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24.01.2022 ... and just when we were sad that the Wattles finished their flowering, the Bottlebrushes begin ...

24.01.2022 For everyone in Canberra, I'll be running a workshop at the Canberra Environment Centre on Tuesday 5th February called 'Creating a Garden for a Canberra Climate'. We'll be looking at how to best garden in Canberra's soils, current climate, and importantly, our future climate. My intention is to provide practical and enabling information across the key themes of soil, water and plants. You'll leave feeling much better equipped to plan and care for your garden amongst the extremes of Canberra's climate. Check out all the details below.

24.01.2022 A good little article here on the mild & dry winter we've had here in Canberra. I have to admit that working in a t-shirt from 10am on most days this winter has been great, but I wonder what impact this has on the lives and annual patterns of our birds, insects and plants.

23.01.2022 We can go the other way too; by continuing to cultivate diversity in our gardens, farms and landscapes. We can only get better from here :)

22.01.2022 A GARDEN DESIGN THIS WINTER As the mornings cool down and my Earl Grey consumption starts its steady climb to its mid-Winter peak my business shifts from a more active to a more reflective mode. Winter is a naturally still & reflective season and my favourite time for designing gardens with people. Design is about more than drawings it’s a collaborative process where we work together to shape a place full of life and health, and all guided by your personal vision for your ...garden. Everyone has different reasons for coming to start afresh in their garden. It might be growing nutritious food for your kitchen, having a nurturing place to come to ground from a stressful day, a space for a family to grow & play in and many other reasons. Good Ground Horticulture brings extensive knowledge and practical experience to ensure that your vision suits your needs, your land and our climate for years to come. If this Winter is the time to start planning your garden or even to have a chat about it please get in touch with me and we’ll start from there.

21.01.2022 Quiet and well- perfumed passengers

20.01.2022 There are still tickets left to my gardening workshop at the Canberra Environment Centre on September 26th. We'll look at how we can garden in a way that jives with Canberra's unique climate, soils and seasons.

18.01.2022 This is very cool. Canberra isn't quite this dry but it's using similar techniques of capturing rainfall and storing it in the soil that will support our gardens and landscapes regenerating in the same way they've done in Kenya

17.01.2022 Mary Oliver, a wonderful poet of nature and feeling, passed on late last week. Here’s the closing passage of one of my favourite of her essays, Upstream, in celebration of her life's work: Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones inkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries.... And the aromatic ones rosemary, sage. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.

15.01.2022 Here's the event page - looks like tickets are on the move so don't wait too long :)

13.01.2022 ... they do indeed love a chinwag

12.01.2022 Hi Canberra folk. I'm excited to be partnering with the Canberra Environment Centre to offer a free (online) fortnightly talk on different aspects of gardening in our region. They will be relaxed, beginner-focus and will enable you to get started in simple ways in your garden. Our first talk is 'What to do in your Canberra Garden in Autumn', and we'll have more talks in the future on fruit trees, caring for natives, garden planning and much more. Come along next Thursday if you're free.

12.01.2022 I had a lovely day in Murrumbateman yesterday pruning an espaliered fruit orchard. Make sure you get those fruit trees pruned as soon as you can because they're about to pop!

10.01.2022 We woke this fella from his Winter nap this morning. We made him a new hostel safe & sound, but does anyone know what kind of frog he is?

09.01.2022 Remember in amongst keeping yourselves hydrated today to leave some water out for birds, animals & insects too. The terracotta saucer is for pollinators, especially bees, who can land on the rocks and safely drink the water without fear of drowning The buckets are for birds - they are in shade (but clearly visible). They are filled to the brim with water and partially covered with thin wooden platforms that they can easily land on and drink from rather than having to try an...d perch on the bucket edges. Stay hydrated and cool everyone!

09.01.2022 I had a great time as usual working with The Gordon Gnohm last week in Ainslie. We dug out what will be a large rainfall-harvesting basin and introduced some beautiful big boulders to the garden. Once it has been spruced up this will form the ecological and aesthetic heart of the garden.

07.01.2022 If you missed out on tickets to our Creating a Garden for a Canberra Climate workshop with the Canberra Environment Centre, we have released two new dates: Tue 5th March and Tue 7th May from 6 - 8pm. This workshop looks at our climate here in Canberra and what that means for how we can best garden. We'll cover soil care, water retention and strategies for planting. I hope to see you at ones of these nights!

06.01.2022 A lovely visual reminder of how much animals appreciate us leaving water out for them. See if you can leave some water out for animals when you go away this summer :)

04.01.2022 Hi y'all - just a reminder that this workshop will be starting in a half hour. We'll spend an hour exploring how you can start to think about planning your garden into the future, particularly as we step further and further into a warmed climate. We'll cover soil, water harvesting, tree placement, bushfire prevention and more! Come say hi.

03.01.2022 Put down all my tools bar one #riseup #toolsdown #climatestrike

01.01.2022 If you are home more over the next few months and feeling isolated or stressed, please remember to keep in mind that spending some time amongst the natural world is a great way of calming down, feeling at peace and re-discovering your heart. If you're in a balcony that can be as simple as having some phone-free time and looking at the clouds or tree canopies nearby, letting your eyes follow birds or bees as they fly around completely oblivious of human viruses. If you have a garden, remember to take a break from the computer (and endless re-watching of The West Wing, amirite?) and sit under a tree. Feel the breeze, do some slow weeding and enjoy the sensual immersion in all the sounds, textures and delights of the world outside our windows.