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Gardening / Big news for small roses
The new rose “Calypso”… for every garden.SOME roses can be too big for anyone with limited space. I recently spotted two new roses I hadn’t seen before – Rosa “Calypso” and Rosa “Sweet Spot”, which...
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Gardening / Getting a workout from weeds!
Cats… a favourite in real life and statues since the time of the pharaohs. I LIKE to think of gardening as a great form of exercise. In fact, there’s increasing evidence that those who garden live...
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Gardening / Keeping up with the passion to plant
WITH increased demand for fruit trees and the number of people growing their own vegetables, it’s no surprise to learn that the demand for community gardens is astounding. Even with our seemingly vast...
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Gardening / Growing a taste for persimmons
A spectacular autumn show of persimmons.THE twofold effect of the brilliant orange of ripe Diospyros, or persimmons, and their autumn leaf colour is nothing short of spectacular. I am surprised at the...
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Gardening / Berries pack a healthy punch
Raspberries… extend the growing season by planting the summer and autumn fruiting varieties. BERRIES are some of the most delicious and health-giving fruits. Cedric Bryant. Rubus idaeus or raspberry,...
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Gardening / Get digging up those dahlias
Dahlias… it’s time to dig them up for winter. IT’S that time again to dig up dahlias, lifting them when the foliage blackens after frost, but if this hasn’t occurred by the end of this month, lift...
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Gardening / Locals that love the winter
Canberra’s centenary flower Correa “Canberra Bells”… a compact, small shrub with two-tone red and cream flowers. AUSTRALIAN plants are mainly thought of as spring flowering, yet there is a wide range...
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Gardening / Leaping into lovely liliums
Liliums… a long flowering period and many are highly fragrant. LILIUMS (or lilies) are great for fragrance and long flowering, and now’s the time to plant them. There are more than 80 recorded species...
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Gardening / Amazing selection of new-season roses
Rosa “Best Friend”… a fragrant rose with sweet-scented blooms of rich, deep, plum-coloured tones..ROSE-planting time has arrived and the selection of new roses for 2016 is amazing. Australia has many...
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Gardening / The fragrance of winter plants
The yellow, flowering Daphne pontica. WINTER is a wonderful time for plants of stunning fragrance, especially daphne with Daphne odora and D. odora aureomarginata being possibly the most well-known in...
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Gardening / Planting and pruning time for apples and pears
It’s planting and pruning time for apples and pears.NOT only is it planting time for apples and pears, but it’s also pruning time. Books have been written about pruning these sort of fruit trees,...
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Gardening / Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Cyclamen, the perfect indoor plant for winter. TWO elderly ladies, dressed in their finery at the Chelsea Flower Show, were having a heated discussion on a plant-name pronunciation. According to the...
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Gardening / Time to move those sleepy shrubs
Magnolia stellata… now’s the time to move deciduous shrubs when dormant.WINTER is the ideal time to move dormant deciduous shrubs. It might be they need moving because they’re overshadowed by trees...
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Gardening / Tall tales but true with trees
Here’s that “how-not-to-plant-trees” picture of Cedric between a liquidambar, which grows to 12m with a similar spread, and Pistachio, slightly smaller at 8m x 8m! WHEN either starting a new garden or...
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Gardening / Awesome orchids always please
CROSSING the road recently, a man beside me was carrying a potted orchid to a very ill friend in hospital. Orchids… so easy to look after, almost surviving on neglect. “Everybody takes a bunch of...
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Gardening / Perennial promise of colour
Dianthus… an ideal border plant along paths spaced 15cm apart.NOW’S the time to get serious about planting perennials, which reward gardeners with colour in the garden for years to come. Cedric...
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Gardening / Welcome to the bloomin’ blossoms
Prunus versicolour… different colours on the one tree.THERE’S almost nothing better than a mass display of spring blossoms and as daylight hours become longer (and hopefully warmer) increasing numbers...
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Gardening / Lavender’s love affair never ends
Lavandula “Winter Lace”… a tight, compact lavender flowering late winter into spring.THE popularity of lavender has never waned with the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, through the Middle Ages and on to...
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Gardening / Clues to a woo-hoo new garden
2014: Shrubs laid out in the Melba garden ready for planting. IN establishing a new garden, the “grow” of plants is often underestimated and, like trees, shrubs and perennial plants need plenty of...
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Gardening / Wattle burst heralds spring
Acacia pycnantha… Australia’s national flower first recorded by explorer Thomas Mitchell. WATTLES, bursting out all over, are heralding the arrival of spring. And it’s an ideal time to wander the...
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