
Volunteer force
A springtime daily return drive on the highway and byways between Beechworth and Wangaratta yields a fine prospect.
Read moreA springtime daily return drive on the highway and byways between Beechworth and Wangaratta yields a fine prospect.
Read moreA weekend drawer rummage turned up small black-and-white proof photographs of my Scots-born gardener-grandmother and the garden she made.
Read moreThe dowager duchess (of Grantham) would be pleased. Very pleased. This season her namesake reigns right across the garden.
Read moreAmerican etymologist Douglas Harper says the word ‘hellebore’ is of uncertain origin. ‘Perhaps literally ‘plant eaten by fawns’.
Read moreCamellia do well in our hillside patch with its ancient mix of earth – what Beechworth vignerons call greywacke, mudstone and shale.
Read moreSuperb Helleborus x hybridus ‘Slate’ proved a fetching model in this morning’s frosty light.
Read moreThis fine volunteer Hellebore in the garden’s south walk is a welcome light in darker days near the border wall.
Read moreDried berries of Cratageus laevigata near our henhouse puts out its bright red fruit in summer for all manner of birds.
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