-20% off your next garden plant order?

• The discount voucher cannot be used on the postage charge, only on products available on the website at the time.
• Descriptions, tips and reviews need to have good levels of grammar and punctuation.
• Tips or reviews of 50-100 words get a 10% discount voucher. Tips or reviews of 101-200 words get a 15% discount voucher. Tips or reviews of 201 words or more get a 20% discount voucher. Photo's of your garden with a description of the plants you've planted in it get a 20% discount voucher.
• Your tip or review must relate to a product you have purchased on the National Tropical Plants website and mention this product somewhere in the tip or review. This does not apply for the garden photo's.
• National Tropical Plants reserves the unlimited and unrestricted right to modify, or otherwise alter the content of the tip or review and publish this under your pseudonym. All material submitted to National Tropical Plants as a description, tip or review will automatically become the copyright of National Tropical Plants.
• National Tropical Plants will at all times respect your anonymity and privacy in relation to the submission of your plant growing tip or review. You can use your own name, initials or a nickname to sign off.
• National Tropical Plants will reply within 5 working days with your special promotional code, which can be used once to buy an unlimited number of plants from the National Tropical Plants website (www.nationaltropicals.com.au), subject to stock availability at that time. Whatever is available on the website at the time can be purchased.
• The final decision to publish the photo, tip or review is reserved by National Tropical Plants Nursery and is at the sole discretion of National Tropical Plants.

We look forward to your photo's, growing tips & reviews!

Winter Wood Chopping Time - Fiskars Axe to the Rescue

Written by Admin | 18 June 2011

Winter is here and the temperature is down to around 6 degrees at night here, just north of Bundaberg.  I know it gets much colder in other parts of Australia, and I do feel sorry for you, but you could of course move up here which would fix that problem Certainly it's not as cold as Finland, where the product I’m talking about comes from, guaranteeing quality.

Lucky for us, Fiskars has been kind enough to give us one of their brand new axes to review, the Fiskars X15. My husband and I (I watched, he chopped) gave this axe awhirl and compared it to one of the old axes we were using up to now. First thing you notice is that this axe is a bit shorter than the other one, which makes it easy to swing and carry. It’s like a ¾ axe I suppose, if you wanted to label it. It does come in 2 different lengths to suit your body type and preference.

The Fiskars X15 is incredibly light due to it being made from fibreglass reinforced polyamide. Basically, this means they are light weight and virtually indestructible. Apparently this is the axe my husband would use if he was in a horror movie, as you can chop & go, where a heavy axe might weigh you down. Don’t ask me why he has been thinking about this subject in the first place, but I do know not to run upstairs.

The blade on this axe is incredibly sharp; you could seriously slice a tomato with it without worries, so keep your fingers and neighbours out of the way. It is made of drop-forged Finnish carbon steel with PTFE coating. The coating is similar to your non-stick pans, which help to decrease friction between the blade and whatever you’re chopping, which will save your arms and shoulders! It also has the unique Fiskars ‘enclosed head’ design, with special fastening between the head and handle so the blade will always stay in place.

The X15 is ideally a chopping axe, made for chopping branches etc, but the sharpness of the blade allows you to split blocks for firewood quite easily as well. We tested it on some proper Aussie hardwood, a great old Ironbark log, and this axe held up its own and chopped the block in only a couple of go’s. Fiskars also has splitting axes available if this is your main purpose.

The Fiskars X15 would be a great axe to take with you when you go 4-wheel driving, so you’re prepared when trees have fallen across the track. It’s much easier to take than a chainsaw, doesn’t use fuel, and you leave it in your car just in case you get stuck somewhere. My husband suggests that, if you leave the axe in your car, you will never be without a hammer to hammer your tent pegs in with either, but I think this axe is a bit too good-looking to use for that purpose....

I’ll be taking this axe with me on my weekly ‘property-patrol’. We run our plant nursery from a 47 acre property which is mostly bush, probably around 40 acres of it. Every week there are trees & branches fallen across the track, and this axe is light enough for me to take and swing around. Beware!

Some tips on chopping & splitting wood from gardening expert Jason Hodges below, with the full article available at the Fiskars website

• Select dry wood; it chops easier and burns better
• Remove nails, screw, spikes etc, or pick wood without
• Pick a solid, flat and clear surface to chop your wood on. An old stump is excellent
• Aim to hit the wood squarely along the grain

Gingers on Special - ends 11.05

Written by Admin | 04 May 2011

This week we're offering 2 of our favourite Gingers at bargain prices!

The Spiral Ginger (Costus pictus) is only $4.50 Save 50%!

The Native Red-Backed Gingers (Alpinea caerulea) are only $5.10 each or buy 10 for $45 save 40%!

Gingers are fantastic for creating a tropical garden and are very hardy and easy to grow. Both Gingers can be grown in full sun, althought the Red-Backed Ginger appreciates a bit of protection from the hottest sun hours. The Alpinea is an Australian Native and looks stunning with it's red leaves. Both gingers are suitable as house plants as well as garden plants. Click on the names above to read the full plant description. Happy growing!