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| Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 14/01/2010 | Coming Up This Week | | THIS WEEK ON GARDENING AUSTRALIA
Managing Tree Populations - A Garden for Community - Long-stem Planting - Plant Breeding Read more ABC 1: Saturday 16 January 2010, 6:30pm and Sunday 17 January 2010, 1:00pm
| Watch a Story | | A Garden for Community 16/01/2010 Preview a story from this week's show Watch video | Find a Fact Sheet | | Managing Tree Populations Presenter: John Patrick, 16/01/2010 John discusses managing trees populations to ensure them for future generations Read more | Browse the Video Archive | | There are three ways you can access Gardening Australia video: Streaming: Watch short clips of various segments online. Download: Manually download the complete episodes to your computer. Vodcast: Subscribe and have the complete episodes automatically downloaded to your computer. | Gardening Australia Forum | | Got a gardening question? Got an idea or tip? Why not go to our forum where you can talk to other keen gardeners, share ideas, help others or just share your passion for plants. And don't forget — members of the Gardening Australia team, including our presenters are Forum members too! So join the team to talk all things botanical. Join the conversation | 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
ABC Shop: Gardening Australia Magazine February | Have you got a Gardening Question? | | THE GARDENING AUSTRALIA FORUM IS OPEN The Forum has been closed over the festive season, but is back online and ready for all our members and guests to chat about all things gardening. Ask a question, answer a question or find out tips from other gardeners. You can even upload photos to help others identify plants or help solve specific botanical questions. If you haven't been on the forums yet, you can follow the links below to help you get started.
Registering and Getting Started Posting Images and Links Gardening Australia Forum | 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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