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Helen YoungLifestyle Columnist

Growing plants from cuttings is cheap and rewarding. Here are some tips.

Cymbidiums are popular and showy orchids with long, strappy leaves.

Espalier, training trees to grow along a flat plane such as a wall, can give you more fruit.

Espalier, training trees to grow along a flat plane such as a wall, can give you more fruit.

Treat your azaleas for lace bugs without harming the native bees.

Winter is the proper season of many Christmas-related plants, from holly and mistletoe to chestnuts and brussels sprouts.

Szechuan pepper trees grow from Tasmania to the subtropics. You can use the leaves in soups and salads.

Hunter Valley Gardens have been transformed into a winter wonderland over the NSW school holidays.

Redwoods, a stunning garden on a steep part of the Yarra River Valley, was built by a couple of passionate amateurs.

Readers’ Q&A with Helen Young. This week: using ash from a fire, yucca plants, lemon trees and magnolias.