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Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 14/01/2010

Coming Up This Week

Coming Up This Week

THIS WEEK ON GARDENING AUSTRALIA

Managing Tree Populations - A Garden for Community - Long-stem Planting - Plant Breeding

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ABC 1: Saturday 16 January 2010, 6:30pm and Sunday 17 January 2010, 1:00pm

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A Garden for Community

A Garden for Community
16/01/2010
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Managing Tree Populations

Managing Tree Populations
Presenter: John Patrick, 16/01/2010
John discusses managing trees populations to ensure them for future generations
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Gardening Australia Magazine

Gardening Australia Magazine

FEBRUARY 2010 ISSUE OUT NOW
COMMUNITY GARDENS Jerry Coleby-Williams gives his top tips on what you need to consider to create a successful community garden.

TASTY TOMATOES Regular columnist and cook Maggie Beer reveals her secrets to growing tomatoes in the backyard.

HOT BULBS While most bulbs are spring-flowering, there is an unusual and beautiful group that flowers in late summer and early autumn.

BERRY DELIGHT Nothing beats the taste of freshly picked summer berries such as raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. Tino Carnevale lets you in on a few tricks to growing your own.

UNUSUAL CLIMBERS Climbers can really add interest to your garden. Stephen Ryan has uncovered some rarer varieties.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

  • The World Garden in the UK and the brains behind it, creator Tom Hart Dyke
  • Leonie Norrington profiles some of the best backyard palms for the tropics
  • Cool chook sheds
  • Millie Ross explains how to use hydroponics to save water
  • The keys to keeping guineafowl
  • Sophie Thomson talks summer rose care
  • The world's fastest flying insect, the fiery skimmer dragonfly

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Plant of the Week

Plant of the Week

MUHLENBERGIA

Commonly known as muhly grass, this genus of 160 species of often spectacular grasses in the family Poaceae is native to warmer parts of North America, with a few in Asia as well. Some species are grown for their foliage, which can be bluegray, others for their flowerheads, and a few for both qualities. Strangely, for such showy plants, these grasses have only recently become appreciated as garden plants.

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