Mistakes I made as a beginner gardener
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Ahhhh I got reflective and listed all the beginnery mistakes I made that you might just be able to avoid.
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Deadheading to keep plants flowering
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What is “deadheading” and how does this little garden job help your flowers bloom for twice as long?
A beginners guide to getting the most out of your hard earned flowering plants.
Bedding Plants for Beginners
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It’s nearly Christmas and you are lamenting at no flowers in your garden. Well its not too late!!!
Introducing the wonderful world of bedding plants
Garden to Vase: Iris, fennel and a gifted peony
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A chattier video than normal taking you through mixing homegrown misfits with short lived, seasonal jewels like NZ grown peonies. Some fun resulting in a quirky arrangement for my house.
Read MoreA beginners guide to watering
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As a beginner I found myself dumbfounded with when and how long to water my garden and pots.
Well here is what I learned to help you…
Converting a wine barrel into planters
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As someone who spends a lot of time trying to cheat her shady garden beds into producing more flowers, in defeat I also spend a lot of time squeezing in more and more containers to make the most of growing in the sunny spaces.
An wine barrels have become our go to!
Read on and view our guide and video to converting a wine barrel into TWO generous, handy planters!
Garden to Vase: a mini cottage garden
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The current selection of mid spring plants that are flowering in my garden have a sweetness and ramble to their small scale. So I challenged myself to create a wild and friendly “garden” scene in my latest secondhand vase find. The colour palette and vibe is one of my favourite experiments so far and I think it does strangely hint at a wee garden scene?
Click through for guide and video.
Long live prunings
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I am the first to put my hand up for pruning my roses “too late”. For choosing to tidy up the plum trees when they have already started to fruit (blasphemy!) and driving the idea to lop down some pittosporums that have struggled away growing in a really unfriendly spot for years.
Click through for ideas on using YOUR prunings plus a video.
Garden to Vase: Bach Bouquet in a Can
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One of the ways I grew my interest in gardening was opening my eyes up to all the plants around me instead of just ignoring them as general background green. Collecting little snips here and there also helped me learn their names and begin to understand what I like, what smells good, what does and doesn’t last in a vase and even what grows in my local environment.
Click through for a little quide to help you collect and make your own bach bouquet plus video.
Guide to plant types
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Perennials…Annuals…Biennials…Inbetweeners…
Now I do understand their need to use gardening terms and their huge importance to designing, learning and growing a garden that I would love. The plant categories below have unlocked my creativity and pathways to further knowledge and I hope they will keep you on track too.
Garden to Vase: Daffodils and Sweet Peas
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My self seeded Sweet Pea situation is beyond my control and, I think Mother Natures too.
Click through for a wee guide and video of me doing my best to use what is in the garden.
