Contrasting with Wormwood

With Spring literally just around the corner we’re seeing lots of beautiful Federation, Shasta and African daisies in gardens and nurseries right now. The splash of colour is always a welcome sight at this time of year and importantly we see buzzing bees collecting pollen, pollinating flowers and then ultimately we enjoy their hard work […]

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Taste sensation of Lilly Pilly

What a fruitful conversation over the weekend about a wonderfully useful plant. Linda from Kumbia and I discussed the beautiful Lilly Pilly tree and how it offers us so many culinary possibilities. With vibrant, flavourful berries, Lilly Pilly is native to our Australian rainforests and is a reliable food source for numerous animals and birds. […]

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Favourite Fruit Trees

Fruit trees are certainly a valuable addition to the home garden offering us delicious homegrown, fresh fruit. My favourite fruit trees in my own front garden are the Nagami cumquat and the Tahitian lime; both are abundant when I’ve take the time to water them regularly and give them a citrus fertiliser feed. With some […]

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The Secret Garden

My first Garden evolved thirty two years ago when I was newly married. In time it decoratively and practically surrounded our first home in the small coastal village of St Georges Basin on the South Coast of New South Wales. The intention of this garden was to provide a beautiful safe haven, a play and […]

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Planning for Planting

As the winter weather starts moving from cooler to warmer, our soils begin to awaken and beckon us to start planting things. You might be thinking about planting seeds into punnets and keeping them sheltered in readiness for spring. This really would give you a satisfying and affordable head start. The pleasure of eating fresh, […]

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The Five Minute Gardener

When inside tasks are done and dusted, nothing is better than starting the day meandering in the garden. For me, fresh air, peeping sunshine and the glow of the mid winter season draws me in. At the moment our garden is a bounty of limes, cumquats and mandarines which have been great in supplying ourselves […]

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Treasures of the Garden

There are so many things a garden can offer our senses. From the visually perfect form of a rose to the scent of the compost. We may get as much enjoyment giving someone a bunch of flowers grown in our own garden as we did finding and picking them and what could ever equal the […]

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Nostalgic Gardens of the 1920’s

Many years ago I had thoughts about writing a book; including stories of people and their home gardens. Sometimes I think back to this time when I was creating my own garden and watching precious rain sprinkling life. I also collected stories for the collation of this Gardening Book and one of my favourites is […]

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Fun in the Sun with Flower Soup

Autumn is the perfect time to spend outside with children and get some gardening time in before the onset of winter. Children love to explore interesting garden environments and many will involve themselves in the garden by discovering birds, insects and lizards, by climbing trees and simply playing in the garden and following garden paths. […]

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Wonders of the Wondai Garden Expo

Find two green fun filled days of garden goodness at the Wondai Garden Expo this April. It doesn’t feel like it was eighteen years ago that I first enjoyed this wonderful event after moving to the beautiful South Burnett from a small coastal village in NSW. With a few relocated potted plants, my garden here […]

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