Colourful flowers to plant this spring
It's hard to pick favourites when it comes to flowers, but this gorgeous blossom is at the top of the list for spring.
Succulent sweet corn
Put your water on to boil, says Penny Woodward, before picking your sweet corn.
Easygoing cumquats
Although more cold tolerant than other citrus, cumquats still need as much sun as possible, plus perfect drainage.
Tree marigold
Flowers provide bright splashes of colour for many months these bright blooms smell amazing, too!
The sweetest thing
Did you know you can grow stevia in your garden? Stevia rebaudiana is a tender perennial that grows best in humid, wet environments.
Edible flowers
Edible flowers add colour and texture to your patch and flavour to your cooking. You can start with borage, marigolds and violets.
How to grow beetroot
Beetroot comes in a variety of colours and shapes: there is much more to this vegie than the standard red/purple types. You can also grow it yourself.
Herb hedges you can grow yourself
Lavender can planted so that it makes a hedge that will provide a beautiful scent as well as nectar for pollinators.
Statuesque angelica
Choose your spot carefully before planting angelica as it quickly grows to a metre across and more than two metres high when in flower.
White oil spray
Make your own white oil spray to use on sap sucking insects, mealy bug, aphids, two-spotted mite, citrus leaf miner, whitefly and scale.
Flowers for late winter and spring colour
Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.
