Hello and welcome to iGarden. Anyone who knows me will know that I am 'The Compulsive Gardener' - I love everything about gardening.
Allow me to share some of my enthusiasm and interests in gardening with a focus on the plants I know best and those that do especially well in my own Sydney garden.
This is more than just about plants: it's also about the people involved in gardening; their books and gardens; planting schemes; choosing appropriate plant types; colour selection... There is plenty to think and read about in iGarden.
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It's always a joy to see new planting ideas, and last week a friend and I visited a garden where low hedges using unexpected species provided inspiration for us both. In the spacious front garden of Janet and Lawrie Hayes, magnificent established trees form a canopy below which the vertical lines of the trunks are balanced by the horizontal contours of plants massed into low, informal hedges at the front of garden beds. Lining the same plant up as a low hedge completely changes its character, al ... Read On »
See the full list of what's flowering in my garden this month.
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May heralds cooler weather and the colouring of autumn leaves. And there is plenty for us to do in the garden! Read More »
As well as providing a wonderful background for the warm-coloured perennials and shrubs still in bloom, autumn leaves when they fall on the ground create a beautiful seasonal touch to our gardens, and they are also a fantastic addition for the compost heap! If they can be shredded before being added to the heap, they will break down much more quickly. Smaller leaves can also be raked directly onto shrub borders as mulch.
Patricia asks:
Please can you tell me why all three of our orange plants Leonotis Leonurus have turned white - all together, from one flowering season to the next. They are advanced plants spread out over a 3 acre garden. They were orange for thee years and now they are all white...
It is a mystery and I would love having an answer to solve the problem...
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