Insights

Engaging Kids with Creative Garden Projects
There is nothing better than getting the kids out of the house, off their screens and doing something good for them, of course in my house this includes gardening. Trying to f…
How to Revive Your Garden After Winter
Winter may seem like the garden has been forgotten about, the lawn is hardly growing, the branches bare and getting out into your garden may seem like a distant memory. I have…
Create A Space To Sit And Enjoy
Hands up if you have a garden that is a central lawn surrounded by garden beds? I see it in so many gardens I visit all around the country, it’s a basic layout loved by so man…
Cost of Living Gardening
There is always a time when many of us reassess their garden space and consider what they want to achieve in the year ahead. However, with the cost-of-living crisis in full sw…
Must Have Garden Tools
One walk down the tool isle of the hardware store can leave you overwhelmed thinking you don’t have a big enough shed for all the tools you need for a successful garden but do…
Compost & Recycling
When rubbish and food scraps head to landfill they breakdown in a very different way than they would do in nature, the sheer weight of the pile of rubbish combined with the us…
Climbing Roses
I love spending time in my garden and one group of plants I’ve been particularly enjoying is my collection of climbing roses as they have been loving the heat and providing bl…
Bringing In Native Bees
Native bees are a wonderful insect that help pollinate all sorts of plants including your veggie patches In Australia there are over 800 species of native bees and many of the…
Lawn Patterns
One of my first ever jobs in garden maintenance was mowing and striping a beautiful lawn in the west country of England. I was, quite uncontrollably, pulled behind a huge cyli…
The Great Aussie Deck
The great Aussie deck is a wonderful thing, a space to meet and entertain, chew the fat, and solve all the problems the world may be throwing at you. The great Aussie deck has…
Permaculture
Permaculture, a term coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s, is a holistic approach to sustainable living and land use design. It revolves around observing an…
Picking The Right Landscaper
The thing I love about a new garden is how it can transform the way you live, utilising space you may have simply not been able to use before. A beautifully landscaped garden …

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