You may have seen Gardening Australia on Saturday night. I was talking to John Patrick about a garden I designed in Woodend North, Victoria. If you’re interested, you can catch it on iView here. Continue reading
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Category Archives: Australia
The Duneira dash
Had to make a quick dash up to Duneira on Mt. Macedon the other day, and turned into that incredible drive – possibly one of the loveliest in Australia – soon to be lined with millions of bluebells. Continue reading
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Stop work, it’s snowing!
What to give the great giver?
What do you take when you’re going to visit Otto Fauser – the great guru of bulbs in Australia. This is a man in a category all of his own, of vast knowledge, and even vaster generosity. Continue reading
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The hidden power of the five-foot backless bed
Most of what I do professionally is biggish to big. I’ll be ordering perennials, for instance, with 150 or this and 200 of that, totaling in the thousands. I love using plants in vast, repeating sweeps, and wouldn’t have it any other way. Even at home, my preference would be to be planting up large spaces with low-diversity planting.
But that form is inherently limiting. Continue reading
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To look at or to live in?
The wall is coming along nicely – thanks for asking.
But as is almost invariably the case for me, simple steps lead to big questions. Continue reading
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Walls of perfectionism
Give a perfectionist a pile of rough old walling stone and a straight string line, and watch him squirm. Continue reading
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It really doesn’t take long
Of course it depends on your terms of reference. A year seems incredibly quick to me, to achieve a full and floriferous garden. But I have had people question me on my garden that I created and opened after only twelve months, along the lines of “It only takes a weekend to create a garden on TV. What took you so long?” Continue reading
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Natives imprisoned in the bush
Natives are having a hard time escaping from the bush. The best of the 1970’s bush gardens by Gordon Ford and Ellis Stones were magical – you know the kind of the thing – huge boulders swelling up through lacy groundcover beneath a dancing canopy held aloft by creamy-barked eucalypt trunks. Continue reading