Fact Sheets: 2003
December
Acid-loving Plants
26 December 2003
There is a group of plants called the acid-lovers.
Crop Rotation
26 December 2003
Vegetable patches are very successful when they are organic using no sprays or chemicals and are managed well.
Propagating Azaleas
26 December 2003
Many plants, especially cultivars, start their life as cuttings as this is often the only way to preserve parental characteristics.
Rose Care
26 December 2003
Planting roses: Roses have been in existence for possibly 4 million years and in cultivation for around 5000 years.
Training & Pruning Fruit Trees
26 December 2003
Fruit trees are excellent for the backyard as they don’t grow very large and also provide you with fresh fruit.
Citrus Trees
19 December 2003
Home grown lemons have a fantastic flavour.
Compost
19 December 2003
The secret to vigorous plant growth is using the finest of all organic fertilisers, compost.
Hanging Baskets
19 December 2003
Hanging baskets are wonderful for utilising spaces that would otherwise be wasted.
Propagation by Layering
19 December 2003
Where branches of semi-weeping plants touch the ground, they often take root.
Rakes
19 December 2003
Rakes have been with us for thousands of years and are a very useful tool.
Bulbs & Others
12 December 2003
What are bulbs?
Division of Perennials
12 December 2003
Perennial herbaceous plants produce spectacular flowers in summer but die back in winter when they are dormant.
Hoes
12 December 2003
The garden hoe is an ancient but very versatile garden tool.
Managing Clay Soils
12 December 2003
Clay soils are a problem for a number of reasons.
Soil Conditioners
12 December 2003
Liming: If the soil becomes too acidic, then in order to plant species that prefer slightly alkaline conditions for growth, it is necessary to lime the soil.
Fruit Tree Planting
5 December 2003
Deciduous trees can be planted out from a container at virtually any time of the year, but the best time is when the plant is dormant.
Caring For Houseplants
5 December 2003
Houseplants can completely transform and light up a room, thus it is not surprising that they are becoming increasingly popular.
Mulches
5 December 2003
Mulching ornamental gardens: All news is very good news in the garden.
Potting Mixtures
5 December 2003
Potting plants is a very satisfying job.
Spades, Forks & Shovels
5 December 2003
Cultivating the soil can be very enjoyable and is also good exercise.
November
Understorey Planting
28 November 2003
The beautiful tropical garden at Humpty Doo on the outskirts of Darwin, is full of huge trees and palms and magnificent understorey plants, which come to life during the build up to the hottest most humid time of year.
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
28 November 2003
Nothing epitomises the image of Australian garden design more strongly than the wonderful avenue of Lemon Scented Gums Corymbia citriodora at Cruden Farm, Langwarrin near Melbourne.
How to do heel cuttings
28 November 2003
PROPAGATION - STEM CUTTINGS WITH A HEEL .
Xeriscaping
28 November 2003
Water plays an important role in the development and sustainability of our gardens.
Maatsuyker Garden
28 November 2003
Maatsuyker Island.
Garden Hygiene
21 November 2003
No matter how small or how young your garden is, or whatever it is you are growing, horticultural hygiene will tip the balance in favour of healthy plants or crops.
Herbal Tea
21 November 2003
Plants are the earliest medicines known to mankind.
MY GARDEN: Pamela Thomas
21 November 2003
The garden of Pamela Thomas is in Sydney, New South Wales.
What not to put in the compost bin
21 November 2003
Gloves, Boots & Masks
21 November 2003
John Patrick gives some good advice about protecting yourself in the garden.
OH & S
21 November 2003
Many of us are used to considering occupational health and safety issues in the work place and are aware of the Health Authority standards of each State.
Mackay Ladies in the Patch
14 November 2003
Five enthusiastic gardeners from Mackay in Queensland, and fans of Gardening Australia, have come to visit Peter in the vegetable patch and meet him face to face.
Sydney Farmgate Scheme
14 November 2003
For most Australians who live in our bigger cities, our supermarket shelves are where our produce comes from.
GOTY 2003 Winner
14 November 2003
Michael Hagen is the 2003 GOTY winner, and is very chuffed to be presented with the Golden Spade by Colin Campbell.
GOTY Finalist 2003 - Michael Hagen
14 November 2003
Queensland - Michael Hagen
Michael does not see gardening as work, although it is very hard at times, but as a leisure activity.
GOTY Finalist 2003 - Val Chapple
14 November 2003
Queensland - Val Chapple
Two hip replacements have not stopped Val Chapple from being in her garden.
GOTY Finalist 2003 - Bob & Margaret Garbutt
14 November 2003
Victoria - Bob & Margaret Garbutt
Bob & Margaret work together on all their garden projects.
GOTY Finalist 2003 - Deborah Cantrill
14 November 2003
South Australia - Deborah Cantrill
Deborah Cantrill has a biodynamic farm in the Adelaide Hills.
GOTY Finalist 2003 - Sue Moss
14 November 2003
Western Australia - Sue Moss
Since moving to her garden in Nannup four years ago, Sue’s garden and the whole town have been overflowing with blooms.
Grampians Flora
7 November 2003
The Grampians are one of Victoria’s major tourist destinations, a magnet for bushwalkers, climbers and naturalists, but its flora is one of the most diverse in Australia.
Land for Wildlife
7 November 2003
Land for Wildlife is a voluntary scheme, designed to assist and encourage landholders to provide habitats for wildlife on their property.
Plants and Pets
7 November 2003
Our gardens are places where our pets spend much of their time, but most people probably don’t realise that often the two do not go together.
Termites
7 November 2003
The Australian bush is a dynamic place.
October
Vegie Patch Produce
31 October 2003
It is wonderful to be able to go out into your vegetable or herb garden and pick a variety of produce all the year round.
Asian Vegetables
31 October 2003
Over the last two decades our strong and growing connection with Asia has had a large influence on the food we eat today.
Celery
31 October 2003
There are several cultivars of Celery Apium graveolens var.
Herb Spiral
31 October 2003
One of the most important decisions when creating a herb garden is the position.
Lemons, Limes & Cumquats
31 October 2003
There are an enormous variety of fruits in the citrus family, many not commonly grown by home gardeners, but they grow extremely well in all areas of Australia from the tropics to the cooler, more temperate areas.
HANDY HINT: Chicken Feeder
24 October 2003
Watering device for Chickens .
Successful Annuals
24 October 2003
There is nothing more spectacular than massed displays of flowering annuals.
Technicolour Flowers
24 October 2003
Australia is a sunny optimistic country, so it is curious that English garden styles with a conservative use of colour is so popular.
Dendrobium Collector
24 October 2003
One of the enjoyable things about gardening is nature’s ability to take us by surprise, and this year there has been one of the most extraordinary flowering events ever seen in Victoria.
Australian Cut Flowers
24 October 2003
Australian flowers are unlike any others in the world market.
Spring Bulbs
24 October 2003
Spring bulbs would certainly be amongst the most favourite flowers because they evoke the joy and romance of spring, and planted en masse they create a wonderland of colour.
Ferns
17 October 2003
The New Guinea Tassel Fern Huperzia sp.
DIY - Starting a Seed Collection
17 October 2003
There’s one thing better than growing your own plants and that is growing them from seed you have saved yourself.
Unusual Bulbs
17 October 2003
Otto Fauser is a renowned plant collector with a passion for bulbs, but these are not ordinary bulbs.
Old Tools
17 October 2003
The design, making and use of tools is one of the great expressions of man’s evolution.
Sleeper Weeds
10 October 2003
Environmental weeds pose one of the greatest threats to our native vegetation.
Environmental Weeds
10 October 2003
Weeds are the bane of most gardeners’ lives.
Olives - Weeds
10 October 2003
While we have enthusiastically embraced organically grown olives in this country, and enjoy using the oil that they produce in our cuisine, we also have to recognise the tendency of olive trees to invade our bushland.
Quarantine
10 October 2003
Brisbane airport is the terminal where many people are returning home from an unforgettable overseas experience.
Elements of Design
3 October 2003
There are many different garden styles being interpreted in Australian gardens today.
Way Out Design
3 October 2003
Urban landscapes are very difficult places in which to make great gardens.
The Borrowed Landscape
3 October 2003
An English, Japanese or tropical style of garden can easily be created almost anywhere in our country, and the ability of being able to bring a part of another country into our own backyard, is one of the attractive aspects of gardening.
Young Designers
3 October 2003
Burnley Horticultural College provides the training and education for inspired young garden designers interested in building a career in the industry.
September
Ceres
26 September 2003
The hustle and bustle of city life can sometimes divorce us from reality, and the huge environmental problems that our world faces.
City Parks
26 September 2003
Our urban parks are one of the most valuable of our community resources, and their value increases as our urban population grows.
David Jones
26 September 2003
At the beginning of every spring, flower lovers flock to David Jones, in Sydney to experience the mass of floral displays that beautifully combine the texture of flowers and foliage, intermingled with their delicate perfumes.
Riverwood Community Garden
26 September 2003
For the past six hundred generations most people lived as agriculturists.
Organics in the Vegie Patch
19 September 2003
There is a tool like a type of French broad fork that is very useful for the vegie garden.
Milk Fungicide
19 September 2003
Some organic gardeners have been using milk as a fungal control for decades, but it has only been in recent years that it has been looked at seriously as an effective and safe control of powdery mildew on some garden plants.
Sandy Soil Organics
19 September 2003
Australians love to spend time at the beach no matter what the weather is like or what time of year it is.
Earwig Problem
19 September 2003
Earwigs are a major problem in the Barossa Valley.
Organic Solutions
19 September 2003
As the weather starts to warm, garden pests and diseases begin their rampage.
Organic Fruit
19 September 2003
Whenever you see ants running up and down the trunk of a tree, you can be sure that this activity is leading to something.
Strawberries
12 September 2003
Ever since they came into cultivation thousands of years ago, strawberries have been in demand as an all-year-round available fruit because of their luscious flavour, as well as having high nutritional value.
Pizza Oven
12 September 2003
Food cooked on a wood fire has a very special flavour about it, and having a wood fired pizza oven in your own garden is a fantastic addition.
Outdoor Settings
12 September 2003
There could be places in your garden that you have sometimes used, but perhaps not to their best advantage, and with some imagination any garden room can be converted into beautiful outdoor spaces.
Benign Bug Control
5 September 2003
In the Virginia market garden area, north of Adelaide where increasingly these days the glasshouse owners are using insects to control other insects.
Heirloom Vegies
5 September 2003
Heirloom vegetables are a gardener’s inheritance.
Richmond Birdwing Butterfly
5 September 2003
The Richmond Birdwing Butterfly is one of Australia’s most impressive and beautiful native butterflies, but unfortunately it is under threat of extinction.
Grow Your Own Threatened Species
5 September 2003
Australia is an amazing place.
Handy Tip
5 September 2003
The trunks of young trees can be damaged inadvertently while whipper snippers are employed to do trimming tasks at ground level.
August
Getting Ready for Spring
29 August 2003
Jerusalem artichokes are a type of sunflower and their tubers make wonderful eating.
Seeds vs Seedlings
29 August 2003
Most of our plants began life as a tiny seed, and this particularly true when it comes to flowering annuals and vegetables.
Peonies
29 August 2003
Peonies are sometimes called ‘Queen of the Flowers’.
Wood Ash
29 August 2003
Wood Ash should not be applied to the soil unless it is certain that the soil can benefit from it.
Camellias
29 August 2003
Camellia japonica cultivars are prime winter flowering plants, and succeed the Camellia sasanqua varieties in their display, and have a noticeably different form.
Biodiversity in the Garden
22 August 2003
The balance of the delicate web of life that supports our very existence can very easily be destroyed by an ignorance of our environment.
Snails & Caffeine
22 August 2003
Coffee is a great pick-me-up if you are feeling a bit sluggish, but interestingly slugs themselves do not enjoy it.
Bladderworts & Sundews
22 August 2003
In an area of bushland south of Darwin, is one of the state’s best-kept botanical secrets.
Lantana Bug
22 August 2003
Are they friends or foe?
Urban Forests
22 August 2003
As cities spread out, the casualty is that they consume the natural vegetation.
Cycads
15 August 2003
Cycads are beautiful and fascinating plants for the home garden in tropical and subtropical areas.
Science of Gardening
15 August 2003
Remember what it was like to go on a school excursion?
GAL Flowers
15 August 2003
Home gardeners are very accustomed to thinking in terms of seasons, when to plant their vegetables for best eating and when to plant their annuals for best effect.
Secrets of Tomatoes
8 August 2003
The secret of making not just good compost, but the very best of compost, is to make sure that the ingredients contains no sticks or hard woody material and they should be made up of the biggest range of organic material that is possible, including food scraps.
Secrets of Propagation
8 August 2003
Phil Collins has been growing Australian plants for 25 years, propagating difficult to grow species and his knowledge is exceptional.
What is a Cultivar?
8 August 2003
A lot of the plants that we see in gardens today are the result of breeding and selection.
Designing for the Seasons
8 August 2003
Especially in the southern states of Australia at least, there is a marked difference between the ample colour of summer and the more understated, cooler colours of winter, and nowhere is it more noticeable than in the garden.
Large Garden Design
1 August 2003
Effective use of space is the key to great garden design, but before we start planning a garden attention must be paid to: .
Plant Profile: Eucalyptus globulus
1 August 2003
The flower of this giant forest tree is the floral emblem of Tasmania.
Eucalypt Garden
1 August 2003
Eucalypts are very much part of the Australian landscape.
Fruit Trees
1 August 2003
There are an enormous variety of delicious summer fruits that you can grow in your home garden in a Mediterranean climate.
Perspectives & Space
1 August 2003
One of the real challenges of urban gardening is lack of space, but even the smallest space can be transformed into a beautiful functional garden.
July
Winter in the Patch
25 July 2003
Winter is a busy and exciting time in the garden, with many activities that can be undertaken.
Chilling Peony & Winter Worms
25 July 2003
The herbaceous peony may be grown in warmer climates but these conditions are too warm for it to flower.
Frost Tolerance
25 July 2003
With the onset of winter comes the possibility of frost, and the effects can be devastating for frost-susceptible plants.
Drainage Solutions
25 July 2003
Poor drainage in the garden can create many problems.
Mosses, Lichens & Liverworts
25 July 2003
Mosses, lichens and liverworts are all ancient land plants; in fact they are the earliest of land plants, and they play a crucial and dynamic role in our environment.
Best Soil Improvers
18 July 2003
Manures are valuable sources of nutritional elements, and can be used to improve the quality and fertility of poor and impoverished soil.
PLANT DIARY: Luma apiculata
18 July 2003
Luma apiculata is an evergreen shrub or small tree from Chile and Argentina.
Tools of the Trade
18 July 2003
Choosing tools for your garden can be daunting due to the great variety of tools that are available.
Australian Plant Propagation
18 July 2003
We are fortunate in Australia to have a huge array of Australian plants, mainly due to the diversity in our soil and climatic conditions.
Re-use Ideas
18 July 2003
Searching through recycling areas, salvage yards or builders skips for landscape materials will yield many unusual objects which can be used with brilliant effect in the garden.
Computer Garden
11 July 2003
A major tool for the garden of the future can now be found on a laptop.
Talking Dirtty
11 July 2003
We all depend on the soil for a productive garden.
The Solution
11 July 2003
Our cities may be depicted as monuments to the 21st century, but they also are a costly drain on resources and major pollutants of the environment.
Controlling Fruit Fly
11 July 2003
Fruit flies are an extremely devastating pest for both commercial horticultural producers and home gardeners.
New Plants
11 July 2003
Gardeners, growers and designers recognise the release of new season plants as an exciting opportunity to use plants in fresh and different ways.
Gardening in New Suburbs
4 July 2003
Australia’s current housing boom has led to the development of new estates in areas that are close to our major cities, where many first time home owners are becoming gardeners.
Abutilons
4 July 2003
The delicate bell-shaped flowers of the Abutilons inspire the common name of Chinese Lantern, but they are tough, hardy garden plants that come in a range of beautiful colours.
Salvias
4 July 2003
Salvias are tough dependable plants that are easy to grow and propagate, making them ideal perennial plants to include in garden beds, with an extraordinary range available in many colours.
Planter Bed
4 July 2003
One of the greatest pleasures that you can get from gardening is making and building them.
Pruning
4 July 2003
The reasons why we prune trees or shrubs is: .
June
Weird Plants
27 June 2003
Most people are content with normal plants like roses and box, but then they can go to their local botanic gardens and discover something weird, which begins a passion for something unusual.
Gnomes & Fun Statues
27 June 2003
Little people feature in many European countries as part of their cultural heritage and have done so for probably thousands of years, dating well beyond the start of Christianity.
Eccentric Gardens
27 June 2003
Garden fashions come and go, but some people adopt a more individual approach.
Carnivorous Plants
27 June 2003
When distant tropical islands were being described to Europeans for the first time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, myths and legends about people eating trees and plants captured the imagination of Victorians.
Shortest Day in the Vegie Patch
20 June 2003
Don’t be deterred by the increasing shorter days of winter.
Kitchen Garden
20 June 2003
The kitchen garden has a long tradition.
40,000 Year Forecast
20 June 2003
With the arrival of the Europeans came the European idea of four seasons, each of equal length.
Aussie Winter Colour
20 June 2003
So many Australian plants are at their best in winter, and it is probably because most of the world’s warm climate plants receive most of their rainfall in summer, whereas in temperate and arid Australia, most of the year’s rainfall occurs in winter.
Bonsai Boys
13 June 2003
Bonsai had always fascinated Taj whenever he had seen them, and so he decided to give it a go himself.
Cabramatta High School
13 June 2003
We garden for many reasons, and behind the best gardens is a clear vision.
Kids Planting Bowl
13 June 2003
Planting bowls can be used an attractive centrepiece to make for a table, windowsill or as a display anywhere in the house.
McAuley Primary School
13 June 2003
At McAuley Primary School there is a dry barren area that is part of the schoolyard, where the soil is eroding away and only the weeds grow.
Stephanie Alexander
13 June 2003
In Melbourne’s inner northeast, surrounded by bustling city streets, there is a quiet revolution going on that could change the way young people think about healthy food.
Hays Paddock
13 June 2003
Most of us will remember our playgrounds as trees and a school playground on a bitumen surface.
Designing a Fruit & Vegie Patch
6 June 2003
The Vegie Patch began about eight years ago with an idea that was developed and built at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.
Sculpture Garden
6 June 2003
A garden means different things to different people, and is one of the most exciting things about being a gardener.
Gordon Ford
6 June 2003
There is an art to placing rocks in the landscape so that they have a sense of belonging in the situation where they have been placed.
Topiary
6 June 2003
Topiary is one of the most enduring forms of plant architecture.
May
Big Picture Recycling
30 May 2003
In the past many councils have simply dumped all the rubbish from their collections into a general landfill site, which is an incredible waste of potential resources.
Banyule Display Garden
30 May 2003
Home gardeners know the benefits of recycling all their green waste from the kitchen and garden into compost.
Growing Grapes
30 May 2003
The Hunter Valley was the first area in Australia where grapes were planted for wine production.
Step-by-Step No Dig
30 May 2003
Why get to work with heavy tools that require a lot of physical labour, when you could let nature do the work for you.
Winter Gardening Tip
30 May 2003
The Savoy Cabbage grows through the coldest months of winter, and is highly nutritious, and excellent source of vitamin C.
Indigenous Planting
30 May 2003
In Bruce Partland’s Elwood garden he is exploring the ornamental potential of his local indigenous plants.
Classground
23 May 2003
The plant life on our planet must have been a sombre eco-system 200 million years ago.
Hunter Valley Gardens
23 May 2003
The Hunter Valley Gardens are extraordinary.
Rare Collection - Ballarat
23 May 2003
Collecting is very addictive, and the plant world is such a diverse and interesting field to dabble in because there seems to be a never-ending source of fascinating material.
Alice Springs Desert Park
23 May 2003
Alice Springs Desert Park is the gateway to Central Australia, where visitors can experience everything that the Central Australian desert has to offer, all in one location.
After the Flowers
16 May 2003
The fruits of the Senegal Date Palm inspired artist Bronwyn Oliver to create a beautiful textural sculpture in the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and it symbolises what autumn is all about, a celebration of fruitfulness.
Holly Fuchsia - Graptophyllum ilicifolium
16 May 2003
Holly Fuchsia
A Queensland native that deserves to be more widely grown than it is the beautiful Holly Fuchsia Graptophyllum ilicifolium.
Autumn Plants
16 May 2003
The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting colder and there is generally less activity as winter approaches.
Autumn in the Patch
16 May 2003
The marvellous thing about autumn is that it is a good time for hard physical work.
Step-by-Step Compost Bin
16 May 2003
A compost bin can be made from a range of re-used materials that can be found in tip shops and on building sites.
Begonias
9 May 2003
Most garden centres have a very limited range of begonias for sale.
Rosa 'Pierre de Ronsard'
9 May 2003
Rosa ‘Pierre de Ronsard’
This is one of the most spectacular roses.
Kangaroo Paws
9 May 2003
The Kangaroo Paw is one of our much loved icons, and this native plant is the one that is most identified as being Australian.
Colour in the Tropics
9 May 2003
The cicadas sing when it gets to the troppo season in the north.
Best Longest Bloomers
9 May 2003
People love colour in their garden, and especially plants that flower for extensive periods.
Using Bamboo
2 May 2003
Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world, with most species native to Asia and China, a large number in South America with several species native to Australia.
Balinese Garden
2 May 2003
Carolyn and Rene Hundscheidt began work on their garden about five years ago, and with their landscaping skills have created a tropical paradise that is reminiscent of Bali.
Luculia pinceana
2 May 2003
Luculia pinceana
Native to Nepal, Luculia pinceana may not be as well known as the more common and larger Luculia gratissima from the Himalayas, but it is certainly worth searching for.
Riverwood Community Garden
2 May 2003
For the past six hundred generations most people lived as agriculturists.
Zygopetalum
2 May 2003
Stephen Monkhouse of Adelaide Orchids specialises in a group of hybrid orchids, Zygopetalum.
April
Australian Cut Flowers
25 April 2003
Australian flowers are unlike any others in the world market.
Cymbopogon ambiguus
25 April 2003
Cymbopogon ambiguusScent Grass or Lemon Grass
Cymbopogon ambiguus Scent Grass or Lemon Grass is one of 1300 different types of Australian grasses.
Hills Hoist Makeover
25 April 2003
To convert an old Hills Hoist into a shade-house, you will need to relocate an existing one, probably from the middle of a lawn to a more practical location, or position a salvaged one that is to be re-used.
Garden Maintenance
18 April 2003
This garden on the northern beaches of Sydney is the property where Esme has lived for over thirty years, and being of mature years it has been become a bit neglected over time.
Group Planting
18 April 2003
When you visit your local nursery, there are so many plants to choose from that it is easy to put together a collection and take them home for your garden.
Step by Step Lawns
18 April 2003
Whenever you build a new house or renovate an old one you will invariably be left with some large bare patches of ground.
Perennial Rock Garden
18 April 2003
Rocks are a key element of design on any steep site.
Cool Tropics
11 April 2003
Tropical conditions in Melbourne aren’t words that are often used in the one sentence, but take a trip to the Melbourne Zoo and you will feel as though you have just stepped into the jungle.
Tropical Stars
11 April 2003
The warm hot climate of Queensland is perfect for growing some of the most flamboyant flowering plants that you will ever see.
Wet Season Gardening
11 April 2003
During the wet season, the monsoons come in from the north bringing nearly 2 metres of rain, the creeks and rivers fill and flood and stretch out across the flood plain.
Plant Profile: Hakea Lehmanniana
11 April 2003
Hakea lehmannianaBlue Hakea
Hakea lehmanniana or Blue Hakea flowers between July and September and has the most interesting blue-green flowers.
Vegie Patch #2
4 April 2003
More and more people are starting to grow their own vegetables, partly because it saves money especially with prices today, and because it is very satisfying and fun, but mainly because we are all concerned about what we are eating.
Leafy Greens
4 April 2003
It was not that many years ago that when we made up a salad, you could guarantee that it would be made using lettuce leaves of one of the hearting varieties available.
Heritage Vegies
4 April 2003
Heirloom vegetables are a gardener’s inheritance.
Figs
4 April 2003
Although figs have been grown for thousands of years, we still do not know a lot about their cultivation, and this becomes apparent when we look at their morphology.
March
Port Arthur
28 March 2003
The history of gardening in Australia is fascinating, and much of if begins at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.
Betty Maloney
28 March 2003
In the suburbs of Sydney, on a small piece of land is Australia’s most celebrated native garden.
Heritage Fruit
28 March 2003
It is often said that apples do not taste as good as they used to.
Garden Practices
28 March 2003
An essential gardening contrivance in Victorian England was the glass cylinder that forced cucumbers to grow straight.
Reclaiming Water
21 March 2003
With drought affecting so much of southern Australia this summer, there is a much greater awareness of the home treatment of water for use and reuse, by a range of different systems.
Best Waterwise Plants
21 March 2003
Much of Australia is in the grip of drought.
Michael Mobbs
21 March 2003
Michael Mobbs always felt that the government wasn’t doing enough to help the environment.
Business Park
21 March 2003
Major residential and industrial developments can have profound ramifications for the surrounding environment, including the management of stormwater runoff.
Eco School: Rose Bay
14 March 2003
Early on a Saturday morning, when most people are still in bed, students at Rose Bay Primary School are ready for a day’s work to finish an environmental makeover that they have started on the school’s garden.
Tropical Fruit Garden
14 March 2003
Seventy kilometres south of Darwin is one of the most interesting open gardens that you will find in northern Australia.
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
14 March 2003
Of all the community gardens that are probably the most significant are local and national and botanic gardens.
Wynn Vale Community Garden
14 March 2003
The Wynn Vale Community Garden is in a northeast suburb of Adelaide.
Buy & Plant Bulbs
7 March 2003
Planting IdeaAll you need is a dish, some gravel and a little water to grow daffodils in an unusual way.
Leeks & Carrots & Soaker Hose Idea
7 March 2003
Leeks and Carrots
When planting leek seedlings, firstly make a row of holes and then drop them in so that most of the plant is in the hole.
Pollination
7 March 2003
Many gardeners grow plants for their visual beauty.
Warm Climate Bulbs
7 March 2003
Whenever gardeners talk about bulbs, most people will conjure up images of tulips and daffodils and all those other delightful spring flowering bulbs that we associate with colder climates.
Small Water Garden
7 March 2003
A potted water garden is a style that can be an interesting addition to any garden.
February
Ian Kiernan
28 February 2003
Before Ian Kiernan started the Clean Up Australia campaign, he was a well-known, world-class yachtsman and his home reflects his great love of the sea.
Stirling Wildflowers
28 February 2003
The south west of Western Australia is a treasure chest of wildflowers, and the Stirling Ranges National Park is a jewel box.
Seaweed
28 February 2003
Fertile soil is the most important and significant substance on earth.
Sustainable Garden
28 February 2003
Worms are the most willing and effective workers you could ever put into your garden.
PLANT DIARY: Alternanthera dentata (Joy Weed)
28 February 2003
Alternanthera dentataJoy Weed.
St. Erth Perennials
21 February 2003
In the 1850’s thousands of people rushed to the Blackwood area in the pursuit of gold with a dream of wealth.
Vegie Patch
21 February 2003
To have a successful vegetable patch in full production at this time of year is very satisfying.
Mediterranean Garden Design
21 February 2003
Mediterranean style gardens are popular in Perth, and there are some very practical reasons for it.
Hose Sprinkler
21 February 2003
Hose Sprinkler
It is inspiring to find that poor people from poverty stricken parts of the world are able to reuse rather than recycle.
Blueberries
21 February 2003
Good quality water that is low in dissolved salts is a rare commodity in many parts of Australia, and is necessary for growing blueberries; as well a slightly acidic free-draining loam is ideal, and an open sunny aspect.
PLANT DIARY: Choisya Ternata - Mexican Orange Blossom
14 February 2003
Potted Vegetables
14 February 2003
You don’t need a lot of space to harvest your own fresh home grown vegetables, and with a little ingenuity it is possible to grow almost any vegetable in pots, and there is a range of varieties that are perfectly suited to the smaller garden.
Courtyard Design
14 February 2003
These days, whether we are talking about inner city renovations or the development of new houses on our urban fringe, the trend is away from the traditional quarter acre garden to a smaller courtyard style garden, sometimes incorporated within the body of the house.
MY GARDEN: Andrew O'Sullivan
14 February 2003
Living four stories up, in an inner city apartment, Andrew has panoramic views around the city from his roof top garden.
Planting Small Spaces
14 February 2003
In busy cosmopolitan cities it is often difficult to find a green space.
January
Bonsai
24 January 2003
Plants grow in some very hostile places, on mountaintops, rock faces, coastal dunes and cliff faces.
