Creating a Tropical Courtyard
Monday, May 11th, 2009Courtyards are the focal point of outdoor living in the tropics, blending privacy and intimacy with relaxation and socialising.
So, how to plant up that special courtyard?
Posts Tagged ‘foliage’
Her Garden, His Garden and Their Garden
Monday, September 1st, 2008
You probably already know what I’m talking about when I say, “her garden, his garden, and their garden”, but have you ever taken the time to contemplate it?
The Native Garden Diet
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Being told you should plant natives sounds a lot like you’re being told to give up junk food and switch to brussels sprouts and bran. It makes you feel like you’ll be going on a garden diet. Lush green foliage and the pretty flowers will be a thing of the past. There will be no more planting of self indulgent cordylines, hibiscus, gardenias or gingers. You’re now restricted to a gardening diet of gumtrees, paperbarks, grasstrees, and if you’re good, a grevillea or two. And you’ll have to tear up your lush green lawn so you can replace it with a nice deep layer of bush mulch with a couple of clumps of prickly Spinifex and a mandatory frog pond.
Fragrant Gardening For Blokes
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Smelling the sweet scent of a delicate flower is usually associated more with youthful innocence, femininity and romance than it is with masculinity.
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