Garden Clinic Blog

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

Leave seed sown meadows of paper daisies to the experts. We have much more successful daisies for you to grow.  

What did the Ross girls, Sandra & 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!

Find yourself checking the mailbox several times a day for the latest Spring plant catalogues? Sandra Ross is going postal with mail-order fever, and she has shared some of her favourite catalogue listings for this season with you 

Grab your trusty shovel and your wheel barrow - its time to feed the soil with lovely rich nutrients like a big delicious chocolate layer cake. It's the secret to a beautiful healthy garden.  

What did the Ross girls, Sandra & 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!

Landscaper Michael Bates gardens on a steep shady block in North Sydney. In spring’s warmer weather the paths and terraces invite the family outdoors and the fun doesn’t stop when the daylight fades. Night lighting and fire pits extend the use of the garden well into the evening.

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!

Mickey Robertson is feeling mildly panicked. There are gaps in her plant collection that she still needs to fill (and time is marching on, eeek!). Here she shares her go-to mail order nurseries for the kitchen gardener.

Magnolias may be a dime-a-dozen.  But look closer and you'll find superior hybrids from across the ditch well worth pride of place in your garden. 

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!

The bush was grey a week today, orange, green and brown and grey but now the spring has come my way, with blossoms for the wattle…

The moment Sydney has been waiting for has finally arrived. The gates of the Barangaroo Reserve open this morning, and we talked on air this morning to some of the key people whose efforts have made this landmark both possible and public.

It's been a long, cold winter and we're putting out an APB for the signs of spring in our gardens. Linda Ross describes her main suspects.

Just two blueberry bushes will give enough fruit for a couple to eat blueberries every day through summer. Need we say more? Time to get planting.

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!

Sandra's leading the charge on the Garden Clinic radio show this weekend. Here is what she had to say.

When it comes to winter perfume in plants, you are spoilt for choice. Linda gives you her three favourites

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!

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!

Where are the plants from our childhood? Why are our gardens looking so boring?