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 that our client can ...

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 exactly making for ...

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 have been itching t...

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

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 also have our hands...

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 uncommon for people ...

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 Festival of Roses h...

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

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

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. Platycerium superbum...

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

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 the i-Plants Magazin...

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

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

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

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

Following on from their successful Energy Expo last year, Tamar Natural Resource Management (NRM) has decided to give this year's event a broader sustainable...

"Grass trees in halls, and queens on their thrones, Hills Hoists on lawns, and an Elkhorn alone" ... these were a few of our favourite things at this year's ...

Check out the first batch of articles I have written for the Nursery and Garden Industry Australia (NGIA). Following on from the NGIA “Growing Edge” conferen...

I headed out yesterday desperately seeking garlic. No, Tasmania had not suddenly been invaded by vampires. I had received notice that Jenny Edlington was sel...