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The good news first – both plants have beautiful white flowers with a marvellous perfume. The bad news is that they’re tricky to grow in many areas of Australia, and could well drop dead on you. However, Don thinks that they are both definitely worth the...
Don noticed a group of Rainbow Lorikeets feeding in a Port Jackson fig tree (Ficus rubiginosa). All the native evergreen figs, including the Port Jackson and Morton Bay figs, produce genuine fig fruit. Fig fruit forms from an enlarged, hollow stem base or
Native to tropical America, bromeliads are members of the Bromeliaceae, or pineapple family. These plants come in a wonderful variety of sizes, shapes and foliage colours, and many of them are epiphytes. In other words they live up in the forks of tree branches and...
Boronias were named after the Italian botanist Francesco Borone (1769-94). They have a wonderful perfume reminiscent of lemons, which is not surprising when you consider that they belong to the Rutaceae, along with their relatives the citrus. Plant details Common...
Members of the Apocynaceae, or Dogbane family, Mandevillas are native to central and South America. Named after Henry Mandeville (1773-1861), a keen gardener and member of the British Foreign Office in Argentina,they are fast growing woody climbers, with trumpet...
Many gardens in Australia flower for only two months a year and then retire until spring. But at Lambley Nursery near Ballarat in Victoria, David Glenn has a wide variety of perennials that will keep gardens in flower right through summer and autumn. Australians spend...
Don showed how to make a garden that would be highly bird attracting. The garden selected to be made over backed onto bushland and was roughly twenty metres by two metres in size. Before he started the property was a sorry sight. Not only were some of the plants...
Autumn is bulb-planting time and bulbs are perfect for containers. Don showed how to combine them with annuals in a hanging basket. He chose black and white pansies (Viola x wittrockiana) and white jonquils (Narcissus
If you’re like Jackie French and love the smell of aniseed, but don’t really go for black jelly beans, anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) could be a great alternative. A member of the mint family, it has toothed, licorice scented leaves on square stems....
Edible Kitchen Garden Have you ever dreamt of an exotic Lebanese courtyard, with the smell of herbs and spices wafting through the air? Well that’s exactly what the Blitz team decided to create for Asma Sarkis. Asma arrived from Lebanon thirty...