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Great value in garden volunteers
Sandi Pullman
May 19, 2013
You know, I think the world would collapse without volunteers, especially gardening ones. Volunteers save organisations thousands and possibly millions of dollars in…
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Suburban vegetables reach new heights
Reed Pugh
May 18, 2013
A friend recently introduced me to someone who has true passion for vegetable gardening in limited space. This new friend of mine has…
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Roberto Burle Marx's private Sitio
Paul Urquhart
May 17, 2013
Roberto Burle Marx single-handedly changed the face of tropical garden design while introducing to the world a host of amazing indigenous Brazilian plants…
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Growing garlic
Helen McKerral
May 16, 2013
Garlic – yum! Our household goes through a knob a week or more, triple that when I’m harvesting tomatoes and making passata to…
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Who will rid me of the troublesome beasts?
Alison Stewart
May 15, 2013
Help!! The deer are somehow getting into our garden again. Can our international GardenDrum support network come to the rescue with some advice?…
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Sustainability in garden design
Alison Aplin
May 14, 2013
This is a subject that is very dear to my heart. I get quite passionate about the subject so do apologise if I…
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Keeping bees
Sandra Simpson
May 13, 2013
Mike Crosby was busy planting his suburban Tauranga garden with as many fruit trees as he could fit in when he noticed something…
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Edible flowers
Marianne Cannon
May 12, 2013
Why are some of Australia’s top restaurants, demanding flowers of violas, fennel, coriander, peas, rocket and borage? Is there something that you eat…
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Ctenanthe - the never never plants
Arno King
May 11, 2013
Do you have some Never Never Plants in your garden? If you live in a warm climate, you just may have, and you…
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Thank you mum for my green fingers
Alice Spenser-Higgs
May 10, 2013
With mothers being celebrated this month, I wonder how many gardeners can credit their mothers for igniting that magnificent obsession called gardening. The answer,…
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Jud's amazing agave & succulent garden
Denise Ginger
May 9, 2013
I have the Long Beach Marathon to thank for finding this garden. No, I didn’t run the marathon, more like actively avoided it. The…
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Peat-free potting soil options
Meleah Maynard
May 7, 2013
Most every commercial potting mix contains sphagnum peat moss because it’s a good, lightweight, organic amendment that improves drainage, as well as water…
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Explanation of climate codes- + Guest Authors
Photo by Saltdeanbeach
Monty Don has been displaced by snooker on TV – and he’s not happy. The Gardeners’ World presenter has attacked the BBC for ditching his gardening show for what he calls ‘cheap’ coverage of snooker. … read more
What’s the biggest garden show in the world – Chelsea? Nope. The most visited – Floriade? Nein. Perhaps the most unusual – Chateau Chaumont? Possibly, but I think ‘non’. If you haven’t heard of the Jinzhou Landscape Art Exposition then maybe you will not be one of its 10 million visitors this year.… read more
2013 – another Irish potato famine? Cold, wet weather has seen the few harvested potatoes soar to £440/tonne. Limavady farmer James Wray says ”There just isn’t any potatoes left in the country”.
Are the claims true that new EU laws will make trading in seeds by amateur gardeners illegal?… read more
New Zealand’s Department of Conservation is urging all home gardeners in the highly productive Motueka (Nelson) area to look out for great white butterfly infestations in their gardens, and clear nasturtium patches.… read more
Photo by Martin LaBar
What’s in a cornicle? A survival kit for aphids – here’s why. … read more
Gardening is good for the brain, and microbes in the soil could be the reason why.… read more
Dorset Square Photo Sarah Jackson
Remember in the movie Notting Hill, when they climb the fence to get into a private, locked garden? Open Garden Squares Weekend in London: on 8-9 June, has over 200 private, hidden, unusual and little known gardens open to the public across 27 London boroughs… read more
Photo David Hollingworth
Did you know that lotus can regulate its own temperature, just like a warm-blooded animal?… read more
Have you ever felt that the garden pests of the world might overwhelm you? Seems it was ever thus.
Giant snail attacks a Knight. Decretals of Gregory IX, c.1400
