Gardens can make a huge difference to cooling your home. So what are the best tips?

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If you've done all you can inside your home to make it energy efficient, there are changes you can make outside the house to cool it down even more.

"Double-check with them that this would be something that you could plant in that situation without creating a problem for yourself, the council, or the neighbours," she said."Trees will protect trees. If you've got a grove of trees planted together, and then they're much more able to withstand and buffer the wind from different directions and protect each other as well as protecting homes," Ms Hinds said.

"As much as some of them can be damaging, it can also probably be a little bit of a life and infrastructure saver in some situations."But what if you have only a narrow place to plant a tree on the verge outside, or there's no soil at all? ABC talkback gardener Teena Sandford recommended large planter boxes, and also suggested the northern milkwood as a winner as it "bonsais well", which means it's roots and size adapts to its environment."It's one of those plants that needs full sun 100 per cent of the time."Ms Sandford is challenged on her home block with power lines restricting the height of trees she can plant.

"They're very slow growing, they can handle full sun, they're pretty tough. They can only handle water once a week."

 

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D_Melissa2 Don't plant gumtree in your yard because they are unsafe

This story seems to ignore Australian native trees in favour of exotics. Crazy

The best tip is to not let developers clear every last bit of vegetation and build McMansions jammed in together without any space for a back yard and nowhere to plant any trees. GreenEqualsCool

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