This blog is another article from Grow! Spring Edition, 2024. Grow! Is a new zine for garden and art inspo in the South West of Victoria, Australia. Community Projects: Gardens can be more than the space surrounding your home. They can also be spaces for public use including parks, botanic gardens, community gardens, gardens inContinue reading “Community Projects”
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Grow!
Well it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything on this platform, but now I’m back! Over the past year I’ve been producing a quarterly zine focused on gardens and art in Southwest Victoria in place of posting here but this time the printing gods are conspiring against me. I can’t for the lifeContinue reading “Grow!”
Once Upon a Chair
This is the second post from my new zine ‘Grow!’. Meet ‘Once Upon a Chair‘ and the creative brains behind it, Liz. *Taken from Grow! Winter 2024, 2nd edition. Liz has been a creative person from a young age, she has used a variety of mediums, painting with acrylics, oils, sign writing, then teaching herselfContinue reading “Once Upon a Chair”
Innerbloom Gardening Therapy
In my last blog post I announced I will be sharing articles from my zine, ‘Grow!’, in this format. The idea being to share the information as far as possible. So here is the first article in the ‘Under the Spotlight- Gardening’ section from the Autumn, 2024 edition. Innerbloom Gardening Therapy: Kim has had aContinue reading “Innerbloom Gardening Therapy”
Grow!
My focus has been diverted lately, from posting thoughts and info on this platform to putting information and interviews in print form. I have a long held fascination with the medium of ‘zines’. In my youth they were an underground way of sharing music and alternative news. I had thought they had died out butContinue reading “Grow!”
Tree Dahlia
I love these plants, they tower over the garden majestically. Tree Dahlia is an apt name, they can grow as tall as a small tree. It’s been a good season for them here in Southwest Victoria, it’s been cold but we’ve had no frosts or major wind events. The last few years I’ve lost mostContinue reading “Tree Dahlia”
Bulbs
I finally got around to planting the bulbs I received the other day. Go me! There are two big questions I always get asked about planting bulbs, namely, ‘which way is up?’ And ‘how far down do they go?’ Bulbs, and often their cousins (?), corms, are fairly easy to distinguish between their ‘up’ sideContinue reading “Bulbs”
Packages Arriving.
It’s very exciting when a package full of plants and bulbs finally gets to you! Half the time I order plants then forget what I ordered. I knew I had a red Aquilegia, a chocolate coloured Hollyhock, and some bulbs. But I couldn’t remember which bulbs they were 🤔 Well, wonder no more! They areContinue reading “Packages Arriving.”
Autumn
Autumn has well and truly snuck up on us now. Daylight savings has ended so we can look forward to snuggly nights tucked up inside. We’ve finally got a bit of rain here in South West Victoria, hopefully we get just the right amount, not too much as they have been getting further north ofContinue reading “Autumn”
Bee Food
Gardeners have different ways of thinking and doing. One gardener’s weed infested yard is another’s pollinator’s heaven. I’m the first to admit I’m a lazy gardener so I fall deeply in the latter category. This is my yard. I refuse to mow the lawn, that’s my husband’s job, but if it’s not done I don’tContinue reading “Bee Food”
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