Hello and welcome to iGarden. Anyone who knows me will know that I am 'The Compulsive Gardener' - I love everything about gardening.
Allow me to share some of my enthusiasm and interests in gardening with a focus on the plants I know best and those that do especially well in my own Sydney garden.
This is more than just about plants: it's also about the people involved in gardening; their books and gardens; planting schemes; choosing appropriate plant types; colour selection... There is plenty to think and read about in iGarden.
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I seem to be obsessed with garden creatures at the moment but instead of writing about spiders in the garden, I have decided to talk about spidery plants: those that have 'spider' in their common name. Once I started thinking about it, there were quite a few of them! Flowers seem to be given this epithet because of having long, thin stamens like a daddy-long-legs spider, or because their petals are elongated and narrow. In some cases, it is the overall arachnid shape of the plant that gives it t ... Read On »
See the full list of what's flowering in my garden this month.
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April is a wonderful time to be in the garden! Read More »
Spray your citrus trees with Eco Oil to deter the bronze orange beetle, which can ruin your citrus crops in spring, and put up some sticky traps in your trees to catch citrus leaf miners, which are active now, busily ruining new foliage growth.
Patricia asks:
Please can you tell me why all three of our orange plants Leonotis Leonurus have turned white - all together, from one flowering season to the next. They are advanced plants spread out over a 3 acre garden. They were orange for thee years and now they are all white...
It is a mystery and I would love having an answer to solve the problem...
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