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.

Frost, good or bad?

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

Grow kiwi fruit and reap the benefits

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

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.