AUSTRALIA GARDENING LANDSCAPE
By · CommentsMany Australian gardeners say Australia’s gardening designs are “borrowed” from places like England and Japan. But Australia has many native plants that make the Australia gardening landscape unique.
Those described here are but a few of many Australian plants available to gardeners. For more information on the Australia gardening landscape contact the Australian government’s Department of the Environment and Heritage or the Australian Botanical Gardens.
The genus Acacia is important to the Australia gardening landscape because one of its species, the Golden Wattle, is in Australia’s national floral emblem.
The Australians even celebrate Wattle Day of the first of September each year. There are almost a thousand species of Acacia in Australia, and they make wonderful garden plants.
Their flowers are arranged in either globular heads or cylindrical spikes. Depending on the species, there can be as few as three individual flowers to over one hundred and thirty. These plants flower throughout the year.
Regular pruning will help these plants live longer.
Leptospermum, commonly known as tea trees, are also popular on [...] Continue Reading…
195. Home and Gardening Magazines
By · CommentsThere are many home and gardening magazines on the market.
Most of them are full of information on how to improve your home – both inside and out. Some home and gardening magazines are what as known as ezines. That is to say that they are not printed magazines like we are used to seeing, rather they are magazines that are only available on the internet.
Home and gardening magazines are not just selling you tips on how to improve your home and garden – they are selling the people who buy it a lifestyle.
Publishers of home and gardening magazines know that people do not just want information. People want to be offered a different way of living. They look at the house interiors presented in magazines and want to picture themselves sat in those surroundings; or surroundings very like them.
They want to imagine coming home at night and sitting in that room or eating their evening meal at the table presented in the magazine. The same goes for gardens. People don’t read home and gardening magazines [...] Continue Reading…
