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1 year agoI used to drive (may years ago now) down the Putty Road between Singleton and western Sydney. The wattle blooms were the heralds screaming that spring was coming. So many and so beautiful.
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3·1 year agoObscenely overdue. Reza Barati - rest in peace.
I have created a small oasis between my 2 large bottlebrushes for the more delicate Australian natives and other plants. It’s basically a nursery for younger, less hardy plants. The leaves falling from the bottlebrushes provide a thick layer of leaf mulch.
In the front garden, plants are selected for hardiness in the face of the eastern morning sun and are mostly potted plants. Several have olla water spikes in the pots. This garden is mulched.
I’ve got mates on Mastodon making the same comments about gardens in Melbourne. I noticed this about 10 years ago when I was living in the Newcastle suburb of Lambton.
I had a small garden of agapanthus that used to flower in time for the Christmas dinner table. Then they started flowering in November and were dead or dying by Christmas.
It’s getting worse.
From Mastodon:
Strange goings on in the garden this year.
Gerbera, Chocolate Mint and Sensitive plant, all alive and thriving.
I’ve never seen anything like it, normally all three of these plants would have died before April and yet here we are deep in Freezing July and all three are doing very well.
I am astonished.
#Melbourne #Australia #Plants
3·1 year agoWe’ve seriously been asleep at the wheel for decades. The acquisition of STUFF, the need for moah SHINY THINGS, this is it.
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper
TS Eliot, The Hollow Men
This one seems to be on the money for what you want:
https://www.sgaonline.org.au/monthly-guides/
Advice is divided into months, and when you open up the months, there is specific information for you based on your climatic area.
https://www.lovethegarden.com/au-en/article/what-plant-when-garden-calendar
A nifty little visual Australian gardening calendar.
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Kingston at #1. Ridiculous. Even a pint sized Monte Carlo will beat that rubbish hands down.
This article is from March 2021. The proposal was abandoned after a massive backlash and a Change.org petition being presented opposing the building.
BUT …
Endeavour, the group behind Dan Murphy & BWS, is aggressively acquiring existing commercial pubs.
Yes. Gardeners are everywhere!
The first thing that you need to do is read up on your area and talk to locals to see what they are doing. Or walk around your area and see what people are growing to get ideas for your own garden. Ask for cuttings. Ask for tips. The worst thing that can happen is they say no.
Here’s a starting point for you:
If you can get past the first TWO points on your list, you can ask questions then about the rest. It’s a very broad range of information that you have requested.
Good luck!
This is still very much a work in progress. Don’t ask for these yet at your local nursery. Interesting.
I ventured out into the garden to plant out some kangaroo paws yesterday. It was 21 degrees outside, so warm enough for this time of year. Now I will stay inside and watch them grow. It’s the very least I can do from them. I may hurl some grow pellets at them from the back door.
I’m definitely a fair weather gardener. I listen to all of Costas’ Jobs for July and laugh. “Well, THAT’S not happening!”
Lovely to have a relative with stuff that you want to grow.
There are some miserable landlords around. I’m so sorry this happened to you. Gardening is a joy.
I was dealing with tradescantia (wandering jew, in the vernacular) and oxalis in the garden and blanketed it with cardboard for several weeks. I’m still winning that battle. There may have been glyphosate involved. I was desperate to contain it.