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Sunlight and Plants

One of the most profound mistakes we can make as gardeners is to overrate our importance and ability to control our garden.

Lance Carr's farm and community garden at Dapto originally started out as one of the largest flower farms in NSW in the late 1960s.

Living in the cooler part of Australia offers many advantages, but of course, there are also some challenges.

Many of us gardeners are obsessive plant compulsives – we can’t take our minds off them.

The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, originated in China, Tibet and Northern India.

Watch our video on how to unpack your mail order plants.

Dormancy is a temporary state of inactivity or minimal activity and is great a survival mechanism for many perennials.

Tim Sansom discusses the idea of creating your own soil by composting and growing green manures at home.