Whether you subscribe to the meteorological view that it begins on the first day of the month or to the astronomical view that it begins on the vernal equinox on the twenty-third day of the month, September brings us into the season that many consider the beginning of the gardening year – spring. … Read more »
https://thetriangle.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Clematis.jpg233233Debbie Worganhttps://thetriangle.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/masthead-orange.svgDebbie Worgan2024-08-28 15:09:262024-08-28 15:09:40Time to spring into the vegie garden
As we move into August and pass the cross-quarter day, halfway between the winter solstice and the coming vernal equinox, the days are getting longer and brighter and the first signs of spring are beginning to appear in the garden – a reminder that it is time for some green spring cleaning. Although we usually associate spring cleaning with housework, the same concept can be applied to the garden … Read more »
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Garden Tetris is a lot like the video game, but instead of trying to arrange falling coloured blocks, it’s plants you are trying to fit together efficiently within a limited space. Like the game it can take some practice. That supposedly short plant you stuck in on the edge turns out much taller than you expected, the one you put in the shade needs more sun (or vice versa), that … Read more »
Winter is the perfect time to select and plant a deciduous plant in your garden. Deciduous plants are dormant during winter, making them easy to transport and plant and, at this time of year, nurseries tend to have the best selection including bare-rooted varieties that can make for a more economical purchase.
Deciduous plants drop all their leaves as an adaptation to conserve water and energy, avoid physical damage from snow and ice, regulate … Read more »
by Mark Evans ‘Omne trium perfectum’ is a Latin phrase that translates to ‘everything is perfect in threes’. It is a pervasive concept throughout human culture, be it literature (three little pigs), rhetoric (I came, I saw, I conquered), advertising (slip, slop, slap), the colours of a country’s flag, (red white and blue), comedy (three people walk into a bar) or music (the third note of every scale provides the most basic harmony). The rule of … Read more »
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Believe it or not, now is an important time to think ahead to spring, particularly when it comes to flowering bulbs.
To enjoy daffodils, jonquils, tulips, freesia, anemones, ranunculus and other late winter- and spring-flowering plants, the bulbs are planted in autumn, usually between April and early May. Several weeks of cold temperatures are needed to break dormancy and maximise full flowering potential. After flowering, many bulbs can … Read more »
https://thetriangle.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WGO-p-1-bulbs.jpg489489Debbie Worganhttps://thetriangle.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/masthead-orange.svgDebbie Worgan2024-03-27 14:33:042024-03-27 14:33:04Shining a light on bulbs
Time to spring into the vegie garden
/in Gardens, Winter /by Debbie WorganWhether you subscribe to the meteorological view that it begins on the first day of the month or to the astronomical view that it begins on the vernal equinox on the twenty-third day of the month, September brings us into the season that many consider the beginning of the gardening year – spring.
… Read more »
The green spring clean
/in Gardens, Winter /by Debbie WorganAs we move into August and pass the cross-quarter day, halfway between the winter solstice and the coming vernal equinox, the days are getting longer and brighter and the first signs of spring are beginning to appear in the garden – a reminder that it is time for some green spring cleaning.
Although we usually associate spring cleaning with housework, the same concept can be applied to the garden … Read more »
Garden Tetris
/in Gardens, Winter /by Debbie Worganby Mark Evans
Deciduous deliciousness
/in Autumn, Gardens /by Debbie WorganWinter is the perfect time to select and plant a deciduous plant in your garden. Deciduous plants are dormant during winter, making them easy to transport and plant and, at this time of year, nurseries tend to have the best selection including bare-rooted varieties that can make for a more economical purchase.
Deciduous plants drop all their leaves as an adaptation to conserve water and energy, avoid physical damage from snow and ice, regulate … Read more »
The power of three.
/in Autumn, Gardens /by Debbie Worgan‘Omne trium perfectum’ is a Latin phrase that translates to ‘everything is perfect in threes’. It is a pervasive concept throughout human culture, be it literature (three little pigs), rhetoric (I came, I saw, I conquered), advertising (slip, slop, slap), the colours of a country’s flag, (red white and blue), comedy (three people walk into a bar) or music (the third note of every scale provides the most basic harmony). The rule of … Read more »
Shining a light on bulbs
/in Autumn, Gardens /by Debbie WorganBelieve it or not, now is an important time to think ahead to spring, particularly when it comes to flowering bulbs.
To enjoy daffodils, jonquils, tulips, freesia, anemones, ranunculus and other late winter- and spring-flowering plants, the bulbs are planted in autumn, usually between April and early May. Several weeks of cold temperatures are needed to break dormancy and maximise full flowering potential. After flowering, many bulbs can … Read more »