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 | | Welcome to the Gardening Australia Newsletter: 18/02/2010 | Coming Up This Week | | | The Vegie Patch - Creating a Pond - Understanding the Environment - Rose Renovation - Self-watering Pots
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20/02/2010
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Presenter: Stephen Ryan, 20/02/2010
Stephen Ryan creates a pond for an awkward spot in his garden
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 | Stephen's Blog | | STEPHEN SUGGESTS A PLANT FOR THOSE DIFFICULT SHADY CONDITIONS IN THE GARDEN I am often looking for a plant for a very difficult spot in the garden and one of the most difficult is dry root infested soil under a large tree. If you go around the nurseries they all would seem to be under the impression that we all live in sunny splendour and as we all know the older a garden gets the more shade we need to cope with.
A plant I have found particularly useful in these really hard conditions is an evergreen South African shrub called Mackaya bella which grows to about 3metres each way making it ideal to hide the paling fence. It has very dark green glossy leaves that would be almost enough to grow it for but in late spring it covers itself with white trumpets beautifully veined with purple. From a distance this makes the flowers look mauve.
If your local nursery doesn't have it put on some pressure and hopefully get them to order some as it should be growable from Hobart to Darwin as long as you only get mild frost or ( even better) are frost free.
Yours,
Stephen | Our Search for Gardeners | | STEPHEN TO YOUR PLACE (VIC) Are you a passionate gardener with a standard-sized garden? Gardening Australia is looking for gardeners in Victoria for its new segment with Stephen Ryan. Every 3 to 4 weeks Stephen and the GA crew will drop in on someone and have a chat about the great features of their garden and find out how it all evolved. If you'd like to be part of Gardening Australia, or know someone who you think should be, please fill out the Online Form with the Subject 'Stephen to my place.'
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