Plants
Know your: Spring flowering shrubs
30 November 2016 | Linda RossFlowering shrubs are the backbone of the garden. Get familiar with these beauties to add some spring bling to your garden.
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Laurentia 'Pink Star'
03 March 2015 | Ally JacksonLaurentia ‘Pink Star’ produces a mass of star-shaped blooms above soft mounded foliage. It’s a plant to soften the edges of borders, paths and retaining walls to fall from hanging baskets and window boxes.
Read MoreLeucadendron salignum
06 March 2015 | Ally JacksonThis South African native brings year-round burgundy foliage to the garden. In autumn and winter it produces a cone-like flower, which becomes woody at maturity.
Read MoreMacadamia integrifolia
06 March 2015 | Ally JacksonThe macadamia hails from Queensland and northern NSW but for a long time it was better known in Hawaii than in its homeland.
Read MoreMacquarie Island
17 March 2015 | Robin PowellHobart’s Botanic Gardens is home to an unusual glasshouse with a collection of plants from Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Robin Powell wrapped up warm to collect stories from one of the wildest places on earth.
Read MoreMeet Chris Cuddy
03 November 2015 | Robin PowellPerenialle Plants is a mail-order nursery for tough plants, but you can also drop in. Don’t miss the chance if you are in the Canowindra area. As well as the plants, there’s an inspiring garden and lovely little shop full of artisan-made house and garden desirables.
Read MoreMeet Elizabeth Back, Flower grower
06 September 2018 | Robin PowellElizabeth Back runs Wild Aesthetic Flowers. Robin Powell interviews Elizabeth here and gets to know what's growing in her garden
Read MoreMeet Florist, Nga Bui
23 January 2018 | Robin PowellLike a loose, just-picked look for the flowers in your house? So does Nga Bui. Here Robin Powell interviews one of Sydney's favourite florists
Read MoreMeet Kevin Collins, banksia collector
24 May 2016 | Robin Powell
Kevin Collins and his wife Kathy grow the world’s only complete collection of banksias in their garden at Mount Barker, Western Australia.
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Meet Pat and Bill Rhodin Tulip Tops gardeners
13 June 2017 | Robin PowellMeet Pat and Bill Rhodin, Tulip Tops gardeners. They work hard all year to make this garden's spring display something memorable
Read MoreMeet Robert Price
02 June 2016 | Linda Ross
Meet: Bob Price, founder and curator, Mexico’s Vallarta Botanical Gardens. Bob Price plan was to conserve Mexico’s unique flora and birdlife and the Vallarta Botanical Gardens he founded to help achieve that were recently included on the list of Top Ten Public Gardens in America you should visit.
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Meet: Angus Stewart
09 September 2017 | Robin PowellMeet Angus Stewart. Plant breeder, gardener and new resident of the Apple Isle. He is also our favourite native wildflower enthusiast.
Read MoreMeet: Dale Dixon, tropical plant enthusiast, curator of Latitude 23
19 July 2016 | Robin PowellMeet Dr Dale Dixon, tropical plant enthusiast and curator of 'Latitude 23' at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
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Meet: Elizabeth Rundle, peony-lover
24 February 2015 | Robin PowellPeonies seduced Elizabeth Rundle when she was just 16. She’s been a fan ever since, growing and selling tree peonies through a mail-order nursery, first in Canberra and now in Ballarat. Here she shares her story.
Read MoreMeet: Geoffrey Head, Nielsen Park bush regenerator
06 March 2015 | Robin PowellGeoffrey Head has spent the last 12 years tending to the Eastern Suburbs jewel-in-the-crown Nielsen Park. Today we catch up with him.
Read MoreMeet: Graeme Parr: wisteria expert
16 March 2015 | Sandra RossOh hello big dose of flower envy. We'd do any thing for wisteria! Graeme has been growing wisteria for the nursery trade for 20 years. Here he shares his top tips for growing great flowering wisteria.
Read MoreMeet: Jodie McGregor, florist
14 May 2015 | Libby CameronLibby talks to Jodie about her favourite flowers and her plans for her new garden.
Read MoreMeet: Mark Engall
15 July 2015 | Robin PowellThe nursery and garden industry has some great family stories. Here’s another one with a lemon twist.
Read MoreMickey'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.
Read MoreNative Violets
12 March 2015 | Linda RossNative violets make a dainty carpet under big trees.
Read MoreNecklace orchid, Coelogyne
16 March 2015 | Linda RossCoelogyne orchids (pronounced see-lodg-i-nee) are sometimes called necklace orchids because of their long pendant sprays of white flower.
Read MoreNSW Christmas Bush
14 May 2015 | Libby CameronThis good-looking evergreen native shrub has three-pointed leaves and creamy flowers in spring. After flowering the calyxes turn a rusty red for a stunning Christmas show.
Read MoreOak-leaved Hydrangea
14 May 2015 | Libby CameronThis hydrangea is a particularly good shrub for either dry shade or sun. Like all hydrangeas it is deciduous, with large leaves shaped like those of the oak.
Read MoreOrnamental Pear
18 March 2015 | Libby CameronThis is one of the most beautiful ornamental pears available. It has a conical upright shape, and shiny dark green leaves that colour dramatically to gold, plum and burgundy in autumn. Masses of beautiful white flowers appear in spring.
Read MoreOutback Bloom
17 March 2015 | Angus StewartThe Australian outback is experiencing a one-in-a-lifetime explosion of exuberant growth and flowering. Birds are flocking to the newly drenched watercourses and brimming lakes, and so are plant lovers. Angus Stewart shares the thrill.
Read MorePaper Daisies: Annuals
18 February 2015 | Linda RossSow paper daisies in May. They will grow slowly though winter, develop a strong root system and flower prolifically in spring.
Paper Daisies: Perennials
17 March 2015 | Linda RossForgo short lasting annual daisies in favour of these long lasting perennial types and your happiness and bright wildflower will endure for years not weeks.
Read MorePayne's thryptomene
07 May 2015 | Libby CameronThis dainty native shrub flowers for a long season through late autumn and winter.
Read MorePerennials
24 February 2015 | Sandra RossWe have fallen in love all over again with romantic flowery gardens packed with perennials. This group of plants offers the gardener an amazing range of colours, textures and shapes to play with. Here Sandra Ross shares the love, answering the most frequently asked questions about this exciting group of plants, and choosing her must-have favourites.
Read MorePerfumed Roses
19 February 2015 | Linda RossSpring brings a new bunch of roses to nurseries. These new introductions are the latest in a long history of rose evolution.
Read MorePieris japonica 'Temple Bells'
16 February 2015 | Sandra RossThis lovely shrub has a few common names including Andromeda, Temple Bells and Lily of the Valley shrub, though it’s not related to the true Lily of the Valley (Convalaria majalis) at all. You might also hear it called Pearl Flower – a reference to those lovely flowers.
Read MorePineapple Lily
20 March 2015 | Libby CameronThis elegant bulb grows with a rosette of fleshy foliage that is green or spotted with purple, and a flowering stem densely covered in greenish-cream flowers, often tinged with purple.
Read MorePink Bulbs
15 May 2015 | Sandra RossSomehow I just can’t escape from pink so I am about to plant 200 pink tulips that I found in Broersen’s catalogue.
Read MorePink Lilies
19 February 2015 | Sandra RossThese tiger lily bulbs turned up on my desk last year (from Tesselaars) so I planted them across the front of our Garden Clinic HQ in spring, alongside that gorgeous rose ‘Pierre de Ronsard’.
Read MorePink Waxflower, Philotheca myoporoides (syn Eriostemon myoporoides)
06 March 2015 | Ally JacksonIts botanical name recently changed, but this plant’s common name, of pink waxflower, remains. So too, does the scented foliage on this medium size shrub, that makes it ever popular in pots and garden beds.
Read MorePlant More Trees Please
06 March 2015 | Linda RossWinter is a great time to plant a tree. Come National Tree Day - which tree are you planting? Let us help you by sharing our firm favourites with some handy tips on choosing a flowering birthday tree that, yep, you got it, flowers on your birthday!.
Read MorePolyanthus and Primula
06 February 2015 | Linda RossWe like them on a windowsill to brighten up the dullest day or cheery winter welcome at the front door. Primula, or fairy primrose, is a delicate-looking thing with candelabra-like bunches of small blooms balancing on fragile stems. The dainty flowers, in shades of pink, white, mauve and carmine, have a faint perfume.
Potted: Sturt’s desert pea
06 March 2015 | Ally Jackson and Linda RossDazzling scarlet and black blooms are set against furry silver foliage in this stunner from the desert.
Read MorePotted: Bumble Bee Petunias
16 March 2015 | Linda RossBlack and yellow is a dramatic colour scheme for a flower, and this new petunia from Ball Australia is creating quite the buzz!
Read MorePotted: Camellia sasanqua
18 February 2015 | Linda RossCooler weather launches camellia season, lets start at the very beginning with Camellia sasanqua. Starved for space? Well here are the top camellia sasanqua for pots.
Read MorePotted: Capsicum 'Sweet Stuff'
03 March 2015 | Ally JacksonThis new release is a high-yielding variety that produces sweet fruit that mature from green to a glossy red.