When you appoint a new leader in your organisation do you leave them exposed to the ravages of the organisation or do you provide them with some shelter from the more extreme elements? It’s not unlike young plants being sheltered from the elements by a larger tree. It certainly helps them get established but you [...]

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I recently spent the weekend interstate at the house of a friend who had a new garden put in a year ago when she and her husband built a new house. This involved approximately 400 individual plants going into the ground. She is not what you would call an avid gardener so she paid to [...]

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The greenhouse is an important feature in any serious garden. It provides the right environment for young, delicate plants to grow from seeds into seedlings. Without it there would be many plants that just wouldn’t survive or would never reach their full flowering or fruiting potential. Gardeners know that if you give a plant a [...]

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I noticed this interesting little piece in a recent edition of my “Gardening Australia Magazine” and it immediately brought to mind a situation I have witnessed in many workplaces . . . “Think of the poor insects that step onto the rim of the Nepenthes pitcher plan, then slip to their death into the chamber [...]

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For a long time in the history of gardening in Australia we were far more interested in the exotic, introduced species than we were in our own home grown native plants. As a result of this obsession we have created issues in not only our private gardens but also our public gardens and general bush [...]

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