Monthly Archives: March 2013
MIFGS Highlights
Our favourite new trend in show gardens? Plants! Sandra was abuzz after leading one of two Ross Garden tour groups to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show which just packed up in Melbourne. Perhaps it was the drought which…George Clooney in Hawaii
Amazing what a bit of George Clooney can do! Admit it, was your interest piqued by the title of this post? Turns out we are all suckers for Hollywood glamour. Australian searches on Hawaii have increased 149% since Clooney’s movie…
Cherry blossom forecast
Time to pack the bento box! This week the early cherry blossoms start to open in Kyoto and Tokyo. Japan’s nightly news bulletins at this time of year include an update on the cherry blossom season as it warms it’s…
Monet’s Garden
See it in flower or see it in paint – your choice! There are a few places left on our Classic Gardens of France tour, leaving Sydney on May 23, but if you can’t make that don’t miss Monet’s Garden:…
Gardening for Sabah’s orang utans
Sabah’s orang utans are threatened by loss of habitat. The world’s insatiable demand for palm oil to use in processed food, cosmetics and biofuels has turned much of the fruit bowl of the orang utans’ forest into palm oil plantations.…