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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Gardening

Head to Ikea Canberra to learn to talk to your plants… in Swedish

Head to Ikea Canberra this Plant Appreciation Day, Thursday 14 April to learn to talk to your plants in Swedish with Plantitudes.

Dan Cusack’s top houseplant care tips

Are your house plants looking blue, not green? Here are some fantastic (and playful) plant care tips from Dan Cusack at houseplant online store, Housemates.

‘Just grow more plants’ urges Ainslie urban farmer

On an average Inner North block lies Ainslie Urban Farm, filled to the brim with pumpkins, chickens, rabbits, sunflowers, grapes, microgreens, pistachios, strawberries, feijoas … it’s a garden wonderland!

Inside & out: Community gardens and 2023 wallpaper trends

The latest in news, trends and happenings for the home... Community gardens boosting children's learning and wallpaper trends for 2023.

‘Sorry, gone nature journalling’: a guide-to with Fiona Boxall

Have you ever heard of nature journalling? One part meditation, one part citizen science, it’s a pastime that fosters curiosity. According to local woman Fiona Boxall, it may also be a means of...

Sustainability: the garden trend of summer 2023

Creating sustainable gardens in whatever outdoor space you have available in your home has become increasingly popular, so award-winning landscape designer Adam Robinson shares his his top tips for growing new life in your home.

Inside & out: Open Gardens return, new releases at Scott Leggo Gallery

The latest in news, trends and happenings for the home... Scott Leggo releases latest winter wall art collection, Open Gardens Canberra is back, try the blueberry pottery trend, and it's pebble season!

Hey, Canberra kids! Do you know ‘what’s in your backyard?’

At first glance, you may think you have very few native animals scurrying around your backyard, but Australian gardening icon Costa Georgiadis says there’s a whole lot more than you think.

Gardening tips for a Canberra winter with Tracey Bool

To help keep your thumbs green in the cold (instead of blue with cold), local gardening expert and leading horticulturalist, Tracey Bool, shares her top tips for winter gardening.

Pick the perfect winter indoor plants

Indoor plants can be the safest option to nurture over winter – but which ones will thrive and which will perish? To answer this, we’ve created a cheat sheet. You’re welcome.

Food2Soil creates food waste fertiliser right here in Canberra

Over 28,150 cups of coffee, 1,820kg of food waste, and 3,458kg of CO2 emissions saved from being dumped in landfill and polluting our atmosphere. That’s Food2Soil’s environmental legacy so far – and they’ve only just begun.

Autumn in Canberra is for composting, turn garden ‘waste’ into gold

Composting is the process of decomposing household and garden ‘waste’ into nutrient-rich soil improver, using minimal output (that is, human labour), for maximum gain (enviously abundant, healthy plant life).

Inside & out: garden watering tips, colourful homes are back

The latest in news, trends and happenings for the home... garden watering tips and colourful homes are back!

There’s a lot to love at Ainslie Urban Farm

Fiona, Michael and their family have been living at their heritage Ainslie property, also known as Ainslie Urban Farm, since 2007.

Sustainable dream homes: Jennifer’s swimming pond

In the heart of Macquarie lies the epitome of sustainable beauty in the form of a luxurious natural swimming pond surrounded by an abundance of native plants and wildlife. Local resident Jennifer Weselaar...

Edible garden

Here, we take a look at how to grow your own blooms that look so good you could (literally) eat them.

In the garden: Winter jobs to do right now

CW gardening writer Tracey Bool outlines jobs to do in the garden in the depths of the Canberra winter to keep it as healthy as possible.

Vince and Cristina’s garden: Fruitful, beautiful, whimsical

Since Cristina and Vince moved into their new home in Isabella Plains in 1988, they have transformed the bare block into a fruitful garden that is also beautiful and whimsical.

Jobs in the garden: managing codling moth, leaf curl

Leaf curl is one of the most common backyard fruit tree fungal diseases, and affects peaches, nectarines and apricots.

Fun school holiday activity: DIY planter box

Get the kids out into the garden these school holidays with a fun activity - a DIY planter box.

Bees aplenty at Parliament House

I was recently lucky enough to join a tour of Parliament House gardens as part of World Bee Day (20 May).

Growing green on the inside

Indoor plants brighten up your home, freshen the air and one’s soul, and they are a perfectly valid and healthy obsession.

Growing lucerne as a green manure crop

Lucerne, also known as alfalfa and botanically known as Medico sativa, is an excellent green manure crop in the garden.

From the kitchen to the garden: Upali Kariyawasam’s creative journey

Over one year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the world, forcing people to stay home and use their creativity to have some fun. For Chapman resident Upali Kariyawasam, creativity has always been a...

Flavour and more with Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti squash, Cucurbita pepo, is a delicious novelty in the summer veg patch. Once cooked it becomes delightful spaghetti-like strands.

‘Quite unusual’: local woman surprised as frangipanis bloom in her backyard

Canberra’s cool climate is usually unforgiving on tropical plants and flowers, but one local woman has a hint of the tropics flowering in her backyard. Local resident Cathy Oswald has been growing her...

Gardening with wicking beds and pots

Wicking beds are an increasingly popular growing system which hydrate plants using a wicking (capillary) action. Essentially, they are a self-watering pot. Wicking beds can be closed or open systems: closed systems...

Good, dirty fun … in the garden

With all the spring rain we had in Canberra, you may like to know there is considerable evidence that gardening is good for your health.

In the garden this week: tips and tricks for spring planting

Spring planting season is well under way and before long, the heat of summer will slow growth and our gardens will enter survival mode.

More than you imagine at National Arboretum Canberra

The Discovery Kitchen Garden at the Australian National Arboretum consists of a large, raised bed approximately 6m long and 1.5m wide.
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