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Garden Lovers, Spring surge is again driving more than the odd sparkle across all our gardens and

 CCPLF 15 Growers  link shows you  quick view across good plants to help evolve your plot into the exciting dream garden you always wanted  ….

Whether its Andrew Harvey, Keith Tollis or Colin Hunt at Andy’s Rare Plants, with a cornucopia of useful and beautiful goodies like …

… some beautiful and reliable Ornithogalum hybrids for a sun drenched, dry patch where weeks of late winter/spring jaffa orange, sunny gold or fresh white could be yours.

 And of course, Andy’s is the stall to go if you would like your garden to have a bit of monstrous aroid fascination by way of many deciduous species genii like Amorphophallus !

There are always a few interesting climbers as well, like this Aristolochia galeata – Dutchmans Pipe Vine perfect for a warm temperate garden in sun to semi shade. Watch this space for more posts on good grower offerings and looking forward to seeing you “fair side” & bring your boxes  ! 🙂

Kariong Mountains High School, Kariong, Central Coast

9am till 4pm Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September, ’15    

• Take the Sydney to Newcastle  M1 Pacific Motorway (formerly the F3), to the “Gosford, Woy Woy and Terrigal” exit.
• Follow the Central Coast Hwy towards Gosford.
• Look for the Plant Lovers Fair signs.
• Turn left at The Avenue.
• Then left onto Festival Drive.

 

 

 

 

Maybe you are thinking about what to do with the fairly barren “hard-fest” inherited when down sizing closer into the city .. no ?  It doesn’t have to remain an un-dealt with challenge in the “too hard basket”. Exciting Rooftops are 3 spaces Better Homes & Gardens TV featured last Friday week, with the first one dedicated to my Paradisus design for lovely clients Ian & Noelene Dawes on their swish residential rooftop apartment at Cremorne..

So get your morning cuppa, click the green link above and see if these exciting low water use combinations from Designer Growers Network growers could be right for you or someone you know ..!       

 

Garden Lovers, of all the gardens I’ve made its not often I can show you one that just seems to give more every year.

Ian & Noelene Dawes Cremorne rooftop is the exception…. and do you know, you can see Better Homes & Gardens presenter Jason Hodges show how easy this unirrigated space, made from exciting DGN succulent and water storing plants is roaring away this winter. Hope you can tune in for ideas in your own garden.

Better Homes & Gardens, 7pm Channel 7, Fri 24th July  

Winter fire 

                                                                                                                                                    

Bromeliad gardening…. Enn Zud Style !

Maureen Green has made a living masterpiece in the charmingly tiny hamlet of Maungakaramea, north of Auckland on the way to Whangarei in New Zealand’s Northland.

Here, at the end of a long jewel encrusted driveway, is a bromeliad mother lode. But this is not an artless “pizza garden”, with taste free gobs of colour indescriminately daubed from patch to patch. Oh no, THIS comes from a master eye that sees everything, from the tiniest ruby edged margin to the full visual weight of truly magnificent hero plants.

Such is the creative agility of the horticultural mind; if your large tree falls with all epiphytic occupants catapulted to far flung garden parts, make the unsuspecting into a  magical Tillandsia Water Tank…… Maureen has.

Especially rich in vrisea, neoregelia, aechmea & their interspecific crosses and hybrids, together with myriad tillandsia, nidularium, billbergia and canistropsis  don’t let Greens Bromeliads unassuming street sign deceive you …. GO DOWN THAT LONG DRIVE and you will be rewarded.     

Greens Bromeliads 0011 64 9 432 3759 kjgreen@xtra.co.nz Tangihua Road, Maungakaramea, Whangarei