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Community Gardening Discussion
Melanie Burns shares some of the joys and challenges she encountered this season in her urban community garden plot.
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Autumn - Time For Change
Autumn is the best time of year to start making changes to your garden
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Our Gardens
I like a romantic garden, a secret garden, a garden from my fairy books that I read so avidly when very young.
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Pride in the Fall of Autumn
The perfumes will fill your head with happiness and the beauty will swamp your very being. There will be no Sense but plenty of Sensibility and no Predjudice but heaps of Pride.
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The Bloomin' Winter Garden
I look out the window and see the Autumn cherry trees are in full bloom, covering their branches with sweet little star-like flowers.
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THE GARDEN IS A LIVING THING
No! I cannot accept that! By its very nature, a garden is a living thing. An old garden always retains the story of the many gardeners who have toiled with love in its borders.
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The Plantsman is for You
An introduction to the Plantsman column, including the direction I hope to take it, organization of links and a discussion topic area for feedback. Read this then tell me how I can serve you.
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The Best of Q and A
Need to find out what's chewing holes in your hosta or when to prune your lilacs? Here are the editor's picks of the best sites to ask garden questions and get answers you can grow on...
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Flower Gardeners II
Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti
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A Beautiful Garden
Is my garden beautiful? People tell me it is but do I ever take a moment to see if I think the same?
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Gardeners in the Deep South
The rumours that Australians work in the garden with their feet in the air is a slight exaggeration

Spirals of Broken Glass (Hampton Court Flower Show 1999)
Report on the show gardens and plant displays at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 1999
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A Picture is worth a Thousand Words
The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” is only part true. I cannot give you the pleasure of smelling the perfumes which so many of the Rhododendrons (especially the whites) gladden my senses by my amateurish snaps.

Autumn Rest Time? Not Likely
But, in the mean time, I am taking insurance by printing out large photographs taken over the past years to attach to my articles in Suite101.com! The closing of the gardeners’ year? I don’t think so!

Autumn Time, Gentle Time
Who would be without the over whelming brilliance of the gardens at Autumn time, even though we know that the Fall must follow?

Chaotic Thoughts, Garden Serenity
We will walk among the daffodils, walk under the ornamental cherries, admire a few of the Camellias and Rhododendrons and purse our lips when we trip over the peacocks

Down to the Dirt in the Spring Garden
I must mention how wonderful I find the fresh new leaves of the deciduous trees, the Birches, the Acers, the Beeches [that wonderful citrus green] and the other players that enhance the mid Spring gardens in our verdant Tasmania.
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Fire, Keep out of my Garden
Tomorrow is another day and I do want to be able to keep walking in our country garden with my Internet friends. That is if I do not lose myself in the wilderness before next month!

GARDEN OF DREAMS
Kees and I have shared many happy moments, amongst the times of great anxiety and drama. We have busied ourselves in the creation of a beautiful thing, sharing the toil, the contentment, the anxiety and the sense of fulfilment.
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Hello Birdies, Hello!
They let me come right up to the window [no camera in my hand] and see that the beautiful blue shade was appearing on his tail feathers. And then, with loud giggles they flew to the roof!

Hope in the Spring Garden
Kees has just come in and tells me the Larches are breaking into leaf. I feel an up lifting of my heart. Hope springs Eternal.

If Winter is over surely Spring will follow
Gardening at "Kibbenjelok" last weekend, I remarked that the Helleborus were grateful for the gentle Winter conditions.

In My Autumn Days
I realise that I have learnt so much as I grow up with my garden plants. I look outwards from myself to the wonders of the unselfish beauty that our gardens are constantly offering to us.

OUR GARDEN GATE IS OPEN TO ALL
Pleasure and delight mingle in the thoughts of the garden owner on official Open Garden Days
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Rose is a Four Letter Word
How is it that such a bad tempered plant has become so important to not only the gardens of the world but the English language?.

Spring Thoughts
So, I will turn to my friend the garden and to the love of my family and do what I can do by not using poisons in the gardens, try not to gobble up too much water and give all that love back. I will try to work with Nature and plant the trees and flowers that are suitable to my little patch of Eden.

Summer Garden Story
I feel quite excited, I now have to think what I will place in the middle of the square and maybe have an excuse to visit a nursery!

The Fall of Autumn Time
It is not only the writer that is in her Autumn years and fast approaching Winter time. Tasmanian gardens are also galloping to the colder months.

The Falling Days of Autumn
After all, the dirt engrained in our hands and under our finger nails looks exactly the same, no matter what our gender!

The Garden awash with rain
Today the sun is shining and I have just taken a long stroll through the garden and smiled and nodded happily at the early Rhododendrons

The Garden is a Work of Art?
You are all welcome to come and see the gardens and criticize all you want with one provision. You perhaps better make it soon.

The Gardens of 2003
I will continue to write the Tasmanian story <br> Though my musings may become stale and hoary<br> And give thanks to all my Suite101 mates<br> Friends that merit my five star rates

Wedding Bells and Gangsters
A Wedding in Canada in the dead of Winter surprises an Australian bride.
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Winter Chill brings Winter Flowers
The Gordonia small tree, about which I have grumbled for many years for its lack of participation and threatened excommunication, chooses to debut into this troubled and angry world and thus lighten my heart and put a smile on my lips again

A Garden Piece [Peace]
Simply done, with no fuss or upheaval, our "Black Cockatoo" is saved.

Battling Gypsy Moths - Organically
Get rid of them part 1
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Camellias, the Heralds of Spring
But isn’t that what gardening is all about? We must make our hard choices all the time. Which plant? What flower? Insecticide or no dangerous poisons? Birds or losing the odd flower or five? And my thoughts?

Christmas Flower Time in Australia
I hope that we lucky ones will extend the warmth and happiness we feel to those who have no homes, no gardens in which to find comfort

Decorating the Home with Flowers
The moral of the story? Not to rely on commercial products? Or where would we be without sticky tape?

Garden Gnomes and Anti-Gnomes
Gnomes in history and a present day look at kitsch in the garden
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Gardening Together
Imagine my horror, when, on taking my daily walk through the garden, I found most of my most treasured plants shrivelled up and half dead

Insect Mysteries
A short story of insect appreciation
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Landscaping in the Town Garden
A green country garden of peace and harmony, where birds fly and children have space to play cricket on the front lawn.

Strangely Gardening
But it didn’t take them so long to pick the leaves of the tobacco plant, dry them out and roll the leaves tightly and then stick them into their mouths and set fire to them. As a smoker, I wished they had only decided to grow them as very pretty ornamentals!
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Umbelliferae in the Garden
A listing of my favourite umbellifers, and an explanation of why they are so important in any garden
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Winter Comes to the Country Garden
In Winter you may see the curtain fall but it is not the end of the play. The Rhododendrons and the Camellias are certainly firmly on the programme, just look at their fat buds and the prologue is already in progress and if I had stayed inside the house, I may have nearly missed it.

Winter Flowers Cheer
The Rhododendrons and the Camellias are certainly firmly on the programme, just look at their fat buds. The prologue is already in progress and if I had stayed imside the house, I may have nearly missed it.

Worms are Eating my Root Vegetables! - Answers
A common gardening question, with answers revealed.
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Doing in the aphids - organically
Tips for getting rid of aphids in your garden, on street trees and a few points about beneficial insects in the garden.
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Roses? I Don’t Grow No Stinkin’ Roses!
Growing the perfect rose in the cottage garden, no matter where you live.
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