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Gardening Australia

Apr 01 2020
Magazine

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.

Welcome

STAY IN TOUCH

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

PRODUCTS

Gardening Australia

BOOKS

APRIL • Your guide to garden shows and events around the country this month

tell us about your event

20 flowers to sow now! • It’s easy and rewarding to grow your own beautiful cut flowers, says JENNIFER STACKHOUSE

direct sowing

20 flowers sowing chart • Follow this chart to sow flower seeds for your climate zone in autumn and winter

sharp shooters • Spider plants have been around for decades, but a new generation of retro-cool gardeners has put them back in the spotlight, writes ARNO KING

top picks

jeepers creepers • Even if your garden is small, it’s easy to have beautiful autumn foliage with these plants that grow onwards and upwards, writes JANE EDMANSON

MAINTENANCE WARNING

BUSH in the ’BURBS • A stone’s throw from the beach, this cleverly designed Perth garden uses recycled materials and endemic species that need only occasional watering

A fresh start • Losing a garden to bushfire is devastating, but with the right soil remediation and planning, it’s possible for gardens to be rebuilt and thrive, writes SOPHIE THOMSON

PLANTS WITH LOW FLAMMABILITY

beauty FROM THE ASHES • It’s 11 years since the Black Saturday fires in Victoria claimed 173 lives, thousands of homes and 450,000ha of land. Here, three couples share what they learnt as they rebuilt their lives and their gardens

why you need pansies with your onions • When planted with pansies, onions grow mysteriously bigger, and the vegie patch prettier, writes JACKIE FRENCH

the gardener’s bucket list THE GIANT’S HOUSE in Akaroa, New Zealand • Populated with whimsical characters, this artist’s garden on the South Island is designed to delight and surprise, writes MICHAEL McCOY

WHILE YOU ARE THERE

APRIL 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

PLANT it NOW STRAWBERRY

PICK it NOW ASIAN GREENS

Phil’s FOOD CHALLENGE

CROPS IN POTS

forever yours • A choko vine has a stubborn streak almost unmatched in the vegie garden. You can expect a lot of fruit, so it pays to know how to cook them, writes JACKIE FRENCH

cooking with chokos

instant PATCH • Two beds, two people, two hours, and less than a hundred bucks. What are you waiting for?

NO-DIG MAINTENANCE

AVOID A WASHOUT

GARDEN GUESTS & PESTS • Australian bush rats have a pretty good chance of surviving bushfires, says LEONARD CRONIN

mass exodus • Animal, vegetable or mineral? The origin of this jelly-like substance may surprise you, says MARTYN ROBINSON

MAILBOX

write and win!

Your Insta posts

gleam team

how to enter

WINNERS

radio • For details of programs on your local ABC station, call 139 994 or visit abc.net.au/local

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

the big picture • Amid a deluge of doubtful descriptors, the risk of showers is a forecast most fine, writes MICHAEL McCOY


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 100 Publisher: Nextmedia Pty Ltd Edition: Apr 01 2020

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  • Release date: March 15, 2020

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Languages

English

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.

Welcome

STAY IN TOUCH

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

PRODUCTS

Gardening Australia

BOOKS

APRIL • Your guide to garden shows and events around the country this month

tell us about your event

20 flowers to sow now! • It’s easy and rewarding to grow your own beautiful cut flowers, says JENNIFER STACKHOUSE

direct sowing

20 flowers sowing chart • Follow this chart to sow flower seeds for your climate zone in autumn and winter

sharp shooters • Spider plants have been around for decades, but a new generation of retro-cool gardeners has put them back in the spotlight, writes ARNO KING

top picks

jeepers creepers • Even if your garden is small, it’s easy to have beautiful autumn foliage with these plants that grow onwards and upwards, writes JANE EDMANSON

MAINTENANCE WARNING

BUSH in the ’BURBS • A stone’s throw from the beach, this cleverly designed Perth garden uses recycled materials and endemic species that need only occasional watering

A fresh start • Losing a garden to bushfire is devastating, but with the right soil remediation and planning, it’s possible for gardens to be rebuilt and thrive, writes SOPHIE THOMSON

PLANTS WITH LOW FLAMMABILITY

beauty FROM THE ASHES • It’s 11 years since the Black Saturday fires in Victoria claimed 173 lives, thousands of homes and 450,000ha of land. Here, three couples share what they learnt as they rebuilt their lives and their gardens

why you need pansies with your onions • When planted with pansies, onions grow mysteriously bigger, and the vegie patch prettier, writes JACKIE FRENCH

the gardener’s bucket list THE GIANT’S HOUSE in Akaroa, New Zealand • Populated with whimsical characters, this artist’s garden on the South Island is designed to delight and surprise, writes MICHAEL McCOY

WHILE YOU ARE THERE

APRIL 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

PLANT it NOW STRAWBERRY

PICK it NOW ASIAN GREENS

Phil’s FOOD CHALLENGE

CROPS IN POTS

forever yours • A choko vine has a stubborn streak almost unmatched in the vegie garden. You can expect a lot of fruit, so it pays to know how to cook them, writes JACKIE FRENCH

cooking with chokos

instant PATCH • Two beds, two people, two hours, and less than a hundred bucks. What are you waiting for?

NO-DIG MAINTENANCE

AVOID A WASHOUT

GARDEN GUESTS & PESTS • Australian bush rats have a pretty good chance of surviving bushfires, says LEONARD CRONIN

mass exodus • Animal, vegetable or mineral? The origin of this jelly-like substance may surprise you, says MARTYN ROBINSON

MAILBOX

write and win!

Your Insta posts

gleam team

how to enter

WINNERS

radio • For details of programs on your local ABC station, call 139 994 or visit abc.net.au/local

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

the big picture • Amid a deluge of doubtful descriptors, the risk of showers is a forecast most fine, writes MICHAEL McCOY


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