An infographic by the team at CouponAudit . Couldn’t help but show off the fact that my blog has been named number 49 in the Top 100 Gardening blogs to follow in 2013. Sure, it’s a different “spin” on gardening but I’m proud of being able to spread the  message of workplace gardening even further! [...]

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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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If you have read a gardening book or magazine you will have seen images similar to those pictured here. These are zone maps that represent the various climatic conditions that different gardeners operate in. The shading indicates whether a region is classified as Arid, Mediterranean, Temperate, Tropical or a Rainforest. Within some of these zones [...]

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Did you know that coffee grounds are regularly used by gardeners? I don’t drink coffee so the issue of what to do with leftover grounds has never concerned me. However, I recently came across an article that outlined some really interesting ways to use coffee in the garden, including: Coffee grounds can be used as [...]

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The Hydrangea has a naturally white flower but there is an interesting trick that gardeners have learnt that changes their colour. It seems that if you alter the pH of the soil they can become shades of pink to red and blue to purple, depending on what you add. Lime will get you pink or [...]

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