Angelica
What to plant

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.

Collect the ingredients
What to plant

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.

Alyssum
What to plant

Flowers for late winter and spring colour

Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.

Frost protection
What to plant

Frost, good or bad?

Frosts are part of many gardeners lives but are they good or bad?

Kiwi fruit on vine
What to plant

Grow kiwi fruit and reap the benefits

Plant kiwi fruit vines in spring and reap the benefits for decades.

Beurre bosc is a vigorous and productive heirloom.
What to plant

Pears: cool season fruit to grow in your backyard

Fresh is best when it comes to pears as they are a very fragile fruit. Here's the many reasons for growing your own tree, including their ability to thrive and grow fruit in a variety of climates.

Heirloom tomatoes
What to plant

Modern heirloom tomatoes

Heirloom tomato seeds have many advantages especially as they are non-hybrid plants from which you can collect seeds and regrow plants that generally grow true to type.

Native herbs you can grow yourself
What to plant

Native herbs you can grow yourself

There are an amazing variety of Australian herbs that are easily grown in pots or gardens, full sun or semi shade. Here's a selection.

Red poppy
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Poppy planting time

Planting poppy seed takes a little care but when it blooms it's an absolute joy!

Orange tree in courtyard.
Fruit & nuts

Grow your own delightfully delicious oranges!

Oranges offer so much more than their health-giving fruit, including beauty, shade and a delirious scent - and you can even grow them in pots!

Leeks in the ground
Vegetables

Lovely leeks

Leeks are best planted in autumn and winter says Penny Woodward

Tahitian lime
Fruit & nuts

Limes

Limes have it all: fragrant flowers, glossy leaves, delicious fruit.