For years I've been collecting hellebores for my Secret Garden. So I was thrilled when Ingrid Nemetz opened her wholesale growing nursery, Helleborus Downunder, in Bilpin, NSW, to the public. Her Open Day in July was fabulous. I found a gorgeous dark orientalis hybrid called 'Purpurescens' with dark blue-black, open-faced ...
Call Of The Wildflower by Michael McCoyA trip to the Canadian Rockies is primarily about that breath taking scenery, right? About peak after snow-capped peak, reflecting in mirrored surfaces of surreal turquoise lakes. In distant second place are the wild animals – the moose, the elk, and if you're really lucky, the br...
Creating a beautiful garden with all the right plants for your climate is a time-consuming and demanding process. Yet it's a lot of fun. So much fun in fact, that afterwards, it's tempting to sit back, relax and wait for your garden to spontaneously flourish. Well, the bad news is that while you might be lucky and your g...
Home and hosedI get cranky when I see people watering their gardens with one of those adjustable nozzles. What a waste of time! The water comes out with such force it simply runs off the garden. Scratch the soil surface and you will discover the soil is bone dry underneath. These nozzles were designed for hosing paths and cars, ...
When I first met Vince I was thrilled that he wanted an all-Australian garden. He runs a tennis school in the bush suburb of Marsfield in north-western Sydney, New South Wales. As a lover of Australian plants and birds, Vince had planted a good array of grevilleas; 'Superb', 'Sylvia' and 'Moonlight' were ...
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