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  • 6/8/2025
Gardening Australia 2025 Episode 15
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00:00whoo-hoo!
00:05Hey!
00:07Ow!
00:08Weep, weep, weep, weep, weep!
00:10He-he-he!
00:12Oo!
00:18Hey!
00:20Hey, honey.
00:22Hey!
00:24Ah!
00:26Ha-ha-ha-ha!
00:28Hello and welcome to Gardening Australia.
00:35It's getting cooler and plant growth is slowing down, but we aren't.
00:41In fact, we're not even taking our usual winter break this year
00:45because we've got so many stories and ideas we want to share.
00:49So let's dive straight into our winter special.
00:53Camellias symbolise love and devotion, nowhere more than in an Adelaide nursery
01:01where for the past 120 years the same family has been inspired to nurture
01:06these well-loved, old-fashioned garden favourites.
01:10Today I'm sending out an SOS to all you gardeners.
01:15Our native frog populations are being decimated by a fungus.
01:19Here in these tanks is a simple solution.
01:23So join me a little later to find out how we all can be a part of it.
01:28Do you have a spot that doesn't get much sun?
01:31One of the very best for part shade are the graceful and gorgeous Harden Burgers.
01:36And I'll be giving you some tips on how to grow them for a showy display.
01:40And we meet a gardener who's transforming his family's large country garden
01:45into areas for relaxation, productivity and a growing business.
01:57While they may be piling on the layers down south,
02:01short sleeves are still the order of the day up north
02:04and Gerry's soaking up the sunshine in a stunning country garden.
02:09I'm in semi-rural Mount Crosby,
02:16about 30 kilometres south-west of Brisbane City.
02:20The reason I'm here is to see how a bush block
02:23has been converted into a grand cottage garden.
02:27And I can't wait to see what's behind that gate.
02:29Hello, hello.
02:34Hi, Gerry. How are you?
02:36Good to meet you.
02:37Hi, Gerry. Lovely to meet you.
02:38Welcome to Mount Crosby.
02:39Paul and Paula Herbert bought this one-and-a-quarter-acre bush block
02:4318 years ago.
02:45This is the crew.
02:46We've got Pip...
02:47Hello.
02:48...Bowie and Ziggy, and they're brothers, these two, and the youngest.
02:52Let's go.
02:52You've got a lovely balance of light and shade in the garden.
03:01The light and shade does play a big part in the design of it.
03:04And you've got masses of nectar-producing plants,
03:08grevilleas and aloes.
03:10Yes, yes.
03:10They must be great for the birds.
03:12They absolutely love it,
03:13and I love having them come and visit as well too.
03:16And what they've created is absolutely charming.
03:20Were these grass trees here originally?
03:22No, these were ones that I planted.
03:24They were only just a couple of frongs.
03:26They're probably about 15 years old,
03:29and they provide beautiful structure,
03:30and I just love that glaucus colour.
03:32Oh, yeah.
03:34Now, here's a plant you don't see very often.
03:37Variegated lomandra.
03:39No, you don't often see it in nurseries these days.
03:42Just lifts the garden,
03:44contrasts with the foliage of the darker greens,
03:46and, yeah, it's just a really hardy lomandra.
03:49Doing just as well in full sun over there
03:52as it is here in the shade.
03:54Yeah, very versatile.
03:55And with lomandra being so popular,
03:57you'd think you'd just see a few more, wouldn't you?
03:59You would do,
04:00but I guess it's not everyone's cup of tea,
04:01but I love it.
04:04So have you always been gardeners?
04:07He hasn't.
04:09But I have,
04:10ever since I was a little girl.
04:11I used to get out in Mum and Dad's garden
04:13and clip the hedges with the scissors,
04:15so always like things nice and neat and perfect.
04:18It's the third garden we've done together now,
04:20and it's certainly a partnership now
04:22as opposed to me sort of dragging the chain initially.
04:25You're the ideas department.
04:27Absolutely.
04:28And you're the delivery department.
04:30Feels like it, yeah.
04:31The couple see their garden
04:33as a way to build on Paula's creativity.
04:36She's also a painter and clay artist.
04:39I use all the elements of design
04:42and things like repetition,
04:44colour, texture, unity, space.
04:48Now we've paused.
04:50Next, just some texture.
04:52We have Miscanthus flamingo,
04:54one of my favourite Miscanthus.
04:56I just love the way that it turns
04:58a beautiful orange colour during the winter.
05:01And then you have that contrast
05:03with the variegated foliage
05:04of the Carrack's Feather Falls.
05:06I do use this a lot as a repeated plant,
05:09and it just creates unity throughout the garden.
05:12So I've got Gaimia lilies as well,
05:14that nice, strappy foliage that you get,
05:16and big foliage as we turn to make statement pieces.
05:19And a clearly defined clump.
05:21Yeah, absolutely.
05:22Groups of three.
05:23I notice you've got a lot of Casuarina here as well.
05:26I do, the Green Wave.
05:27It's beautiful.
05:28Loves the wet, loves the dry.
05:30I shape it, or you can leave it to just do its thing
05:33so it becomes nice and fluffy,
05:35beautiful texture, very versatile.
05:37I have a bit of a passion for them.
05:39I have 90.
05:41We have 90?
05:43Oh, my goodness.
05:44That's more than I thought.
05:45Wow.
05:46So who trims them?
05:48Me.
05:48Oh, right.
05:49So you've counted.
05:50Best thing ever with her.
05:51Yeah.
05:51We've got an electric hedger,
05:52and she absolutely loves it.
05:54I don't have a horticultural background,
06:01but I ended up working in horticulture,
06:03and that's just basically because I used to visit the local nursery
06:06and got quite friendly with the staff there
06:08and was offered a job there,
06:10so I feel I'm very lucky to be able to be in the industry.
06:14What a fantastic way of getting a job.
06:17Oh, absolutely.
06:19I think it's the best, you know.
06:20Going from paying them to them paying you.
06:22Well, I do spend a lot of that money back at the nursery,
06:28as you can tell,
06:29but I absolutely love it.
06:30One of the things that I look forward to
06:32is every day Paula comes home from work,
06:33because, you know,
06:34they never know what's going to be in the back of the ute,
06:36which dictates what our weekends might look like
06:39for the next few weeks,
06:40so it's always exciting.
06:42The gardens are roughly defined
06:45by small open areas of grass
06:47interspersed with large ornamental garden bed plantings,
06:51all framed by hedges.
06:53And they're not just, you know, straight lines.
06:55We've chosen to, you know,
06:56bring some curves and some personality into it
06:58and little swoops and what have you,
07:00which sort of create, you know, rooms
07:01and a bit of fun and playfulness in the garden.
07:05Mount Crosby sits 182 metres above sea level,
07:09and while the elevation creates opportunities...
07:12Being that little bit west of Brisbane
07:14and getting that cooler temperature,
07:16we're able to grow the manchurian pears,
07:19snow pears, weeping mulberries,
07:22lots of deciduous trees.
07:24It also presents some challenges.
07:26We do get a really strong southeast prevailing wind
07:29and it sort of kicks in,
07:30especially in summer, quite strongly.
07:32We sort of had to counter that with hedging
07:34to sort of slow the wind down
07:35and protect some of the gardens as well.
07:37Tell me about the Mariah hedges.
07:40I know it's not everyone's favourite
07:41and it's not the most environmentally friendly
07:43because it can quite easily set seed in our natural bush,
07:47but we're very diligent in actually taking off that seed
07:51if it does produce the seed.
07:52So trimming it back absolutely helps eradicate that.
07:57I love the way you've married the garden
08:00with the original forest.
08:02When we got here, it was a real dust bowl
08:03with just the eucalypt trees and a few grasses
08:05and sort of over the years,
08:07we've taken advantage of the elevation
08:09and the height of the gum trees
08:10and incorporated the gardens around them.
08:12And a lot of unsung here is happening in the garden as well too.
08:15I love my rosemary.
08:16Oh, yeah.
08:17Really hardy.
08:18They love the dry
08:19and they don't mind being planted underneath these eucalypts.
08:22I've seen them all over the place
08:24and they work really well.
08:25So what's this building over here?
08:29So that's our chook shed.
08:31So this has been repurposed
08:33from an old kids' cubby house we built many years ago.
08:36We've even got a chandelier in there
08:37because, you know, all chooks need a bit of glamour in their life.
08:40Oh, please.
08:41They've got cathedral roofs and a chandelier.
08:43They do, yeah, yeah.
08:44You both clearly love a project.
08:48Would you say your garden's actually complete?
08:51There's always something to do
08:52and, yeah, that's what we choose to do.
08:54It helps us relax
08:55and I think brings a bit of joy
08:56to our friends and family as well.
08:58This is my outlet
08:59that I, you know, fortunately get to express myself.
09:02I'm very lucky, you know,
09:04that I get to use this as my canvas.
09:14How can you ripen late-season tomatoes
09:17when winter is just around the corner?
09:20Well, as you can see in my tray,
09:22you can harvest tomatoes at different stages,
09:25everything from quite red to really green.
09:28As long as they have a tiny red blush on them,
09:30you can actually harvest them,
09:32take them inside,
09:33lay them out in a single layer in your kitchen bench
09:35and they'll ripen beautifully over three to seven days.
09:39And most importantly,
09:40the flavour is not compromised at all.
09:43Should I panic if mushrooms pop up in a pot plant?
09:47Well, in most cases, no.
09:49I mean, fungi are an amazing kingdom of their own
09:53and they have such an important role in the natural world.
09:56Many of them are mycorrhizal,
09:57which means they attach to the root system of the plant
10:00and extend those roots.
10:01They help them take up moisture and nutrients.
10:04In other cases, like I suspect is happening here,
10:06they actually work to break down dead materials.
10:09So they live in our soil and our forests
10:12and they turn things like wood
10:14and break it down into organic matter.
10:16That's what I reckon is happening here.
10:18You've got potting mix,
10:18which is made from a composted bark.
10:21That's what the fungi is doing in this pot.
10:23So really, this little plant,
10:25well, it's two great organisms for the price of one.
10:27Why do we use different fertilisers for our Australian native plants?
10:33Native plants in our country have adapted really well to poor soils,
10:37very low in nutrients.
10:39In fact, this banksia,
10:41it's a member of the proteaceae family,
10:43like the grevilleas and the haecias.
10:45Well, this banksia,
10:46if you put that into your veggie garden
10:48that you've been feeding up with lots and lots of nutrients,
10:51especially phosphorus,
10:52that probably would kill this whole plant.
10:55The banksia will just keep on gobbling up the phosphorus
10:57and that's what will kill it.
10:59Kill it quite quickly too.
11:00You've really got to watch it.
11:02So every now and again,
11:03twice a year, say,
11:04you can give them a little bit of very low to no phosphorus fertiliser.
11:09You can see on the back,
11:10this one's got no phosphorus at all.
11:13And just a small handful like that
11:15and that'll just give them a nice little kick along.
11:17This is Fauna Park
11:32in the grounds of Sydney's Macquarie University
11:34and it's dedicated to the study
11:37of lizards, birds, fish and spiders.
11:40But the reason I'm here today
11:42is to find out about some incredible research
11:45that's helping save our native frogs from extinction,
11:49especially our green and golden bell frog.
11:53Anthony Waddell is a US-born PhD science fellow
11:57and conservation biologist
11:59in the Applied Biosciences Department.
12:02He set up research to tackle a fungus
12:04that is killing off frog species.
12:09Anthony, great to meet and what a space.
12:13Frogs are really special to me.
12:15Yeah.
12:16They're part of my life, my backyard,
12:18but, you know,
12:19you're really out there
12:22resolving some big problems.
12:24Yeah.
12:24So my research is working on chytrid fungus.
12:27Chytrid is an invasive aquatic pathogen
12:30and it has an infectious spore
12:31that swims through water,
12:33finds a frog and it attacks its skin
12:35and destroys its ability to hold onto water
12:38and also electrolytes that they need
12:40for their heart to function
12:41and at cardiac arrest.
12:43So this is a global pandemic pretty much for frogs.
12:47Yeah.
12:48The fungus has spread worldwide
12:49and it's caused over 90 extinctions
12:52and this makes it the worst infectious disease ever.
12:54Nothing has caused this much devastation
12:56and neither cats nor rats nor cane toads,
12:59none of that compares.
13:01How did it end up getting to the continent here?
13:03So as far as we know,
13:05it just arrived once around 1978
13:07through the port of Brisbane
13:08and it spread nationwide.
13:11Today we're looking at our native Australian
13:14green and golden bell frogs
13:15and they've been really hammered by chytrid fungus
13:19and in fact in Australia,
13:20six species have already gone extinct.
13:22So what exactly is going on here
13:25in all of these tanks?
13:27Yeah, so these are the way that we hold our frogs.
13:30We put netting over the top.
13:31What that does is it keeps wild frogs out.
13:34So wild frogs have chytrid
13:36and we're right next to a pond.
13:39All the frogs there would have chytrid
13:40and we want to keep it out of here
13:41because these are really susceptible species.
13:44So your research has been credited
13:46with solving the problem of this frog pandemic.
13:50Yeah, this is a really simple innovation.
13:53What you're looking at here,
13:54we call a frog sauna.
13:55It's a very simple setup,
13:57a vegetable greenhouse
13:58and a pile of masonry bricks.
14:00But what you may not know
14:03is that it provides a situation
14:05where the frogs can cure themselves.
14:08So chytrid likes to be cold
14:10and in winter there's big outbreaks of chytrid
14:13and just like the human flu,
14:15there's seasonal epidemics.
14:17So there's big outbreaks in the winter.
14:20So during this time,
14:22this is when they get infected and die.
14:24But by putting these out
14:25in the really bright Australian winter sun,
14:27they heat up,
14:28the frogs like to be warm,
14:29they like this habitat,
14:31they increase their body temperatures
14:32and they stop their infections.
14:34So from a gardener's point of view,
14:36you're effectively creating a microclimate.
14:40Yeah, and it's a really low input of work.
14:43It's just a pile of masonry bricks.
14:45They cost about a dollar each.
14:46Put a $40 little veggie greenhouse over the top
14:49and really accessible and feasible way
14:51that people can lend a hand
14:52in helping this crisis.
14:57What's the technique?
14:58Oh, it's a bit of gymnastics.
15:01You've got longer legs.
15:03You'll be all right.
15:04I can see how the greenhouse
15:06serves a specific purpose,
15:07but what's the function here of the bricks?
15:09Yeah, well, the bricks are actually
15:11where the frogs find their home
15:13when they sit.
15:14They're made of clay,
15:15so they bring lots of moisture from the ground.
15:16It gives them a nice, humid
15:18and hot place to sit.
15:20They seek out these little refuges,
15:21these little holes
15:22and the cracks in between them.
15:23Oh, there's one.
15:24So as I pull them out,
15:25yeah, there's one
15:25making his home in the holes.
15:27The bricks are heating up.
15:28That also heats up their body.
15:30They use their habitat to get warm.
15:33So let's grab another brick here.
15:35There's a couple more frogs in this one.
15:37Oh, look.
15:38This little fella's sticking his head out.
15:40Yeah, this is a really healthy-looking
15:42male green and golden bell frog.
15:44And you can really tell
15:45how they've gotten their name
15:46because he has these amazing, gorgeous,
15:49bright green and golden colours.
15:51He's right in the front of the breeding season.
15:53It's about to start soon.
15:55So he's got a nice throat colouration.
15:58His forearms are huge.
15:59And that's for kind of fighting other boys
16:01and to grabbing onto the girls that he likes.
16:04Now, us gardeners are a pretty practical mob.
16:15How can we go about building
16:16one of these saunas at our place?
16:19Yeah, it's really simple.
16:20You get 10 of these really cheap masonry bricks.
16:23You paint them black with furniture paint.
16:25Once it's dry, it's fine for the frogs.
16:27And I just build a little apartment building for them.
16:30And how I do that is I grab three bricks
16:32that'll be used for the base.
16:34You put them approximately your thumbs width apart.
16:38This little gap is important
16:39so frogs can get in between
16:40as well as in the holes.
16:42And then you take three more bricks perpendicular.
16:48And then finally, this is our top four.
16:51This is where our VIP frogs will be.
16:54Yeah, did I buy extra?
16:56Yeah, absolutely.
16:59And then I have one last brick.
17:00This kind of just holds the whole structure together.
17:03And that's it.
17:04That's the brick part.
17:05So now that that's done,
17:07what's the next step?
17:08So we make it into a sauna.
17:10And to do that,
17:11we first have our frame built of our greenhouse.
17:15And then we make it into a true sauna
17:16by taking this cover here
17:19and putting it over the top.
17:23And what this does is it holds in a bit more heat
17:25and also it holds on to that humidity
17:29that the frogs need.
17:33So I put it on just like this.
17:37And I want to leave a little bit of a gap at the bottom
17:40so the frogs can get in and out.
17:42Ah, okay, that's key.
17:43Yeah.
17:44And if there's a little bit of extra on top,
17:46that's fine.
17:47So where should people set a sauna like this up?
17:50So you want to put it where there's frogs.
17:52So around frog habitat or nearby frog habitat,
17:55you can think of a place that has a bit of vegetation,
17:58maybe some water, moist ground.
18:00And you need sun,
18:02somewhere that gets a bit of sun throughout the day.
18:04And what about a timing point of view?
18:06When do you set it up and do you leave it set up?
18:08Yeah.
18:09So in Sydney,
18:10Kitchard really ramps up around the end of March,
18:12early April, so autumn.
18:13And setting them up around then
18:15and leaving them up until late spring,
18:17so maybe November.
18:18And then they don't need to be up anymore after that.
18:20So are other species going to see the sauna
18:22and think, hey, I'm heading in?
18:24Yeah, absolutely.
18:25So we have these set up in wild populations
18:26and we find all sorts of frogs inside.
18:31What an amazingly simple remedy
18:33to a massive national and global problem.
18:37What Anthony and the team here at Macquarie Uni are doing
18:40is helping save our native frogs from extinction.
18:45This is citizen science at its best.
18:48Let's get on board and help him out.
18:59We might think of winter as a less colourful time of year
19:03than other seasons.
19:04But there's always colour to be found
19:07in the wonderful world of plants.
19:09And one of the best sources right now
19:11are the captivating camellias.
19:14From the Himalayas to Japan
19:17and south to Indonesia,
19:19camellias have travelled far to our shores.
19:21But they are well established
19:23as an old favourite in the garden.
19:25There are over 300 species of camellia worldwide,
19:29the two most common being the japonica and sasankwa.
19:33A family-run nursery
19:35in the Adelaide suburb of Tea Tree Gully
19:37have for three generations
19:39been consumed with breeding
19:41and growing these elegant plants.
19:45Dan is the third generation
19:47to carry on the family tradition.
19:49So the most common camellia,
19:54or the one people recognise the most,
19:55is a japonica.
19:56Yeah.
19:57What are the main features of these beautiful flowers?
19:59Oh, large elaborate flowers, I guess,
20:01that are bred for flower form.
20:03Growth habits do vary a lot within the species,
20:05so some varieties are nice and compact
20:07and good for tub culture.
20:09Some varieties are large, lanky things,
20:11so they do vary a lot.
20:12And they've got the beautiful, big, bold, solid foliage too,
20:16haven't they?
20:16Yes, yes, lovely, dark, glossy green foliage.
20:19Generally we say they're best in part shade,
20:22so sort of morning sun and afternoon shade,
20:24unless you're in a cool climate.
20:26Yep, yep.
20:27East or south facing we usually recommend.
20:29But once established,
20:30they're actually a lot tougher than people think.
20:33Oh, absolutely.
20:33They break the rules.
20:34Things like Great Eastern will stand out in the hot sun
20:37and it will suggest that they need more protection
20:39and people are like,
20:40no, no, I've got a big one in my front yard out in the north.
20:42So it can be done in the right soil and watering.
20:46With so many different varieties of japonica camellias,
20:49have you got a favourite?
20:51Oh, yes, it would have to be this one
20:52named after my late grandfather, Roger Hall.
20:55Beautiful.
20:56Which is a chance seedling and raised and flowered
20:59shortly after his death,
21:00so it was named after Roger.
21:02Beautiful.
21:02And I've seen it and it's gorgeous.
21:04It's a formal double, isn't it?
21:06Yeah, lovely formal double.
21:08Not much bigger than a tennis ball,
21:09but lots and lots of petals and a lovely rich colour.
21:12And it flowers in September?
21:14Yeah, around the Royal Show, is that how I remember it?
21:16Beautiful.
21:17Let's check out the Sasanquas.
21:20Yeah, they're a smaller leaf, earlier flowering varieties.
21:24So the Sasanquas can start flowering in March
21:26and go through July.
21:28They used to be mainly singles,
21:30but they've done quite a bit of breeding
21:32and there's more formal doubles now, aren't there?
21:34Yeah, they go right into formal doubles
21:36and a lot of different flower forms.
21:38Sometimes people don't like the singles
21:40because they say they don't hold as well on the plant,
21:42but I like the effect they make when they fall on the ground.
21:45Yeah, make a carpet of colour underneath the shrub.
21:49My favourite part of these is their sweet, earthy smell
21:53and the fact that the honey-eating birds love them too.
21:55Yeah, most of them with the stamen showing have a beautiful fragrance.
21:59And there's so much diversity in height,
22:01ranging from tall upright plants that can be five metres high
22:04down to little ones.
22:05Yeah, there's some varieties which are really compact and small
22:08and something like that would be the same age
22:10as everything else in this size pot.
22:12Beautiful.
22:13The other thing with Sasanquas is that they are more sun tolerant.
22:18Doesn't necessarily mean full sun in a baking climate.
22:21The smaller leaf, they will take the heat a lot better
22:24and the smaller leaf lends themselves to hedging and screening uses.
22:29Let's check out the hybrids.
22:30So this one here is a Sasanqua hybrid called Sweet Jane,
22:41really pretty double flowers.
22:44What's that been hybridised for?
22:46Long flowering.
22:47So it starts with the Sasanquas and flowers right through to the Japonicas.
22:51So it's probably the longest flowering camellia we have.
22:54So that's almost from March, April right through to October.
22:57That's six months of flowering.
22:58Yep.
22:58Wow, and of course camellias are flowering in winter
23:01when all the deciduous plants go bare, so they add colour to your garden.
23:05That's right.
23:06So tell me about these new floribunda hybrids.
23:08Yeah, very free flowering, really stocky,
23:11as hardy as a Japonica and as tough as a Sasanqua.
23:16And look at the number of buds on them.
23:17Yeah, they tend to be very free flowering
23:19and loaded with flowers from quite a young age.
23:24So if you've got a whole lot of different camellias
23:26and you see seed heads form, you could have a go at growing those?
23:31Absolutely.
23:32The seeds will pop out like a little coffee bean,
23:35so they'll be grown on in peat moss.
23:37And then once they're germinated, they'll be potted up altogether
23:41in a big group like that.
23:42These were seedlings from 2019 that my father put down
23:47and some of them are just starting to flower.
23:49So in theory, these are unique plants
23:52which have flowered for the first time.
23:54So when you're growing from seed,
23:56it really is a question of chance, isn't it?
23:58Absolutely.
23:59Yet if you get cuttings of that,
24:00and that would be exactly the same.
24:02Correct.
24:02You'll get a clone of the same plant.
24:04Most people think of camellias as shrubs,
24:16but they can be ground covers too, can't they?
24:18Yeah, absolutely.
24:19Marchmilla is a ground covering form
24:22or a prostrate form of camellia.
24:25So if they were growing as a ground cover,
24:27how wide could they get?
24:28Up to three metres, I suppose, with age could go further.
24:31So as well as being grown in the ground,
24:34say over a rockery,
24:35they could also even be grown in a hanging basket.
24:38Absolutely.
24:38On the edge of a retaining wall or on a bank
24:40that they'll spread out and sort of meander along.
24:45Now here we've got a standard weeping camellia
24:49and that's actually snow.
24:51Could you make your own?
24:52Yes.
24:53If you get a little plant like this,
24:54you can certainly stake up that terminal leader
24:56and take off everything else.
24:58And as it puts on the growth,
24:59train it up a stake
25:00and end up with that mushroom sort of shape.
25:03Obviously you'd need to leave a stake there
25:05to support the trunk.
25:06Yes.
25:06They'll get quite top-heavy in time.
25:08And sometimes when you buy them,
25:09they're actually grafted.
25:10Yeah.
25:11This particular one is a snow grafted
25:14on probably more than likely a hiriyu,
25:16which is a vigorous, fast-growing sasanqua.
25:18If you want to grow a camellia but you haven't got the space,
25:30say for a shrub,
25:31you could actually grow one against a wall,
25:33almost like a climber, as an espalier, couldn't you?
25:36Absolutely.
25:37It's a lovely effect if you've got like a nice east-facing wall
25:40or something you want to cover.
25:42You can espalier.
25:43Most sasanquas do lend themselves to espalier.
25:45They fill in nice and quickly with a smaller leaf
25:47and they have a whippier or a willowy growth habit
25:51that will suit being manipulated.
25:55So if you wanted to make your own,
25:56what would you look for when you're choosing a plant?
25:59Yeah, I chose this plant, two espalier.
26:01It's got lots of nice flexible growth
26:04that you'd be able to tie out
26:05and get that two-dimensional shape to it nice and quickly.
26:10Okay.
26:10And then you simply tie it in position?
26:12Tie it off, cut as minimal amount off as you can,
26:16but if anything's poking out or sitting at the back,
26:18you'd prune it off
26:18and then you'd clip or tie back your growth to suit.
26:23That seems quite easy.
26:25Hmm.
26:25And probably very rewarding.
26:27Yeah.
26:28If you've got a bit of spare time.
26:35Camellias are pretty bulletproof,
26:37but sometimes their foliage can go a bit yellow.
26:39If you're getting a really yellow camellia,
26:41it's often a pH issue, not necessarily a nutrient issue.
26:45Getting the right pH around the 5 to 6 mark,
26:48well-drained organic acidic soil is crucial.
26:52Now, sometimes people also find that flowers ball,
26:54you know, they sort of brown off on the plant.
26:57Yeah.
26:57That's if the flower gets damaged
26:59or even if it gets some dew on there and some morning sun
27:01and marks the outside petals as they're forming,
27:04they'll often swell from the inside
27:06and cause that flower to sort of twist off and abort.
27:09The flowers with the stamen showing in the middle,
27:11they'll often pop open with less fuss.
27:14And another big mistake people make with camellias
27:17is putting a small plant into a great big pot.
27:20We just like to see them graduated
27:21from one pot size to the next every two to three years.
27:26Camellias are multi-talented plants.
27:28With their many showy forms, versatility and resilience,
27:33they'll adapt to almost any space in your garden.
27:36I hope you've been inspired to find the right one for you.
27:44Still to come on Gardening Australia,
27:47Hannah's showing us some long-flowering perennials
27:50that will thrive in the cooler states.
27:53Winter is the perfect time to give your fruit trees some TLC.
27:58And Josh is showing you how.
28:01And we meet a young man who's achieved more in his garden
28:04than most of us will in a lifetime.
28:13We're off to catch up with Clarence now,
28:16who's showing us a really exciting way
28:18to display a wonderful winter bloomer
28:21and really pump up the wow factor.
28:28One of the very best for part shade
28:30are the graceful and gorgeous Hardenburgers.
28:33And today, I'm planting up a colourful container
28:36to really show off the Hardenburgia.
28:39Whilst they're happy in a pot,
28:40as a ground cover or a climber,
28:42they'll provide dense cover to just about anything.
28:45Best of all, they start flowering as the temperature drops
28:48right through into the warm season.
28:50That's also a bonus for the pollinators
28:52in the cooler months
28:53when there's not much else in flower.
28:56Hardenburgia can survive in poor soils.
28:59They'll tolerate wind and salty coastal conditions
29:02and will suit climates from cool temperate
29:04to subtropical to Mediterranean.
29:07I've got a selection of cultivars here
29:09and I've also chosen a pot that's a decent size.
29:12Now, this one's about 50 centimetres across
29:15and that'll give the plants heaps of space
29:17to fill out and up.
29:19To support the plants to climb,
29:21I'm using fallen sticks that I've collected
29:23from around the place.
29:25Now, they're about two metres
29:26and once they're in the pot,
29:29it'll give me about a metre and a half
29:30of real estate for the plants to climb on.
29:38I'm half filling the pot
29:39with premium native mix.
29:41That'll provide good drainage and nutrition.
29:47Now, this beautiful cultivar is free and easy
29:49and lovely white flowers
29:52but still that hint of purple
29:54really is a beautiful plant.
29:56This one is Happy Wanderer
30:06and pop that in there,
30:09I've still got room for a few more
30:11which is great.
30:12Plenty of real estate.
30:14It's going to look fantastic
30:16with so many plants in here.
30:19Now, it's just to work out
30:20the colour arrangement more than anything.
30:23I'm quite busy.
30:41White cluster.
30:42Two purples on the outside.
30:44These should look fantastic
30:45as they grow into each other.
30:47Just go back, Phil.
30:49Get this pot up a scratch
30:51or at least up to level.
30:53Let's go back, Phil.
30:58Hard and Bergea are in the pea family
31:01along with plants you're likely to know
31:03like beans and sweet peas.
31:05Now, many species in this family
31:06including Hard and Bergea
31:08have the useful ability
31:09to capture nitrogen from the atmosphere
31:11and take it down into the soil.
31:14Now, nitrogen is essential to plant growth
31:16and one of the benefits
31:17of having unlimited access to nitrogen
31:20is that the plants can be fast growing.
31:22Now, give them a regular light prune
31:25to keep them in check
31:26and looking their best
31:27after they've finished flowering
31:29give them a hard prune
31:30and they'll bounce back just fine.
31:34Now, it's time to take my sticks
31:36and get my airspace sorted out.
31:39Go for the pentagonal shape.
31:43Get them down on the edge
31:47and try and be as artistic as possible.
31:58And, of course,
31:59what is brown and sticky?
32:02Well, that one.
32:07There we go.
32:08Just tie these off.
32:10Keep them in place.
32:13Let's bring that one around.
32:15There we go.
32:16That should...
32:18All right.
32:21Now, because we've got plenty of soil,
32:23it's nice and firm in the pot.
32:25Beautiful structure for
32:27our Hard and Bergea to climb on.
32:29So because these plants have come
32:30with the existing stakes,
32:33it's worth just getting them out
32:35and taking them out.
32:38Take the others out.
32:40Certainly free and easy
32:42and then a bit of happy wandering.
32:43It's one of the good things
32:44about using sticks from the garden.
32:46The notches provide natural support.
32:51Hard and Bergea will climb up through here.
32:53Lovely form and structure.
32:54Hard and Bergea can survive
32:58on the smell of an oily rag.
33:00But to help them really thrive,
33:01you can give them a feed
33:03of general purpose,
33:04slow-release fertiliser
33:06in spring and autumn.
33:07And every few weeks,
33:09give them a complete liquid feed.
33:11Just follow the instructions
33:12on the container.
33:20Perfect for that part shade area
33:22at your place.
33:24This really is a project
33:25to climb up and into
33:26this weekend.
33:44Here in cool-temperate Tasmania,
33:46we have some pretty chilly
33:47and long winters.
33:49So I'm always interested
33:50in finding some really colourful plants
33:52that can stand up
33:53to our colder months,
33:54like this beautiful wallflower.
33:56These perennial shrubs
33:58come in a range of colours
33:59and I love to plant them
34:00through my garden
34:01to make sure I've got colour
34:02all through from autumn to spring.
34:05Unlike annual flowers,
34:07perennials come back year after year
34:09and often with abundant colour.
34:12But a lot of perennials
34:13only have fleeting flowering periods.
34:16So I like to look for the ones
34:17which stick around for longer.
34:18Here's another wallflower
34:21that's really in its prime.
34:23These pinks and purples light up my garden,
34:25which is so fun.
34:27This one's growing out of a raised garden bed,
34:29but overall they will grow up to around
34:30one metre tall in really good conditions.
34:33But they can also hack drought conditions,
34:36marginal soils, full suns,
34:39and they can tolerate mild frost.
34:42They can also be used to form
34:43a neat short hedge or border.
34:45It's time to prune them
34:46when you see the main flowers die back.
34:49Now these ones are still in full flight,
34:50so I'm not going to do a proper prune today,
34:52but you can still prune the long ones off
34:55if you want to make space
34:56for the young flowers to come back up.
34:58This can make way for new flowers to emerge.
35:01And of course, they also make a great posy.
35:06Come on, Ollie.
35:13This is pineapple sage,
35:16another flowering perennial.
35:18It's tough and hardy because it's a salvia,
35:20which also means it comes in hundreds of cultivars.
35:23Salvia elegans is native to Mexico and Guatemala.
35:27It's an easy care shrub
35:28which flowers almost year-round in areas
35:31with mild or no frosts.
35:34Growing to 1 to 1.5 metres tall,
35:37its brilliant red flowers
35:38provide nectar for pollinators
35:40over a long period,
35:42especially in the cooler months
35:44when there aren't many other blooms.
35:49As if these bright red blooms weren't enough,
35:52you can also pick the leaves
35:54and they smell like pineapple,
35:57hence their name.
35:57You can use them
35:59to infuse drinks and desserts.
36:02I've planted this salvia on the steep slope.
36:04It develops deep, spreading roots over time,
36:07which is ideal for stabilising soil
36:10and best of all,
36:11it's quick-growing
36:12and easy to divide the roots
36:13to propagate more plants.
36:16This salvia loves full sun,
36:18but you can find salvias
36:19that will handle part shade just fine.
36:21You can see these blooms are coming to the end of their life.
36:28This indicates it's a great time to prune.
36:31So, safety glasses on
36:32and I'm going to take around a third of their height off.
36:37This means it'll help it bush out
36:38and make way for new blooms.
36:52You can see the salvia's got caught up
36:54with another geranium plant
36:56and they've kind of become one massive shrub.
36:58That's okay.
36:59I just prune them all together
37:00because they're both really hardy
37:02and come spring,
37:03they're going to bounce back
37:04full of colour and life.
37:07So, if you love colour,
37:09consider planting some long-flowering perennials
37:11in your garden
37:12to make sure your garden
37:14is bright and beautiful for many months.
37:26Healthy crops of delicious, home-grown fruit
37:30is one of the highlights of summer.
37:33To reap the rewards,
37:34a bit of prep and TLC
37:36during the winter dormancy period
37:38is key to success.
37:42With our mild winters in Perth,
37:44it's not uncommon for some varieties
37:46of deciduous fruit trees,
37:48like this Packham's Triumph pear,
37:50to hold onto its leaves
37:51and not go into full dormancy.
37:53And that rest is critical for good cropping.
37:57The dropping of leaves
37:58signals the start of the dormant period.
38:00So I'm helping it along.
38:04There's a trick to removing leaves
38:06from deciduous fruit trees
38:07at this time of year.
38:09You start from the top,
38:10gently work your way down,
38:12and they should just really brush off.
38:14Be careful not to tear the bark
38:16and not to knock off any buds.
38:22With the branches stripped bare,
38:24I've got full view of the condition
38:26of the structure.
38:27I'm inspecting the branches
38:28for any obvious wounds
38:30or shrunken bark,
38:32anything that might need removing.
38:36I do my main pruning in summer,
38:39after fruiting.
38:40But in winter,
38:41with the leaves off,
38:43I can do a final,
38:44detail pruning.
38:46Along with damaged wood,
38:47I'm taking out overlapping branches
38:49and high branches up top
38:51that are beyond reach
38:53at harvest time.
38:57Next, I'm weeding around
38:58the base of the trees
38:59to reduce competition
39:01when the trees wake up
39:02and need water and nutrients.
39:05It's also a good time
39:14to apply granular fertiliser
39:16and compost
39:17ahead of bud burst
39:19so the nutrients are on hand
39:21when the trees need them.
39:23Then a layer of mulch
39:24to keep weeds down
39:26and retain moisture come spring.
39:30It's also a good time
39:31to plant deciduous fruit trees
39:33because there's plenty of stock around
39:34and also,
39:35because they're dormant,
39:36you can give the roots
39:37a good tease
39:38before planting them out
39:39so they get off
39:40to a good start
39:41once they're in the ground.
39:45I've chosen
39:46a dwarf trevat apricot
39:48to grow against the fence trellis
39:49along my driveway.
39:51It will grow
39:52to around 2 metres high
39:53and 2 metres wide
39:55and is self-pollinating
39:56so it will eventually
39:57provide plenty of fruit.
40:04Well, that's a set of important tasks
40:09taken care of
40:10at the right time
40:11and whilst I'm at it
40:12I'm going to get my fruit fly lures
40:15and protective knitting organised
40:17so I'm prepared
40:18before that pest
40:19becomes active
40:20and ruins all of this hard work
40:23then I reckon I'm ready
40:24for another cracking summer.
40:31Last year
40:32we met a passionate gardener
40:34at the Melbourne
40:35International Flower and Garden Show.
40:37Someone who inspired me
40:40for the love of growing
40:41was probably Peter Cundall.
40:45He was probably
40:46a big inspiration
40:47on the vegetable garden.
40:51When I was in Year 5
40:53I got into
40:53like a part school parliament thing
40:56and I was Environment Minister
40:58and I started the veggie garden
41:00there and it was
41:01yeah, really good.
41:03We were so excited
41:04about his descriptions
41:06of his garden
41:07we followed him home
41:08to have a closer look
41:10and we're so glad we did.
41:13Check out what he's achieved
41:14in his family's country garden.
41:37My name is Joshua Ruff.
41:40I live out in Maldon
41:42in central Victoria
41:44on the foothills
41:45of Nuggetys Range.
41:51I designed this garden
41:53when I was in hospital
41:54in 2020.
41:56The property is 16 acres.
42:00It's a very long, narrow block
42:03and there's lots of different gardens
42:05that I've created on here.
42:08I got the aloe garden
42:10at the front
42:10and there's a cottage garden,
42:13a Japanese garden,
42:14vegetable garden
42:16and we just started
42:17on a lavender farm
42:18down the back.
42:30This is my Japanese garden.
42:32This was the first garden
42:34that we built
42:34and it has a few plants
42:36in here that I really like.
42:38The ginkgo,
42:39there's a magnolia
42:40and Japanese maple.
42:43I also like the baby tears
42:44that are running
42:45along the ground.
42:47I love the tranquility
42:48of this garden.
42:50My bedroom overlooks it
42:51and I love looking out
42:53at it
42:53at different times
42:54of the year
42:55and seeing the seasonal changes.
42:58It creates a bit
42:59of peace and calm
42:59for me.
43:01I have Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
43:04I was diagnosed
43:05at the age of five
43:07because I kept
43:08falling over a lot
43:09and wasn't able
43:11to keep up
43:12with the rest of the kids.
43:15I slowly,
43:15my muscles got weaker
43:17over time
43:18and by the time
43:19I was 12 years old
43:21I was in a wheelchair
43:22and I've been permanently
43:24in a wheelchair
43:24ever since.
43:28Can you hold these
43:29for me?
43:30Take them in.
43:32I have six kids,
43:33two girls,
43:34then Joshua was next
43:36and then three boys
43:37after that.
43:38What else do we need
43:38to do around here?
43:40After the lavender
43:41has finished flaring.
43:43We got the news
43:44that he had
43:44muscular dystrophy
43:45Duchenne.
43:47It was,
43:48at first we didn't
43:49really know
43:50what it was
43:51until we researched
43:53and found out
43:54that his life expectancy
43:57was his early 20s.
43:59we lived for the next
44:0115 years
44:02thinking that he
44:04wasn't going to survive
44:05much past his
44:0621st birthday.
44:09During that time
44:10the garden
44:12was quite important
44:13to me.
44:15Sort of the garden
44:16is passed down
44:16through the family
44:18sort of thing
44:18from my
44:20nana
44:21to my mum
44:22then to me.
44:25I remember
44:26growing up
44:27always being out
44:28in the veggie garden
44:30with my mum.
44:32She was a very
44:33avid gardener
44:34and
44:35when I would,
44:36before I go to school
44:37she would go out
44:38in the garden
44:39and when I get home
44:40she would
44:41be out in the garden
44:42and I would
44:42go down to her
44:44and talk to her
44:45about my day
44:46and see all the
44:47veggies growing
44:48and I don't know
44:50it was a really
44:51good childhood.
44:54We should pick
44:55the silver beet
44:56for dinner.
44:57Yeah.
44:58If you go through
44:58and I'll pick
44:59the silver beet.
45:01Yep.
45:02We connected
45:03so strongly
45:05with the garden
45:06side of things.
45:07we both
45:07had a love
45:08for the garden
45:08creating gardens.
45:12He loved
45:12his nana
45:13and pop
45:13and they
45:15spent
45:15a lot of time
45:17with Josh
45:18and passing
45:19on nana's
45:20love of gardening
45:21to us all
45:21and trying
45:22to make
45:23Joshua's life
45:23the best
45:24we can
45:25for him.
45:29This is
45:30the memorial
45:31garden
45:31that we
45:32designed
45:33to remember
45:34my nana
45:35and my
45:36auntie
45:37that passed
45:37away
45:38in the last
45:39few years.
45:40One of the
45:41plants that we
45:41got in here
45:42is called
45:43the Margaret
45:43English
45:44Lavender.
45:45The other
45:46one that
45:46reminds me
45:47of my
45:47auntie
45:48is the
45:48Carla
45:49Rose.
45:52My nana
45:53was an
45:53important figure
45:54to me
45:55with my
45:55garden
45:56always
45:56pushing
45:57my passion.
45:58It was
45:58really good
45:59to be able
45:59to
46:00with
46:01establishing
46:01Henley Gardens.
46:03She was able
46:03to see the
46:04beginnings
46:04of everything
46:05I'm trying
46:06to create
46:07here and
46:07she's quite
46:08excited
46:09that I
46:10named
46:10Henley Gardens
46:11after her
46:12maiden name.
46:16In 2020
46:17I had a
46:18cardiac arrest.
46:20I was
46:20driving
46:21with my
46:22mum and
46:23I sort
46:23of
46:23couldn't
46:25breathe.
46:26Then I
46:26looked in
46:27the revision
46:27mirror and
46:27I saw
46:28his eyes
46:28go back
46:29in his
46:29head.
46:30He
46:30passed out.
46:32So I
46:33pulled over
46:33the side of
46:34the road,
46:34jumped out,
46:35waved the
46:36first car
46:36that came
46:37along.
46:38She got
46:38out of
46:38the car
46:39and said
46:39we need
46:39to get
46:39him out,
46:40I'm a
46:40nurse.
46:41And she
46:41started CPR
46:42on him.
46:43And I
46:43was doing
46:44mouth-to-mouth.
46:46I sort of died
46:47for about six
46:48minutes and
46:49then they
46:50put me into
46:51a coma
46:52and I was
46:53in a coma
46:54for three
46:55days and
46:55then when
46:57I awoke
46:57it was
46:58quite a
47:00scary
47:01time.
47:03And that's
47:04when they
47:04sort of
47:04told us
47:05he won't
47:07have quality
47:07life after
47:08this.
47:09At that
47:09time he
47:10couldn't
47:10talk to
47:11us,
47:11he had
47:11to do
47:12everything
47:12with an
47:13eye
47:14chart.
47:15So he
47:15wanted to
47:16eat a
47:16strawberry,
47:17that's what
47:17he told
47:17us.
47:18We've
47:18always
47:18grown
47:19strawberries
47:19and all
47:20he wanted
47:21was to
47:21get out
47:21of
47:21hospital
47:22and
47:22eat
47:22a
47:22strawberry.
47:23Couldn't
47:23eat,
47:24couldn't
47:24drink,
47:25I had
47:25difficult
47:27communicating
47:27but with
47:28the help
47:29of my
47:29family,
47:29I was
47:30able to
47:31come up
47:32with a
47:32design of
47:33the garden
47:33when they
47:35drew it
47:35up for
47:36me.
47:36And it's
47:37pretty much
47:37exactly what
47:39I designed
47:40when I was
47:41in hospital.
47:49I didn't
47:49know what
47:50the future
47:50was going
47:51to be
47:52and mum
47:53and my
47:54siblings
47:55would
47:56talk about
47:57the garden
47:57that I
47:57wanted to
47:58create
47:59and it
47:59gave me
48:00a lot
48:01of hope
48:01and motivation
48:02to push
48:03myself
48:03to get
48:05out of
48:05hospital
48:06and make
48:07this dream
48:08come true.
48:12One of the
48:13main things
48:13about
48:14Henley Gardens
48:15is that
48:16family is
48:17such an
48:17important
48:17part of
48:18it and
48:19I have
48:20many siblings
48:21which is
48:22really good
48:23and I'm
48:24so grateful
48:25for the
48:26whole family
48:27that helps
48:27out making
48:28this dream
48:29of the
48:30lavender
48:30farm and
48:31garden
48:31possible.
48:34Joshua is
48:35the glue
48:35to the
48:36family.
48:36He's a
48:37purpose that
48:38we all want
48:39to make his
48:39life the best
48:40that it can
48:41be.
48:44To further
48:44my passion
48:45of gardening
48:46I've started
48:47to think
48:48about
48:48different ways
48:49of making
48:51an income
48:51that can
48:52help me
48:53maintain the
48:53gardens
48:54and I was
48:55looking for
48:56a plant
48:57that was
48:57well suited
48:58to this
48:58climate
48:58and lavender
49:00seemed like
49:01a great plant
49:02and it's
49:04so versatile
49:04there's so many
49:06uses for
49:06lavender.
49:08You can use
49:08the lavender
49:09for like
49:10cosmetics,
49:11candles or
49:12for sprays.
49:14it's a great
49:14cleaning product
49:16as well.
49:16Seeing the
49:17lavender growing
49:18so well
49:19it makes me
49:20feel pretty
49:22good.
49:22The smells
49:23that it
49:23releases
49:24like the
49:25fragrance
49:26is just
49:26quite amazing.
49:28I'm liking
49:29seeing the
49:30changes
49:30throughout the
49:31summer months
49:32the lavender
49:33flowers coming
49:34along
49:34seeing the
49:35insects
49:36and the
49:36bees.
49:38Pacific
49:39Blue
49:39is my
49:40favourite
49:40lavender
49:41of the
49:42English
49:42lavenders
49:43and it
49:44comes out
49:45a lot
49:45earlier
49:46than all
49:47the other
49:47lavenders
49:48and I
49:48really like
49:49the dark
49:50blue colour
49:50of it.
49:52Later this
49:53year I'm
49:55having the
49:56Lavender
49:57Association
49:57holding their
49:58field day
49:59event here
50:00at Henley
50:01Gardens
50:02which is
50:02something I'm
50:03really looking
50:04forward to.
50:05We're planning
50:06to do
50:07some workshops
50:08on that
50:09day with
50:10the distillery.
50:11this is my
50:12sister
50:13Cassie
50:14we're
50:15harvesting
50:16some
50:16lavender
50:16that we're
50:17planning to
50:18steal
50:19in my
50:20distillery.
50:21Yeah so
50:22Josh has
50:23a 40 litre
50:25traditional
50:25copper
50:26alembic
50:26steel
50:27which is a
50:28bit of a
50:28mouthful
50:28but through
50:30the condensing
50:30the oil
50:32and the
50:32hydrosol
50:33comes out.
50:34The hydrosol
50:34is really
50:35great because
50:36you can use
50:37that around
50:37the house
50:38as it is
50:39the lavender
50:40water
50:40and the oil
50:42similarly
50:42you can mix
50:44it with
50:44different carrier
50:45oils and
50:46you can use
50:46it in
50:46different products
50:47and things like
50:48that.
50:49We'll just keep
50:49picking lavender
50:50and putting it
50:51through the still
50:51and mixing
50:52around different
50:53mixes and see
50:54what we get.
51:01Before my
51:02cardiac arrest
51:03I suffered
51:05a lot of
51:05self-doubt
51:07and didn't
51:08really believe
51:09in myself
51:10and didn't
51:11believe I
51:12could achieve
51:13anything or
51:14do anything
51:15that could
51:16give back
51:16to the
51:17community
51:18but when
51:19I had that
51:19cardiac arrest
51:20it sort of
51:21let go of
51:22all my fears
51:23and then I
51:24started to
51:25think about
51:26ways I could
51:27give back
51:27to my
51:28community
51:28and be
51:30able to
51:30help
51:30people.
51:33At the
51:34moment I'm
51:35running a
51:36men's circle
51:36which gives
51:37me a lot
51:38of satisfaction
51:38being able
51:39to help
51:40people.
51:41With the
51:41lavender farm
51:42I'm hoping
51:42to do the
51:44same with
51:44being able
51:45to open
51:47up to
51:47the community
51:48and make
51:50it so everyone
51:50just finds
51:51some peace
51:52and relaxation.
51:54I want
51:55to be able
51:55to help
51:56other people
51:56with disabilities
51:57like mine
51:58that they
52:00can believe
52:00in themselves
52:01and find
52:02their true
52:03potential
52:03once you
52:05start opening
52:05yourself up
52:06to the
52:07community
52:07and just
52:09everything
52:10just comes
52:11your way
52:12the doors
52:13open up
52:13and so
52:14many
52:15opportunities
52:15so that's
52:18the main
52:19thing I want
52:20to do
52:20it's sort
52:20of in a
52:21way helping
52:21my younger
52:23self
52:23yeah
52:28now Joshua
52:33is 31
52:33years old
52:34what he's
52:35achieved
52:36with the
52:36help of
52:37family
52:38it's just
52:39amazing
52:40this one
52:44in cool areas
53:03chop and
53:03prop tree
53:04dahlias as
53:05they finish
53:05flowering
53:06cut canes
53:07into 50
53:08centimetre
53:08lengths
53:09lay them
53:10in a
53:10shallow
53:10trench
53:11and cover
53:11with soil
53:12the canes
53:13will root
53:13and shoot
53:14giving you
53:15even more
53:15delightful
53:16dahlias
53:17if you like
53:18berries
53:19why not
53:19branch out
53:20a little
53:20try
53:21loganberries
53:22gooseberries
53:23and
53:24yosterberries
53:25plant a cane
53:26or two
53:26now
53:26and you'll
53:27be enjoying
53:28the fruits
53:28of your
53:29labour
53:29by summer
53:30if there's
53:31a job
53:31for a rainy
53:32day
53:32it's
53:33cleaning up
53:34your boots
53:34get in there
53:35with a stiff
53:36brush
53:36to clean
53:37them out
53:38and apply
53:38a beeswax
53:39polish
53:40to re-waterproof
53:41warm temperate
53:43gardeners
53:43dust off
53:44the secateurs
53:45to prune
53:45apples and
53:46pears
53:47remove
53:47inward
53:48growing
53:48branches
53:49damaged
53:50wood
53:50and shorten
53:51side shoots
53:52to four
53:53plump
53:53healthy
53:54buds
53:54if you're
53:55drowning
53:56in silver
53:56beet
53:56at the
53:57moment
53:57remember
53:58it can
53:58be blanched
53:59and frozen
54:00to be
54:00used
54:01in future
54:01dishes
54:02productive
54:03spring
54:04gardens
54:04are made
54:05in winter
54:06start
54:07building up
54:07vacant
54:08beds
54:08with
54:08manure
54:09and
54:09compost
54:09now
54:10so
54:10they'll
54:11have
54:11time
54:11to
54:11mature
54:12for
54:12spring
54:13plantings
54:13in the
54:15subtropics
54:16continue
54:16to harvest
54:17papayas
54:18if garden
54:19interlopers
54:19are getting
54:20to them
54:20before you
54:21do
54:21remember
54:22they'll
54:23ripen
54:23easily
54:24indoors
54:24save
54:25some space
54:26for
54:26Mary Washington
54:27asparagus
54:28tube
54:29stock
54:29or crowns
54:30can be
54:31planted
54:31now
54:32and foliage
54:33cut to
54:33the ground
54:34harvest
54:35in as
54:35little
54:35as
54:36two
54:36years
54:37need
54:38a
54:38no
54:38fuss
54:38native
54:39ground
54:39cover
54:39check out
54:40creeping
54:41boobiala
54:42it's a
54:43leafy
54:43ground
54:43cover
54:44and will
54:44rapidly
54:45form
54:45a
54:45dense
54:46mat
54:46in a
54:47sunny
54:47spot
54:47smothering
54:48out
54:49weeds
54:49in
54:50tropical
54:51areas
54:51if your
54:52bougainvillea
54:52have
54:53finished
54:53flowering
54:54put on
54:54gloves
54:55glasses
54:55and long
54:56sleeves
54:56and get
54:57stuck
54:58into
54:58them
54:58they love
54:59a heavy
55:00hackback
55:00flowering
55:01on new
55:02growth
55:02it's time
55:04to get
55:04ginger
55:04into the
55:05ground
55:05at your
55:06place
55:06find a
55:07sheltered
55:08spot
55:08with rich
55:09moist
55:09soil
55:09and plant
55:10your
55:11rhizomes
55:11it's the
55:12perfect time
55:13of year
55:13to show
55:14your potted
55:14herbs
55:15some TLC
55:16refresh
55:17tired potting
55:18mix
55:18give them
55:19a feed
55:20and don't
55:20forget
55:21to mulch
55:21your pots
55:22in arid
55:24in arid
55:24areas
55:24get on
55:25to
55:25asafoetida
55:26used
55:27as a
55:27spice
55:28since
55:28the days
55:28of the
55:29ancient
55:29Greeks
55:29grow it
55:30in open
55:31sun
55:31and good
55:32drainage
55:32the stems
55:34might stink
55:34but it
55:35disappears
55:36when cooked
55:37leaving
55:37a signature
55:38taste
55:39nothing
55:39can
55:39replace
55:40water
55:41straight
55:42from the
55:42tank
55:42or tap
55:43can be
55:43too chilly
55:44for the
55:45delicate
55:45roots
55:45of many
55:46indoor
55:46plants
55:47so it's
55:48a great
55:48idea
55:48to treat
55:49them
55:49to room
55:50temperature
55:50or tepid
55:51water
55:52over
55:52winter
55:52while
55:53we're
55:54on
55:54water
55:54now's
55:55a good
55:55time
55:55to flush
55:56out
55:56the lines
55:57of your
55:57drip
55:57irrigation
55:58pipes
55:58can become
55:59clogged
56:00with soil
56:00particles
56:01and mineral
56:02residues
56:02in the
56:03water
56:03so opening
56:04one end
56:05and letting
56:05it flow
56:06can clear
56:07it all
56:07out
56:08welcome
56:09to winter
56:10gardeners
56:10if you need
56:11to take
56:11cover from
56:12the weather
56:12out there
56:13remember
56:14you can
56:14always head
56:15to ABC
56:16iview
56:16to catch
56:17up on
56:18gardening
56:18Australia
56:19anytime
56:19I'm looking
56:26forward to
56:26next week
56:27when we
56:27bring you
56:28a show
56:28packed
56:29with the
56:30latest
56:30floral
56:31garden
56:31and design
56:32ideas
56:33I'll see
56:34you then
56:34this week
56:37we're coming
56:38to you
56:38from the
56:39biggest
56:39garden
56:40show
56:40in the
56:40southern
56:41hemisphere
56:41Sophie's
56:45finding out
56:45what's
56:46blooming
56:46good
56:47just a
56:47profusion
56:47of
56:48different
56:48flowers
56:48that the
56:49public
56:49can come
56:50in and
56:50just
56:50absolutely
56:51feast
56:51their
56:51eyes
56:52and enjoy
56:52Millie
56:54and I
56:54will be
56:55getting
56:55amongst
56:55the
56:55greenery
56:56to check
56:57out
56:57the latest
56:57design
56:58trends
56:59and
56:59popular
56:59plants
57:00and we're
57:04getting
57:04up close
57:05and personal
57:05to answer
57:06your
57:07gardening
57:07questions
57:08what do
57:09you need
57:09to know
57:09about
57:10your
57:10garden
57:10but I
57:11think
57:11it's
57:11plastic
57:12this is
57:13an
57:14heirloom
57:14tomato
57:15I think
57:17the most
57:17valuable
57:17place
57:18for this
57:18might
57:19be
57:19in
57:20the
57:20compost
57:20I
57:21tried
57:22that
57:22didn't
57:22work
57:22for me
57:23I got
57:23a costed
57:24oh did
57:24you
57:24get it
57:25a costed