ABC Gardening Australia magazine

Correas may not be the flamboyant, look-at-me darlings of the garden, but these quiet achievers more than compensate with their versatility, resilience and wildlife value. True garden workhorses, they grow happily in sun or shade, and are suitable as informal hedges, border and understorey plants, leafy backdrops, rockery features, groundcovers and pot specimens. They are als...

You don’t even need rooting powder or experience to propagate many plants. That hydrangea, those three rose bushes and the dahlias you just bought aren’t extravagances, they’re investments!
One plant can give you four to 40 ‘babies’ a year. What other investment can provide that kind of annual return? Here are some of the easiest, most lovable, and most profitable ‘inve...

There’s a whole lot more to beetroot than the typical red globes you see in shops. In the garden, you can grow varieties with golden, white and even candy-striped flesh, along with elegant cylindrical types that slice into perfectly even rounds. 
Beetroot is a wonderfully productive, nutritious and versatile crop to have in the patch. The fresh leafy tops can be cooked j...

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

Picture two gardens on the same street. Same rainfall, same aspect, but one is quiet, with perhaps a couple of Australian magpies or a crested pigeon, and little else. The other is full of song: fairywrens in the mulch, honeyeaters through the shrubs, a butcherbird carolling from the wattle. You could lose count before breakfast. The difference isn’t a bird feeder, it isn’t l...