Bees are at the heart of the grow-your-own game. No bees, no pollination, no fruit. So what's the key to a good harvest, a great floral display and the general well-Bee-ing of your garden? Why, the humble, bumble Bee, of course.
If it’s an explosion of tropical opulence, dramatic flower colours and exotic foliage you’re after, then feast your eyes on the new varieties of canna. Graham Ross reveals how they liven up the garden with minimal effort from the gardener.
What did Graham talk about on radio this weekend? Listen online 2gb.com or download the free 2GB app on your smart phone or tablet. We are on every Saturday and Sunday from 6 to 9am eastern daylight savings time, 5 to 8am in Brisbane.
The first time I visited Cheryl Boyd at her home, Stringybark Cottage, I had an inkling that magic was in the air as I bumped along the driveway through bush thick with blackbutt, bloodwood, tallowwood and stringybark.
What's in the 2015 Garden Clinic Christmas Hamper?
The silly season in the garden means more champagne and less work. Ensure you have some comfortable seats in leafy shade and toast to the year’s horticultural successes
What did Linda talk about on radio this weekend? Listen online 2gb.com or download the free 2GB app on your smart phone or tablet. We are on every Saturday and Sunday from 6 to 9am eastern daylight savings time, 5 to 8am in Brisbane.
With temperatures predicted to soar during the next few days, many gardeners need to give their gardens some instant shade!
To celebrate the first heatwave of the season we delve into what plants will survive today and what designers are doing to show them off.
Whether you dream of an all-white affair or just love having a mass of snow-white flowers to fill your garden, the Ross family garden is a white-out, alluring drifts of bleached blossoms are everywhere. And white flowers have the added benefit of cooling you down - essential on a day like today.
To me, the arrival of summer means thunderstorms, cicadas, beach nippers, mango Weiss bars and streets awash with the magnificent purple-blue haze of Jacaranda. But did you know the Jacaranda wood is used for the body of acoustic guitars? Practical and pretty, we celebrate the Jacaranda season.
I want to inspire you to grow tomatoes, but I’d be fibbing if I told you it was going to be easy. But it’s definitely worth the effort! Here are the tomato-tragic’s three golden rules.
Broadcasting live from Parliament House in Canberra the Garden Clinic is in the ACT this week at the Canberra Home Show. Here’s what we talked about.
The Brisbane International Garden Show 2015 has exceeded expectations and offered the gardening public loads of inspiration with new plants, talented young designers, and words of wisdom from the experts.
Our dear friend, Peta Trahar has a few confessions to make.She has inherited the 'plant-loving gene', and try as she might, cannot resist the allure of rare and unusual plants. Peta's magnificent garden in the Blue Mountains of NSW is full of botanical beauties inspired by her childhood and background in landscape design.
Graham has been visiting gardens this week from Mittagong, Blue Mountains to Brisbane. Sandra has been travelling from Bermagui to Berry Garden Festival. Linda was at Mermaid Beach. If there was a week that celebrates spring – this was it. We hope you got to see something special
Roses are at their swooning best this week. But are you growing the right ones? Here are some we think you should become acquainted with, for old fashioned elegance and knockout fragrance.
What did Graham talk about on radio this weekend? Listen online 2gb.com or download the free 2GB app on your smart phone or tablet. We are on every Saturday and Sunday from 6 to 9am!
In person on the beautiful Mornington Penninsula, Graham Ross and the Garden Clinic team hit the road to bring you a window onto the Victorian Spring Garden & Lifestyle Show for 2015.
To sit or stand underneath a flowering wisteria vine in full bloom, gazing through the mauve veil of flowers, inhaling the scent, and listening to the bees is bliss. A wisteria in full beautiful bloom escaping up a random tree will stop traffic, but as we mention here you don't need a garden to grow one.
Leave seed sown meadows of paper daisies to the experts. We have much more successful daisies for you to grow.
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