Our Blog

Below is a list of our latest blog posts, enjoy!

 

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 11 March 2025

If you haven't seen these plants, then you are in for a real treat. Heliconia's are incredible plants known for their stunning hanging flowers. We've listed the top 6 reasons why we think Heliconia's are a must in all tropical gardens.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 4 March 2025

Food trucks are now a thing at Bamboo Land! The first Saturday of the month, we will be having food trucks out at Bamboo Land! Visit the Howard Markets, then pop over to Bamboo Land for lunch.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 18 December 2024

Explore our abundant range of gift ideas for earthy homewares and decor. You will find many worthy gifts for your loved ones and yourself.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 17 December 2024

For the green thumb in your life, it can be hard to satisfy their growing needs. Good thing Bamboo Land stocks the highest quality garden maintenance tools. We take pride in the fact that we use all these tools everyday for our own garden maintenance.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 28 November 2024

Caladiums are an incredibly beautiful plant and you can get so many different varieties from bright magenta inner veins, pink speckles, white with green veins or even black stems! They are beginner friendly and provide huge satisfaction to any grower.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 30 October 2024

Ben Winspear and The Hervey Bay Art Society visit Bamboo Land! They explored the space and found rare plant subjects to try their new painting techniques on which they just learnt from Ben.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 30 October 2024

Old fashioned and in the corner? We think things are changing for this incredibly hardy plant nick named The Cast Iron Plant. In this blog, read about the great features of this plant including its non-toxic and low maintenance needs.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 9 October 2024

The closed flower hangs from the top of the stem like a pendant and shares the likeness of a shimmering pearl with a pale pink body and magnificent magenta tip. The flower opens to look like a deep sea shell which attracts beneficial insects.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 3 October 2024

This rare vine encapsulates the treasured tropical essence we all strive for in exotic gardening. The Strongylogon macrobotrys is endemic to the Philippines and prefers moist, well drained soil with a structure to climb upon like the bamboo arbour here.

Author: Marta Hackett   Date Posted: 24 September 2024

What an incredible World Bamboo Day we had at our nursery and parklands! With 38 people joining our first tour and 22 in the second, the enthusiasm for bamboo was contagious.

Date Posted: 11 September 2024

The Costus are commonly known as spiralling gingers, but technically they are not true gingers and regarded as a separate genus. Here at Bamboo Land, we think the Costus are an under utilised plant, great for features or fillers in tropical gardens.

Author: Janne Nilsson   Date Posted: 6 November 2017

In 2017, Bamboo Land Nursery and Parklands took out the winning position in the Land Based Tourism category at the Fraser Coast Business & Tourism Awards.

Author: Janne Nilsson   Date Posted: 11 February 2016

Bamboo makes a wonderful addition to any tropical and subtropical garden design, but to make bamboo work long term requires carefull selection of species, garden planning and a good understanding of how bamboo grows.

Author: Janne Nilsson   Date Posted: 10 February 2016

Hopefully you have been getting some good flowers in your tropical garden during these past summer months. At Bamboo Land, we have had quite a warm summer with decent rainfall, so growth has been good with plenty of flowering gingers and heliconias throu