While winter gardens can be a bit bare, especially in cooler regions, there’s nothing a pot of winter flower colour can’t fix. At this time of year garden centres are brimming with colourful annuals all begging to be taken home and planted to...
Every garden has hard-to-plant spots – a shaded patch where few things grow, a scorchingly hot corner or a wind-whipped area. Rather than trying to alter these conditions, it might be time to accept them, and to embrace the plants that thrive in...
Shallot, scallion, green onion, spring onion… if ever there was a vegetable with an identity crisis, this is it. Whatever you call it, it’s easily one of the most useful and versatile plants you can grow. For the record, the most appropriate...
Gardeners sometimes ask why they need to prune. Plants in nature aren’t pruned, they argue, so why can’t we just leave them to do their own thing? In many cases we can. Plenty of plants grow perfectly happily if never pruned. But there are often...
Kerry Beake feels even closer to family, friends and nature after creating her native-filled garden Alove of Western Australia’s unique native flora flows through Kerry Beake’s veins. As a child, she was introduced to wildflowers and bush...
