Gardening on a massive scale in a cold climate.
In the fields of gardening and landscaping, it’s not often that you get the chance to build a garden of your dreams. As we all know, gardening is expensive, and it’s rare that a multi-millionaire is happy to spend some of their fortune on building a garden on a massive scale. But Garrick Hawkins, one of Australia’s wealthiest merchant bankers, and his wife, Evelyn, did just that when they built Mayfield Gardens in the unforgiving climate around Oberon in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
They started out landscaping around their Georgian-style home, which has a wraparound veranda and 360° views of the countryside, but in 1984 the family purchased the surrounding farmland, expanding their gardens into it. Over time the project grew and grew into the gardens they are today, covering more than 160 acres. The spectacular water garden was started in 2005, and is now a 6-acre section of the garden that has been open to the public 363 days of the year since 2014. The rest of the gardens, which are the Hawkins family’s private gardens, are opened to the public only four times a year, and I have been told that it’s worth visiting on one of these special days.
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FIRE AND Feathers!
On a dreary winter's day, a screen of fiery and feathery leaves puts up a fight against dullness!
GET THE ladies in!
At this time of year, early-flowering shrubs vie with each other to get the most attention. We say: Trust those with female names for frills and butterflies. They go the extra mile to flower their hearts out.
Vegetable Soups and dumplings
Vegetables make the most delicious soups and classic combinations are always a winner.
Yummy sweet potatoes for your good health
Boiled, baked or braaied, sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are a delicious and healthy winter comfort food. Just a dollop of butter, a little seasoning and you are good to go.
Pretty and functional
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Dried Seedheads & Pods
Autumn and winter are the best times to see what flowers produce the best seedheads that can be left on the plants to feed the birds and bugs and for harvesting for dried arrangements.
SO MANY FACES and so many choices...
Whoever associated a Cotyledon orbiculata (pig's ear) with the ear of a pig obviously did not know about all the varieties and cultivars this species in the genus Cotyledon has.
COLOURFUL Cold Weather WINNERS!
If it comes to a vote, these dependable shrubs will be the top candidates for prime performance in winter and in other seasons...
What makes a garden sustainable?
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