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Post Office Farm Revisited
By Michael
Aug 16, 2022
I can’t think of any genus more transformed by careful breeding over the last thirty years, here in Australia, than the genus Helleborus. The plants we had here – that we’d a
PLANT OF THE WEEK #102: Penstemon 'Blackbird'
By Michael
Aug 8, 2022
I’ve always been in two minds – maybe more than two – in regard to penstemons. Yes, they’re generous in bloom, and yes, they come in a good range of colours.  They flower
Lost, But Happy
By Michael
Aug 2, 2022
I spent last week in the second-most remote community on the continent.  Which must make it one of the most remote communities in the world. Besides loving the work I was doing, a

PLANT OF THE WEEK #102: Penstemon 'Blackbird'

By Michael
Aug 8, 2022

I’ve always been in two minds – maybe more than two – in regard to penstemons. Yes, they’re generous in bloom, and yes, they come in a good range of colours.  They flower for an incredibly lo ...

Lost, But Happy

By Michael
Aug 2, 2022

I spent last week in the second-most remote community on the continent.  Which must make it one of the most remote communities in the world. Besides loving the work I was doing, assisting with an art ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #101: Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus 'Cosmopolitan'

By Michael
Jul 25, 2022

So there are miscanthuses that fall into a ‘landscape’ category – that look fabulous en masse, or repeated about – and there are ‘novelty’ miscanthuses that should stand alone – that you ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #100: Euphorbia 'Copton Ash'

By Michael
Jul 19, 2022

One of the great ‘discoveries’ of my unwatered ‘steppe’ garden has been Euphorbia ‘Copton Ash’. I’d admired it, from a distance, for several years.  It’s always hard to recall why you ...

How would your garden perform under the Jane Austen taste test?

By Michael
Jul 11, 2022

So while bed-bound with covid last week, I wallowed in some culture and read Jane Austen’s Emma, having heard from a reliable source that it eclipses the better known, and perhaps better loved, Prid ...

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