Chainsaw Mill In the days of the pioneers the wealth of hundreds of towns and families was built from wood. Those days are now gone but there is a new Australian-developed timber mill that is...
Chinese Art ShowPeter Valder gave us a guided tour of 'Fragrant Space', an exhibition of Chinese flower and bird paintings currently on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The paintings are on...
TAS: Sandra and Ron Dyson, 18 Lloyd Street, Ulverstone, Tasmania WA: John Roe, 22 Marriot Way, Morley VIC: Susan Jaffe, Rebecca and Patrick, 146 The Boulevarde, IvanhoeHelen and Don Kirwan, 44 Cornwall...
CloudehillUp in Melbourne's Dandenongs can be found the garden of Cloudehill. It is at Olinda, just an hour from Melbourne. This garden has been owned and developed by Jeremy Francis since 1990 with traditional herbaceous...
Just 10 minutes from Canberra city centre, Cockington Green is a fabulous display of miniature buildings and landscaped gardens. The small buildings are meticulously crafted on the premises. They are scale models of their full-size counterparts in Great...
Coconut Rodney has been growing coconuts for the last 20 years. In fact, he has become the local coconut identity, supplying green coconuts to restaurants and producing about 75 different coconut products, including coconut candles, coconut planting medium,...
Colour HouseDon visited a house that was so bright and colourful he almost needed to wear sunglasses! The owners, Paul and Helen Dickson, bought their home nine years ago. At that time all the walls were painted a bland,...
Colour HouseBurke's Backyard recently visited the Sydney home of Isabella and Jack Klompé. When the Klompés purchased the site it consisted of a Federation house and a plumber's business with garages on the boundary. After bulldozing...
Don took a mangrove discovery tour in the Cape Tribulation area of the Daintree National Park. The Cape Tribulation Wilderness Cruise is the only tour boat permitted in this area, and provides exclusive access to 9 square kilometres...
Corkscrews Jim Pike visited the Delicate Nobby Camping Ground, near Crescent Head on the north coast of New South Wales, to catch up with Len Blacklow and his corkscrew collection. Len has a collection of 650 corkscrews and 550...
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Nasturtiums
While lots of vegies are great plants to get kids started on, nasturtiums are excellent flowers for kids to have their first go at growing, too. Click here for more