Roses: choose a favourite

My trip to South Australia a few weeks ago reminded me why I gave up growing roses. Mine were always puny things, but in South Australia even the blackest-thumbed gardeners seem able to grow fat, fabulous roses. A drive through…

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Posted: November 26, 2013
Comments: 4
Author: Robin Powell

Happy birthday Andre le Notre!

It’s 400 years since France’s most influential garden designer, Andre le Notre, was born. Linda Ross wishes we could throw a party like the one that launched his first great garden, Vaux-le-Vicomte. “If I were a time traveller, one date I’d…

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Posted: November 19, 2013
Comments: 7
Author: Linda Ross

Jacaranda cruise

It was my good luck last Wednesday to take to the harbour with my camera for the last of the year’s Jacaranda Cruises. It was a sparkling day, tucked in between weather that was nastily hot and smoke-choked, and the…

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Posted: November 12, 2013
Comments: 2
Author: Robin Powell

Dame Elisabeth’s garden lives on

Would Cruden Farm retain the the wonderful spirit of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch without her physical presence? This was the question that concerned me when I took a group of Ross Garden travellers to the garden a week or so ago.…

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Posted: November 5, 2013
Comments: 3
Author: Robin Powell