Colour Your World
The complete feel, look and style of a garden can change dramatically for each season of the year by adding seasonal colour. Get creative in your garden by designing eye-catching [...]
How to Prune Deciduous Fruiting Trees
Winter is a great time to prune most deciduous fruit trees, berries, fruiting bushes and vines. Although winter is pruning time, avoid pruning cherries, apricots and kiwi fruit vines until [...]
How to Prune Roses
July is a great month for planting new roses but is also the time to give your existing roses some attention for a fabulous display of colour and fragrance [...]
What To Do in the Garden this July
The shortest day has now passed. As each day gets a little longer, the promise of spring approaches. Deciduous plants are bare and are storing energy for the abundance [...]
How to Grow Citrus
Without doubt, citrus trees are the most popular fruit grown in home gardens. In gardens everywhere, citrus trees are delighting gardeners with fresh, tasty and vitamin-packed fruity goodness. With today’s [...]
How to care for Cymbidium Orchids
Cymbidium orchids are stunning and are a rewarding spectacular living flower arrangement right throughout the cooler months. Their hardiness sets them apart from many of the more tender, tropical orchids [...]
What To Do in the Garden this June
Winter has arrived and gardens are transformed with the change of season. Deciduous Trees June is the month when deciduous plants shed their leaves and move into a dormant period [...]
How to grow Alliums
The Allium group of plants include about 800 species. There are only a few that are known as edible crops and these have been grown for centuries to add flavour [...]
How to Grow Roses
Originating from China, the earliest modern rose was the tea rose. With centuries of breeding, modern roses are long flowering with it possible to achieve continuous flowering from spring to [...]
Growing Food in Pots
With house blocks becoming smaller and homes becoming larger, the garden for many people looks much different to the gardens of the past. The garden may be a small backyard, [...]
How to Grow Potatoes
Growing Potatoes at Home Potatoes are a wonderful root crop to produce at home and are very easy to grow. Planting certified Seed Potatoes The term "seed potato" can [...]
The Healthy Home Office
Whether temporary or permanent, the home office has become an important space as more people are working from home. A pleasant and comfortable work zone will improve work satisfaction and [...]
