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Wonderful Winter
Posted 5 months, 6 days agoAn hour’s gardening in August is worth three hours gardening in November. We love winter: soft soil, weak weeds, a steaming compost heap.....
Fantastic Ferns
Posted 5 months, 23 days agoFerns are so useful and lovable; they manage to look architectural, ethereal, and Jurassic all at the same time. And most backyards can find room for a fern garden, because all they ask is a cool shady zone that is out of direct sunlight....
Dig In
Posted 7 months, 5 days agoWinter downpours give gardens a real hammering, because heavy rainfall can wash away our most precious resource - topsoil....
Hedge fun
Posted 9 months, 9 days agoHedges are versatile, beautiful, sustainable, fashionable..and a big investment. Do you want edible, native or evergreen? Tall or short?[img82]In this photo we're planting a hedge of totara (Podocarpus totara). Totara is slower to establish and a little prickly, but makes a nice thick hedge and depe......
Sowing the seeds for great spring gardening: Green Footprint’s first eBook is out now!
Posted 3 years, 3 months ago