An inspiring country garden near Castlemaine, Vic

By Kirsty, on March 2nd, 2011%
pencil pine trees

Last week I took a drive with my good friend Jeanie to see the garden her parents have created over the last decade or so. They live about an hour from me, near Castlemaine in Victoria. They have creative a waterwise garden, a mediterranean idyll on a hillside in Victoria. Rather than their garden being a pastiche, Bill and Jane have managed through careful plantings of cypress pines and a combination of indigenous and local hedges and grasses to make an original space completely their own. . . . → Read More: An inspiring country garden near Castlemaine, Vic

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Some tips on building raised veggie garden beds

By Kirsty, on February 21st, 2011%
Raised garden beds allow you to make a nice deep loamy soil base for growing vegetables. They are also great for drainage. Image © JK Henshaw.

Once you’ve decided where your vegetables are going to grow, it’s time to prepare the garden bed. If you are interplanting (putting herbs and vegetables among other plants in an existing bed), you’ll need to make sure that the garden bed has been well dug over to remove weeds. . . . → Read More: Some tips on building raised veggie garden beds

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How a lick of paint can transform a garden

By Kirsty, on November 11th, 2010%
Mother and son painting the shed

At the risk of sounding like a Martha Stewart wannbe (I do love Martha!), I must confess there is a strange satisfaction in transforming scraps of furniture, leftover materials and scrappy outbuildings with a lick of paint. . . . → Read More: How a lick of paint can transform a garden

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