I was watching another episode of Monty Don’s “Lost Gardens”.  This time it was devoted to a Victorian era pleasure garden complete with a beautiful summer house. This series is not just about gardening. It also gives an insight into how people lived at a point in history. What I learnt is that by the [...]

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I have been watching a new TV series on the ABC hosted by British gardening guru Monty Don called “Lost Gardens”. Its mission is to return neglected gardens from different eras of British history to their former glory. Many were famous in their day, others are classic examples of what was happening in gardening at [...]

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I finally got to do some volunteering at Northey Street City Farm (www.nscf.org.au) after a long absence due to other commitments. It was really good to get back in the garden although I was exhausted afterwards. I really need to keep up my garden fitness. I noticed lots of changes at the garden in the [...]

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Literature is full of gardeners and gardening references. One example is “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen. She wrote of characters who change their gardens for the sake of fashion and derided them as “nouveaux riche”.  This is a term that has become associated with a class of people most of us find irritating and trivial. [...]

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“Do you focus on the numbers, the outcomes and the fruit? Or do you focus on the purpose, people, innovation, culture and root of your success. Always remember the amount of fruit we produce is just an outcome and measurement of how well we are nurturing our root. If we take care of our root [...]

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