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Meet: Philip Johnson, landscape designer
17 April 2015 | Robin PowellSustainable landscape designer Philip Johnson generated rare garden-related headlines when his ‘Trailfinders Australian Garden’ took out the Best in Show award at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2013. What happened next?
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Meet: Richard Barley, CEO, Open Gardens Australia
24 February 2015 | Robin PowellThe mission of Open Gardens Australia is to promote the joys and benefits of gardens and gardening. Over 25 years garden-lovers have been inspired by what other gardeners have achieved, and more than $5 million has been raised for charity. There was more good news this year when Richard Barley received a prestigious international award. We asked him all about it.
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Meet: Richard Heathcote, director, Carrick Hill
26 February 2015 | Robin PowellIn spring of 2014 an unusual bloom will open in the gardening world – the world’s only Museum of Gardening. It will be housed in the grounds of historic Carrick Hill in Adelaide. Robin Powell spoke with Carrick Hill director Richard Heathcote.
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Meet: Sally Newman
13 November 2019 | Robin PowellMeet Sally Newman, Owner, Yandina Station
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Meet: Sharon Drinkwater, Iris grower
13 February 2015 | Linda RossIrises are in the family of Sharon Drinkwater. Her father, Graeme Grosvenor, started Rainbow Ridge Nursery in Dural on the outskirts of Sydney in 1970. The nursery is Australia’s largest specialist iris and daylily nursery and has won multiple awards for its world-class hybrids. The nursery recently relocated to a picturesque paddock outside Orange and right now it’s overflowing with a rainbow of iris blooms.
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Meet: Sheridan Rogers, food writer
16 March 2015 | Robin PowellSheridan Rogers is a food writer and broadcaster. Robin Powell talks to her about her work and her vegetable garden.
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Meet: Steve Warner
20 February 2017 | Robin PowellMeet Steve Warner, joy giver. Steve Warner, landscape designer and owner of Outhouse Design, is a big believer in giving back. So when Fairy Sparkle needed help making a garden at the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick guess who she asked!
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Meet: Steven Prowse, frangipani breeder
20 March 2015 | Robin PowellRobin chats to the expert on frangipanis.
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Meet: Stuart Pittendrigh
25 June 2015 | Robin PowellBarangaroo Point, Sydney’s great new harbourside park will soon open to the public. Before the ribbons are cut, meet the project’s horticultural consultant, Stuart Pittendrigh.
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Meet: Tamara Cannon, charity worker
03 March 2015 | Robin PowellGreenhouses are producing life-saving vegetables in the high-altitude desert villages of Ladakh, thanks to the Australian charity Lille Fro. Robin Powell spoke to its founder Tamara Cannon.
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Meet: Tim Entwisle, director, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
24 February 2015 | Graham RossProfessor Tim Entwisle has returned to become the new director and chief executive of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne after a few years at the RBG Sydney and RBG Kew in London. Graham Ross caught up with him.
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Meet: Tim Heard, native bee expert
18 March 2015 | Robin PowellTim is an entomologist working in the area of using native insects to control weed populations. Here we talk to him about his passion for native bees.
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20 October 2016 | Robin PowellMeet Tim Pickles, nurseryman. Some of our most popular Garden Classes are those we run with the effusive Tim Pickles at Tim’s Garden Centre in Cambelltown.
Now, meet the man behind the name.
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Meet: Tony Lennon, botanical sculptor
19 February 2015 | Robin PowellTony Lennon shapes rock, tree fern or bone to create a home for an orchid, which wraps its roots into its host to form a living sculpture. We talked with him about his work.
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Meet: Tracey Deep, floral sculptor
20 March 2015 | Robin PowellTracey Deep uses nature as an inspiration for her living sculptures. Here we chat to her about her work and life.
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Mickey's garden
25 June 2015 | Mickey RobertsonMickey Robertson gardens at Glenmore House near Camden. Sounds like a scene out of Pride and Prejudice? Well yes, you do feel as though you've traveled back in time where women wear linen and the air smells clean. Winter, she says, is crisp mornings thawing to glorious blue-sky days. Early morning reveal traces of frost on cabbage and kale leaves; and sometimes, just sometimes, the paddocks blanketed in white. Evenings also have a rhythm all their own as woodsmoke trails through the valley. Here she shares glimpses of days in her winter garden.
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Relaxed style
20 May 2019 | Chris PearsonSydney-based designer Marcia Hosking gave a holiday vibe to this compact garden.
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Roses at Red Cow Farm
21 May 2018 | Robin PowellSeduced by the colour, forms and perfumes of roses, Ali Mentesh has already collected some 200 to adorn the garden rooms at Red Cow Farm. Can he choose a favourite?
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Secrets of Bougainvillea
13 November 2019 | Matthew BiggsJeanne Baret disguised herself as a boy to join her naturalist lover on Louis de Bougainville’s great expedition. A fine botanist in her own right, Jeanne is now thought to have collected the first specimens of bougainvillea in the jungles of Brazil.
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Thinking gardens
21 August 2019 | Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, (c) Sydney Living MuseumsBetty Maloney was a pioneer of bush gardening whose advice on finding serenity in the garden is as relevant now as it was half a century ago.
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Two Gardeners The Cruden Farm Garden Diaries
14 June 2017 | Linda Ross, Lisa Clausen & Michael MorrisonMost mornings Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and her gardener Michael Morrison shared a breakfast of tea and toast and discussed the day’s plans for the garden. Michael filled in a garden diary, as requested by Dame Elisabeth early in their working relationship. The diaries have now been published as 'Cruden Farm Garden Diaries' by Penguin/Lantern, with explanatory text by journalist Lisa Clausen and contemporary photographs by Simon Griffiths. This brief extract shows how the diaries chart not just the garden, but also the attitude of its gardeners to each other.
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