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JULY ISSUE
- Sustainability guide: 25 practical ideas for greener living at home
- Daisies: cheery blooms to add colourful sparkle all-year-round
- Rose pruning: step-by-step, how to prune your roses in winter
- Pet germs: diseases you are most at risk of catching from your pet
In the Garden
Sustainability guide
Bonus: 25 ways you can make an environmentally important difference around your home and garden
Daisies
Our plant profile chooses the best varieties and offers tips on how to grow them
Rose pruning
Step-by-step, how to get your roses ready to put on a superb spring show
Kitchen Garden
It’s time to plant stone fruit trees such as plums, apricots, peaches and nectarines, and we pick the best ones to try
Magnificent seven
Winter’s best flowers to give your garden a much-needed lift
Rhubarb
Peter Valder sings the praises of rhubarb, a designer vegie which belongs anywhere you need vivid colour
Hands on
Stopping bindii, planting bare-rooted roses and fruit trees, and lots more
Jim Fogarty
This design solution for a sloping lawn glides down a series of elegant terraces
Leaf blower roadtest
We find the quietest petrol-powered blowers with real puff in our special roadtest
Frost
How to protect tender plants, and what to do, and not to do, when frost hits
Hot new salad green
The latest trendy salad green, mache, is better known as good old corn salad
Winter stocktake
Problem-solving tips for gardens with too much boring shade and not enough colour
In Your climate
Jobs to do in your garden from our around-Australia and NZ team of gardening experts
Sustainable dreams
Permaculture principles help guide this ‘forest of food’ on the NSW North Coast
Bush spices
Bush tucker’s spicy flavour treats include bush tomato and mountain pepper
Green energy
Our handy consumer guide sorts through all your options, and the subsidies too
Pets & Lifestyle
Pet germs
Chris Brown tallies up the real risks of animals and humans sharing their germs
Books giveaway
40 books to win, valued at over $1300, in our great competition. It’s easy to enter!
DIY storage solution
Our DIY storage solution puts all the mess behind recycled timber doors
Flower arranging
Sandy de Beyer shows some easy and stylish new looks for you to try
Energy Drinks
Rosemary Stanton looks at the science behind the claims about energy drinks
Kids' pages
Ellen Skerritt’s pet projects have lots of chickens, plus cats, dogs and lots more!
Great pet stories
Win a super prize from Bissell in our new legendary pet stories competition
Extreme grooming
Pimp my poodle – you won’t believe what US dog groomers are getting up to!
Backyard wildlife
Big black, hairy spiders are on the move, looking for both love and shelter
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