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Plant of the Week – Nandina
The Japanese Sacred Bamboo (Nandina domestica) grows naturally in Japan, China and south-east Asia through to eastern India. It is said to be the most commonly used plant in Japan. Even more popular in Australian gardens is its dwarf form, Nandina domestica...
Small Balcony Garden
Greg Vale has always been a keen gardener, but several years ago he moved from a house into a unit. The tiny apartment balcony (1.5m x 2.5m) was bare except for a few miserable, half-dead plants and some kitty litter. Greg set about transforming the balcony into a...
Tapestry Hedge
If you’re tired of hedges that are boring and predictable, a tapestry hedge is a very attractive option. Tapestry hedges are made up of a range of different plants, chosen for foliage colour, texture, flowers, berries and fragrance. In our segment Don showed a...
Question Time – Adelaide
Funky fig Don was asked to suggest a funky, modern plant for a large pot. He suggested two, the Kentia palm and the fiddleleaf fig. The kentia palm (Howea forsteriana) has a slender trunk and a graceful crown of dark-green drooping fronds. The trunk can grow 5-15m...
Stone Garden Edging
Fiona King wrote to Don to say that she was keen to fix the rotting timber sleepers around her garden beds. The timber was not treated, so it had become infested with ants and was falling apart. Fiona had been eagerly watching the program hoping for a segment on...
Kathie’s Garden Revival
Kathie Johnson wrote to Don to say that she would really love some help with problem areas around her garden. One area (5m x 3m) faces due north, the other is a very dark, shady garden (5m x 70cm) along the southern side of the house. There was also a small, weedy...
Shady Garden
Garden designer, Ted Whitley, faced a real challenge when he was asked to create a garden on top of a garage. Ted said that it was the most difficult garden he has ever worked on, because of its westerly aspect, shade from trees on a neighbouring property, steepness,...
Meyer Lemon
The Meyer lemon was discovered in China in 1908 by Frank Meyer, an employee of the United States Agriculture Department. Believed to be an orange/lemon hybrid, it has rounded, thin-skinned yellow/orange fruit, with sweeter juice than most other varieties of lemon. The...
Goldfussia
Goldfussia (Strobilanthes anisophyllus) is a hardy, evergreen shrub growing to around 1.5m (5′) tall. It has glossy, dark green leaves of unequal size, which are stained blackish purple on both sides. Mauve flowers appear in spring, and intermittently throughout...