Planning Your Garden:The Basics
The watering wand that has the box head and soft rose water spray has got to be a gardeners most useful watering device. I prefer the aluminium one with a shaft no longer than 50cm. You need to be pretty big an fit ... [... more]
Green Fingers AU |
Global Garden Australia - Australian Plants
lThe Bulbine genus is indigenous to Australia and Southern Africa. The genus belongs to the Asphodelaceae family, though it was previously included in the Liliaceae family. The Australian species are not well-known to Australian gardeners, though ... [... more]
global-garden.com.au |
Recognising Australian Earthworms
Many gardeners in New South Wales may have seen fairly slender but muscular, light-brown earthworms, 10 cm -15 cm long, which, when brought to the surface, move off rapidly with an eel-like motion, bending the body ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Geoff Stebbings
Geoff Stebbings trained at England?s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was Head Gardener at Myddleton House in Middlesex where he restored an Edwardian garden before venturing into garden writing. He has worked for ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Virtual Gardening
To many gardeners, the idea that gardening can be turned into an exciting computer game is very hard to believe. But there are several successful game franchises that feature gardening as a core component of the game experience. Everything from ... [... more]
Gardening Talk |
Ann Ripley
Amateur gardener and housewife Louise Eldridge has big plans for her family's new Sylvan Valley home, situated among the flower of suburban Washington, D.C., society. Some Japanese iris here, some skunk cabbage there ... [... more]
Random House |
Richardson Wright
First published in 1929, The Gardener's Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and '30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little essays is meant to ... [... more]
Random House |
Josef Capek
From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life. First published in Prague in 1929, The ... [... more]
Random House |
Ellen Sandbeck
Many homemakers and gardeners take the easy way out when it comes to exiling odors and banishing bugs--they use toxic chemicals that may be harmful to their families and the earth. Ellen Sandbeck has discovered that ... [... more]
Random House |
Acacia
Many species are short-lived. This, however, can be used as an advantage for the gardener. Acacias can provide temporary screens or windbreaks for new gardens and their fast growth makes them ideal to provide ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
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 ... [... more]
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Fruits & Nuts:Mediterranean Style
Apricots, are certainly one of the most reliable fruits for the smaller home garden in this climatic region. They are self-sterile, well at least the cultivars that home gardeners grow are. 'Moorpark' is our most ... [... more]
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