Gardening: Protecting your pink hibiscus

As I mentioned in my last column, many pests can feed on hibiscus making this a very high maintenance choice for your landscape. Chewing insects include caterpillars, grasshoppers, snails and slugs, beetles, cut worms and leaf miners. Piercing-sucking insects include scale, mealybugs, spider mites, aphids, whiteflies and thrips. These pests are more of a problem in areas of poor circulation. The ...

Yardsmart: Hydroponic gardening may aid food supply

Hydroponic vegetable-growing revolutionizes off-season availability of seasonal produce.

Australia Day delight for Montmorency couple

BILL and Sylvia Saunders are the quintessential Aussie couple.

From path to a Boronia paradise

A 30-YEAR labour of love has seen Rob and Val Henry's garden transform from soil and rock into a native bush.

Warm weather leads to great gardening

With consecutive days of frost around the country, gardeners are relieved for unseasonably warm conditions leading to extended flowering, early budding and a mild sense of consternation.