Brookside Plants in Hobart, Tasmania | Gardener

Brookside Plants

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Address: Kingston 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

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22.01.2022 While the days are getting palpably shorter and the valley starts to get an eerie morning mist there is always some beautiful colour in the garden. One of my favourites is Amaryllis belladonna - a tough and forgiving bulb and not even the hungry wallabies eat it - well yet anyway.

18.01.2022 I am a passionate plants person with a large rambling country garden in Tasmania, full of all sorts of treasures collected over many years. As so many of these are now unobtainable commercially here I am slowly propagating them in order to share with others and to ensure that they are available in the future. From time to time I will have small quantities for sale that I will list online.

11.01.2022 The rain is wrecking havoc at the moment but the garden is loving it. Climbing Cecile Brunner is incredibly resilient. There will be cutting grown plants available in Spring.

10.01.2022 The smells, sounds and feel of Autumn becomes more intense in March after such a long dry period. My deciduous trees are losing their leaves before I can enjoy their magnificent colours.

09.01.2022 I have had great success this year using the Three Sister method to grow my sweetcorn, beans and zucchini. Native American villages used a unique companion planting plan sweetcorn, climbing beans and pumpkins or squash (any cucurbits really) being grown together in the same plot. The principle behind this combination is that the beans will use the corn as a support to climb up, and in turn as they are in the legume family they will fix nitrogen from the soil and make it mor...e available to the other plants. The rambling squash vines provide a living mulch and help shade the roots of the corn and the beans, preventing them drying out in the heat of summer. As most of the Cucurbit family have spiny stems they also prevent pests climbing up to eat the corn and beans. As my corn was too small in Spring to have beans climb up them I created a trellis for the beans around the edges of the raised bed which enabled me to pick the beans without damaging the growing zucchinis. I was concerned I would have problems with mildew but that has not been the case so far. I am now harvesting the most fabulous tasting crops far sooner than I have done in the past!

07.01.2022 I have had great success this year using the Three Sister method to grow my sweetcorn, beans and zucchini. Native American villages used a unique companion planting plan sweetcorn, climbing beans and pumpkins or squash (any cucurbits really) being grown together in the same plot. The principle behind this combination is that the beans will use the corn as a support to climb up, and in turn as they are in the legume family they will fix nitrogen from the soil and make it mor...e available to the other plants. The rambling squash vines provide a living mulch and help shade the roots of the corn and the beans, preventing them drying out in the heat of summer. As most of the Cucurbit family have spiny stems they also prevent pests climbing up to eat the corn and beans. As my corn was too small in Spring to have beans climb up them I created a trellis for the beans around the edges of the raised bed which enabled me to pick the beans without damaging the growing zucchinis. I was concerned I would have problems with mildew but that has not been the case so far. I am now harvesting the most fabulous tasting crops far sooner than I have done in the past!

06.01.2022 While the days are getting palpably shorter and the valley starts to get an eerie morning mist there is always some beautiful colour in the garden. One of my favourites is Amaryllis belladonna - a tough and forgiving bulb and not even the hungry wallabies eat it - well yet anyway.

05.01.2022 The smells, sounds and feel of Autumn becomes more intense in March after such a long dry period. My deciduous trees are losing their leaves before I can enjoy their magnificent colours.

04.01.2022 The rain is wrecking havoc at the moment but the garden is loving it. Climbing Cecile Brunner is incredibly resilient. There will be cutting grown plants available in Spring.