Blooms of Bressingham
There are two ways to create a crowd pleasing show garden. You can design a cool courtyard and put in some fancy furniture and big pots and stylish sculptures. Or you can just let the plants shine and hope the judges also take a shine to ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Tibouchina
Tibouchinas are native to south-east Brazil, where people use the massed purple blooms to decorate churches at Easter time. Here in Australia tibouchinas also make quite a statement in autumn, with their riot of purple flowers. Don looked at ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Drying flowers and foliage
Nov 28 12:05pm Save the blooms from the garden or from a bouquet, dry them and transform them into scented gifts or decorations. There are many ways to dry or preserve plant materials. Air drying is the most common and easiest, flowers dried in ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Bulbs in Pots
Hands up who loves flowering bulbs in a pot. Of course the answer is just about everyone. Well don't wait until spring and realise that it has all been too little, too late. Now is the time to do it if you want fragrant blooms and loads of ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Northcote Pots South Australia
Here is some classic potted inspiration for you to add colour to your entertaining areas all summer long. Melissa takes a look at what appears to be a tradition Hydrangea, but with a great modern twist. It blooms on both old and new wood, so it ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
What to do - Grow your own fruit
Gloves on because spring is a great time for planting. The striking pink Magnolia called 'Ricki' has beautiful tulip shaped blooms. Magnolias love deep, fertile, well-drained soil, so dig plenty of compost and well-rotted organic matter, even ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Agapanthus hint
Agapanthus are one of Australia's most popular flowering garden plants and for a very good reason, their summer display of pink, blue and white blooms are spectacular. The trouble is when they are finished they go to seed and this can create an ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
New Release Season Plants
Now are you ready to be inspired, well, get ready to take some notes because I'm about to show you some of the best new release plants of the season. The first one delivers opulent double pink blooms though out the warmer months Sister Emmanuelle ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Rose Book Promo
Every year hundreds of new rose varieties arrive from distant shores to be trialled for suitability in Australian garden conditions. Many of these have been varieties nominated as the successors to old favourites who produce stunning blooms but ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Easter Lilies (Lilium longiflorum)
Easter Lilies are a fragrant lily, with white trumpet-like flowers that blooms around Easter in the Northern Hemisphere (spring). Their popularity makes them the fourth-largest potted floral crop. They were originally native to Southern Japan and ... [... more]
Gardening Talk |
Doctor Bloom's Story
Don Coles is one of Canada's most successful and respected poets. He studied history at the University of Toronto and took a second degree at Cambridge University, then spent more than a decade on the continent in France, Germany, Switzerland and ... [... more]
Random House |
Roses: Australia's Favourite Floribunda Roses
Floribunda roses are pretty distinctive since they mostly flower in clusters as opposed to Hybrid Tea roses (HT) that form long solitary blooms in the classical shape. Floribundas generally appeal to gardeners who grow roses for their display in ... [... more]
Green Fingers AU |
