Gardening Australia

Australia’s number one monthly gardening resource, ABC Gardening Australia magazine is packed with step-by-step advice and stunning design ideas from its popular team of experts. Whether you are a novice gardener or have a green thumb and years of experience, you’ll find the advice you need.

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Gardening Australia

PLANTS • This month’s pick of the bunch for garden lovers nationwide

BOOKS

fragrant climbers • Looking for something to adorn a blank wall, cover an eyesore or provide attractive screening? These flowering climbers do double time with their good looks and gorgeous perfumes, writes STEVE FALCIONI

CRIMSON beauty • Brazilian red cloak is a lush, fast-growing tropical plant that brightens up the garden with splashes of vibrant colour, writes MARIANNE CANNON

winter warmers • Witch hazel is a valuable addition to cool-climate gardens for its colourful autumn foliage and spidery winter flowers, writes JUDY HORTON

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from wasteland to WETLAND • Meet the Mallee township that pitched in to transform a disused railway dam into an oasis teeming with locals, visitors and birdlife

MALLEES for the home garden • Don’t think you have enough room in your garden for a eucalypt? Space is no barrier with these small species that have masses of appeal, writes JOSH BYRNE

take a seat • There’s deep enjoyment in sitting in a garden, and as MICHAEL McCOY has discovered, the question of where, and on what, boils down to a few key things

sitting PRETTY • Got a timber and metal garden bench that’s seen better days? PHIL DUDMAN describes how to strip it back and give it a new lease of life

gardening in the rough • If you weren’t a gardener pre-pandemic, you probably are now, but getting started with few funds for tools, plants or seed requires a bit of lateral thinking. JACKIE FRENCH looks back at her own impoverished beginnings, and the kindnesses and help that set her on her way…

Save, strike, swap & share

re- growing together • Last summer, almost half of South Australia’s Kangaroo Island was burnt, claiming lives, homes, businesses and infrastructure, and inflicting deep trauma on its residents. Knowing how therapeutic it is to get your hands in the dirt and grow things, and how healing it is to pick home-grown produce, Sophie Thomson set in motion the rapid build of a portable community vegie garden. Here’s how the intense preparations and six-day build unfolded

JURASSIC GARDEN • What would our gardens have looked like in the time of the dinosaurs? TIM ENTWISLE takes us on a flight of floral fancy

the gardener's bucket list PETERHOF in St Petersburg, Russia • Resplendent with gleaming statues and extraordinary fountains, the gardens of Peter the Great’s pleasure palace rival those of Versailles, says JANE EDMANSON

WHILE YOU ARE THERE

JUNE a month in the GARDEN • More than 50 jobs to do in your action planner

IN THE PATCH • Horticultural editor and devoted food grower PHIL DUDMAN shows you what to plant, pick and tend in the edible garden this month

TV • Gardening Australia is on ABC TV every Friday at 7.30pm and is repeated on Sunday at 1.30pm and on iview.

radio

vegie Q & A special • Why did my pak choy flop over and die? How do I know when my carrots are ready to pull up? You asked PHIL DUDMAN these questions and more during our recent Facebook Live session on growing vegies. Here are the answers

LEMONS 101 • Picking fresh, juicy lemons from your garden is one of life’s great pleasures. MARIANNE CANNON explains how to grow a healthy tree

PROBLEM SOLVER

GARDEN GUESTS & PESTS • When these lizards put themselves in the...