Potting Mixes
Premium Potting Soils for Healthy Plant Growth
Give your plants the best start with our high-quality potting mixes, specially formulated for different plant types and growing conditions. From general-purpose mixes to specialised blends for succulents, indoor plants, and veggies, we stock locally produced mixes that meet Australian standards. Available in bags for pick-up or delivery in Eltham and surrounding suburbs.
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Low-Phosphorus Formula for Native Plants | Ready-to-Use | Boosts Root Development
Van Schaik's Bio Gro Native Mix is specially formulated for Australian native and phosphorus-sensitive plants like Protea, Grevillea, and Banksia. Designed to reduce transplant shock and promote strong root systems, this mix helps your native plants thrive and bloom beautifully.
Ideal for:
- Native potted specimens (125–250 mm pots).
- Hanging baskets, window boxes, and planters.
- Containers indoors and outdoors.
Key Features:
✅ Low or no phosphorus, ideal for native species.
✅ Controlled-release and starter fertiliser included.
✅ Contains premium wetting agent for consistent moisture uptake.
✅ Promotes bigger root systems and prolific flowering.
Available in convenient 30 L bags — easy to handle and ready to use right out of the bag.
Available for pickup or local delivery across Eltham, Research, Diamond Creek, and surrounding suburbs.
Bio Gro Premium Wicking Mix – 30L
Optimised for Wicking Beds | Water-Efficient | Nutrient-Enriched
Van Schaik's Bio Gro Premium Wicking Mix is expertly formulated to support water-efficient gardening systems like wicking beds and self-watering pots. Its unique composition ensures optimal moisture retention and nutrient delivery, promoting robust plant growth with minimal watering.
Ideal for:
- Wicking beds and self-watering planters
- Raised garden beds and large containers
- Vegetable and herb cultivation
Key Features:
✅ Contains composted bark and scoria for structural integrity
✅ Incorporates coir to enhance capillary action and moisture retention
✅ Includes starter and controlled-release fertilisers for sustained nutrition
✅ Enriched with a wetting agent to improve water distribution
✅ Suitable for both indoor and outdoor gardening
📦 Available in 30 L bags – ready for use in your wicking pot!
Available in-store or via local delivery across Eltham, Research, Diamond Creek, and surrounding suburbs.
Nutrient-Rich Premium Potting Mix | Root Development | Indoor & Outdoor
Give your potted plants the best start with Van Schaik's Bio Gro Premium Potting Mix — a professional-grade growing medium crafted to help flowering and fruiting plants thrive. Made in Australia from quality organic ingredients, this mix supports strong root systems and abundant blooms, perfect for anything from indoor ornamentals to outdoor shrubs and fruiting varieties.
Ideal for:
- Flowering and fruiting potted plants
- Shrubs and decorative foliage
- Hanging baskets, patio pots, raised beds
Key Features:
✅ Contains controlled-release and starter fertilisers for balanced nutrition
✅ Enriched with wetting agent and seaweed plant food concentrate for consistent moisture uptake
✅ Promotes vigorous root growth, healthier foliage, plentiful blooms, and greater yields
✅ Premium quality texture and structure
📦 Available in 30 L bags – ready for use in any pot!
Available in-store or via local delivery across Eltham, Research, Diamond Creek, and surrounding suburbs.
Flexible gifting | Perfect for the keen gardeners in your life | Usable in-store or online
Looking for the perfect present? An ID Garden & Landscape Centre Gift Voucher is a thoughtful and practical gift for garden lovers, DIY landscapers, or anyone working on an outdoor project. Available in a range of values, our vouchers give the freedom to choose from our full range of soils, mulches, plants, tools, and landscaping supplies.
Gift Vouchers can be redeemed in-store or online, making them a flexible option for friends, family, or colleagues who want to create their dream garden or landscape.
Ideal for:
- Birthdays, Christmas, and special occasions
- Garden enthusiasts and DIY landscapers
- Corporate gifts and thank-yous
- Flexible gifting when you’re not sure what to choose!
Key Features:
✅ Available in multiple denominations
✅ Redeemable both in-store and online
✅ Wide range of garden and landscaping products to choose from
✅ Perfect for any gardener or homeowner
Lightweight & Sustainable Growing Medium | Expands to 15 L | Long-Lasting Soil Conditioner
The Brunnings Coir Peat Brick 15L is a high-quality, eco-friendly growing medium manufactured from compressed coconut husk fibre. Once soaked, it expands to provide 15 litres of coir-peat mix, making it perfect as a soil conditioner, potting mix additive or base for new beds.
This product enhances soil structure, improves moisture retention, and aids in loosening heavy clay soils, making it an excellent choice for Melbourne’s north-east garden conditions.
Ideal For:
• Enhancing soil structure in heavy clay or compacted beds
• Mixing into garden beds, containers, or raised planter boxes
• Vegetable patches, flower beds, native gardens and landscaped areas
• DIY gardeners, landscapers and soil-improvement projects
• Improving moisture retention while maintaining good drainage
Key Features:
✅ Expands to 15L of growing medium = great value.
✅ 100% natural coir fibre - renewable and eco-friendly.
✅ Improves soil water-holding capacity and loosens heavy clay soils.
✅ Long-lasting in-soil performance - up to 5 years.
Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.
Rich, Open-Blend Media | Built-in Slow-Release Fertiliser | Indoor & Outdoor Ready
The Brunnings Premium Growing Mix 30 L is formulated by horticultural experts to give indoor and outdoor container plants the optimal environment for long-lasting, healthy growth. The rich, open blend encourages strong root-systems and plant vigour, while the included slow-release fertiliser begins feeding from day one.
Highlights:
• Meets Australian Standards for premium potting mixes (AS 3743)
• Open-texture blend promotes healthy drainage, aeration and root development.
• Superior base with control-release fertiliser and water-retention granules to improve watering efficiency.
Ideal For:
• Indoor and outdoor container plants including shrubs, palms, vegetables, herbs and ornamentals
• Re-potting, new container plantings or refresh of tired potting media
• Gardeners wanting a premium mix that supports long-term container health
• Landscapers specifying high-quality potting mix for vulnerable or premium plants
Key Features:
✅ Rich, open blend for improved drainage and root-health
✅ Built-in slow-release fertiliser for continuous feeding
✅ Water-retention granules to maximise water-use efficiency
✅ Suitable for indoor and outdoor container applications
✅ Complies with AS 3743 premium potting mix standard
Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or available for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.
Water-Smart Coir Blend | Expands to 90 L with Water | Ideal for New Beds & Top-Ups
The Mega Coir Garden Soil Block 90L from Brunnings is a premium-grade, coir-based growing medium designed to deliver excellent water retention and good drainage. Crafted from fine, graded coir fibres, it keeps soil moist in hot weather and maintains warmer soil temperatures in colder months, making it ideal for creating new garden beds, refreshing existing ones, or planting edibles and ornamentals.
Ideal For:
• Installing new garden beds or topping up existing planting zones
• Organic vegetable patches, herb gardens and flower beds
• Landscapers and garden centres needing a large-volume, water-smart substrate
• Melbourne’s north-east clay or heavy soils that benefit from improved drainage and moisture control
Key Features:
✅ Expands into a full 90L of growing medium when hydrated.
✅ Premium-grade coir base - strong water retention yet still drains well.
✅ Ideal for hot, dry conditions or cooler weather thanks to coir’s insulating properties.
✅ Suitable for organic gardening and general planting applications.
Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.
Low-Density Premium Mix | High Potash Boost | Designed for Fruit, Citrus & Roses
The Searles Fruit, Citrus & Rose Specialty Mix 30 L is crafted to support vibrant roses, lush flowering plants and fruitful trees—whether planted in containers or garden beds. This advanced mix uses high-quality composted organic materials combined with the 5IN1® organic fertiliser system and extra potash to maximise bloom colour and fruit flavour.
Ideal For:
• Pots or garden beds of fruit trees, citrus plants and roses
• Courtyard gardens, patio containers and raised beds
• Projects requiring excellent drainage paired with nutrient-rich media
• Landscapers and home gardeners aiming for high performance plants
Key Features:
✅ Low-density soil mix for superior root health and growth
✅ Enriched with 5IN1® Organic Fertiliser and extra potash for blooms & fruit production
✅ Suitable for both containers and garden beds—versatile applications
✅ Designed specifically for fruiting plants, roses and flowering shrubs
✅ Easy to use with clear directions on the bag
Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden & Landscape Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.
Open-Texture Drainage | 18-Month Feed | Perfect For Cacti & Succulents
The Searles Cacti & Succulent Specialty Mix Advanced 10 L is expertly formulated to provide outstanding growing conditions for cacti, succulents and other low-water plants — whether in pots or garden beds. It features a deliberately loose structure to promote superior drainage and air circulation, helping plants avoid rot and thrive in Aussie conditions.
Enhanced with an 18-month controlled-release fertiliser, blood & bone, potash bloom booster and Penetraide® re-wetting granules, this mix ensures your succulents are fed, settled and moisture-responsive.
Ideal For:
• Potting up cacti, succulents, agaves and alpine plants
• Garden bed planting where fast drainage is critical
• Hot, dry or exposed spots requiring soil that won’t retain excess water
• Landscaping projects with a low-maintenance, sculptural plant palette
• Re-potting older plants needing refreshed growing media
Key Features:
✅ Open-texture formulation built for free drainage and good air flow
✅ 18-month feed built in for sustained plant nutrition
✅ Enriched with blood & bone and potash bloom booster for stronger growth
✅ Penetraide® re-wetting granules for improved moisture management
✅ Suitable for both containers and garden beds
Availability:
Available in-store at ID Garden & Landscape Centre, Eltham, or for local delivery across Melbourne’s north-east.
Moisture-retaining, organic & soil-enhancing | Beautifies garden beds
Jack’s Magic Natural Water Saver Mulch is a composted organic mulch enriched with high levels of cellulose fibre and humus to help your garden retain moisture, suppress weeds, and revitalize soil biology. Made from sustainable, renewable resources (including composted pine bark, manure, and humates), it slowly releases nutrients into the soil, protects root zones from temperature extremes, and improves your landscape’s ecosystem.
Ideal for:
• Garden beds around shrubs, perennials & ornamentals
• Under trees & in mulched planting zones
• Landscaped borders & decorative garden zones
• Sloped terrain or erosion-prone areas
• Integrating into your home garden or landscaping project
Bio Gro Veggie & Herb Potting Mix – 30 L
Grow-Ready | Harvest-Focused | Professional-Grade
Give your veggie and herb gardens the jump-start they deserve with Bio Gro Veggie & Herb Potting Mix. Crafted by Van Schaik’s Bio Gro, this premium blend is designed to encourage expansive root systems and maximise yield—whether in planter boxes, window gardens, or raised beds.
Ideal for:
- Potted vegetables and herb gardens
- Hanging baskets and window boxes
- Raised garden beds or in-ground container blends
Why you'll love it:
✅ Designed for veggies & herbs – packed with nutrients to support lush foliage and bountiful harvests
✅ Root growth support – encourages strong root systems for healthier, more productive plants
✅ All-in-one convenience – includes controlled-release & starter fertilisers, wetting agent & trace elements
✅ Premium texture – excellent balance of moisture retention and drainage for optimal plant health
📦 Available in 30 L bags — perfect for gardeners wanting a ready-to-use mix with big results!
Available in-store or via local delivery across Eltham, Research, Diamond Creek, and surrounding suburbs.
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