Our Tropical North Queensland garden tour was heaven sent. We shared a gastronomic delight at the Botanic Ark – a feast of tropical fruits and flavours, the memory of which still makes my taste bubs tremble. A chance meeting with a small red miracle fruit left our mouths feeling confused, as one simple red berry from this bush c...
The little red radish is so easy to grow that kindergarten teachers use it as fail-safe way of introducing kids to the wonders of nature. Just three days after the seed is sown in damp soil in some sun, little green tips appear. And, a few weeks later, the little red, pink or white ping pong balls are ready to harvest and eat....
Australians love a good hedge. But all too often the choice is left to exotic genus and it interests me that people don’t investigate the possibilities of some of our native plants for hedge use. One such plant, is dodonea, better known as the hairy hop bush.
There are about 60 species of the hairy hop bush, so calle...
Inspirations from Chelsea motivate me this spring. I am planning to take a new look at my secret garden, which is a white garden. So I was particularly interested in ‘The White Garden’, which won a gold medal at Chelsea this year for Squires Garden Centres. The garden featured a pretty, white, rendered and thatched cottage, with...
Graham Ross shares his tomato growing advice:Tomatoes are grown across the globe, in both hemispheres and by all nations, rich and poor. Some people only eat them with sugar, others add salt. They are the biggest-selling vegetable in Australia, and packeted tomato seeds and nursery seedlings are the most planted home garden vege...
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