What do real estate, employee engagement and gardening have in common? Success is all about position, position, position! Columnist Michael McCoy from Gardening Australia Magazine explored the issue of position in one of his recent articles in reference to a plant he has, a Helleborous called “Mrs Betty Ranicar”, that had issues because it was [...]

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There is a growing movement to bring back old style heirloom varieties of plants. They are varieties that were commonly grown in the past but fell out of favour as we developed newer varieties. Before the industrialisation of agriculture a much wider variety of plant foods were grown for human consumption. Today most food crops [...]

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Carlos Magdalena is revered in the gardening world as a miracle worker. He is known internationally as the Spanish “plant messiah” for his ability to propagate endangered species when other gardeners fail.  I encountered his remarkable skills whilst watching the latest David Attenborough series “Kingdom of plants” which I have now quoted a few times [...]

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  While researching ideas for a customised presentation I recently delivered to the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (www.wista.net) I came across this example of how you can’t keep a good seed down. The lush green plants in this picture contain more history than you can possibly imagine. They came from soil that was [...]

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Each plant has a role to play but it’s only when you put them together do they create a beautiful and functioning garden. Here is a short video on why the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Tweet

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