I always listened to my teachers at school. However, I would be lying if I said that I followed their words exactly. Take for example, on...

Garlic is one of our kitchen mainstays. Last year we grew eight varieties of garlic to see what suited the growing conditions here in nor...

We recently completed the construction of two garden beds on a bush block surrounded by beautiful forest here in northern Tasmania. We ha...

Firstly, we would like to apologise for our online absence in recent months. Such a busy time! Ludovic spent Christmas in France with his...

This week, we finally broke ground on a project that we have been working on over the last couple of months! Excavation works started so ...

If you are anything like me, you may have been planning to get out into the garden this Saturday afternoon. However, all this wind is not...

I have been stuck indoors for way too long over the Tasmanian winter. With writing and other deadlines keeping me tied to the computer, I...

When looking for new plants to use indoors, why not investigate your own 'back yard' for inspiration? Australia is home to thousands of p...

2019 has started a little differently to what we expected! I have some new work and Ludo has been getting his creative juices flowing. We...

Happy New Year everyone! You may be thinking we are a little slow off the mark in sending this message out. However, in France it is not ...

So no, this is not a blog about me and my personal attributes! Rather it is about the flowers, and other things, we saw at this weekend's...

Now I am not normally one for formal English gardens. However, today I was drawn away from our hillside retreat to Entally House, an hist...

Given our recent absence from the blogosphere, some of you are probably wondering if we had gone back into hibernation. We have been supe...

Fancy calling a plant "Super Bum" right?. Well that is what I thought when I first saw the botanical name of the Staghorn Fern in print. ...

Good news from our little 'prison farm'. The garlic has sprouted! We were a little delayed in actually planting our Allium sativum bulbs....

We all like to think that we do not judge others. But sometimes, we have a very good reason to! Recently I  had the privilege of judging ...

We made a little road trip to #Hobart last week, ostensibly to attend the International Plant Propagators' Society (IPPS) annual conferen...

Who said size matters? These days our homes are getting smaller, and not surprisingly, our gardens. So how do you do more with less? Visi...

How can an insect or a gecko help American defence, you may be asking? And potentially horticulture at the same time? Sceptical? Well, I w...

While the weather is starting to cool down here in Tasmania, things are actually heating up in the kitchen. Our Capsicum annuum 'Ring of ...