Linda meets a Garden Clinic member whose garden is as vivacious as her personality, and is full of exciting treasures and rewarding endeavours!There is nothing more satisfying than to bump into a member of the Garden Clinic Club and chat for hours about plants, flowers - and everything! When I met Cynthia we were just getting to...
Linda finds a Garden Clinic member in Japan and takes a walk around her garden.It’s amazing to think that there are members of the Garden Clinic Club who don’t live in Australia and who garden in conditions very different form our own. But with the radio programme now being ‘podcast’ or broadcast over the...
“She was an informal double white bloom with virus-induced deep pink stripes, spots and blotches - maybe I was going through an adolescent hiccup.”
“In the last forty years camellias have changed a great deal, developing the most stunning colour combinations and plant performance imaginable.”
Nothing fi...
Pansy 'Madame Butterfly' This new variety of pansy has been selected by Bedding Plants Australia (BPA) as their 'Flower of the Year'. The intriguing mix of blue and yellow is reminiscent of a tropical butterfly. Launched by Olympic butterfly swimming champion, Susie O'Neill: "I am delighted to be associated with such a beautiful...
Behind the complex beauty of the unusual flowers of Aristolochia elegans (better known as the Dutchman's pipe) lies a menace to one of Australia's prettiest butterflies, the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly.
I photographed these extraordinary blooms on tour in Scandinavia, in the glasshouses of the Oslo Botanic Garden, in Sweden. Th...