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Dec 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Pollinators are an important part of our ecosystems, even in the city, and even if you only have a small space, you can help them out with some edible habitat. There are more than 2,000 species of native bees in Australia – some have yet to be formally named. There’s a lot we have to learn about them but what we do know is that, as well as being specialist pollinators of native plants, most bees will pollinate a wide range of other plants as well.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Clarence visits Australia’s first planned Garden Suburb of Haberfield in Sydney’s inner-west - designed to give people a greater connection to nature. He meets garden designer Kath Gadd to see the personal touches she has added to her patch of suburban paradise.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee |Sophie Thomson |Jerry Coleby-Williams
CLARENCE: I recommend sunflowers. The big, bold beautiful flowers are a great incentive, plus they give impressively quick results that children - and cockatoos! – will love. There are lots of cultivars with different sizes, flower shapes and colours to choose from. Sow directly in your garden in spring. SOPHIE: You’ll often see this on a plant label – it’s an acronym that stands for Plant Breeder’s Rights.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Clarence shares his favourite plants to use as fillers and groundcovers. They’re also suitable for growing at the edge of pavers, trailing over a wall, or even in a pot. Some of the most useful fillers you will find. They produce loads of cute daisy flowers in full sun or part shade. Stems that touch the ground will put down roots and sucker, and they can be easily propagated from cuttings or layering. In cooler months you can dig and divide larger clumps. Trim them back to encourage new growth.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Hannah Moloney |Millie Ross |Clarence Slockee
HANNAH: It depends on what you’re growing. Some crops are easily raised and transplanted, such as tomatoes. Others are best raised directly but can be transplanted very carefully if you need to, such as beetroot seedlings. But some crops like to be sown directly into the soil – in particular peas, beans, and carrot seeds. They strongly dislike being transplanted and can easily go to flower and seed really quickly in response.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Clarence visits a Mid-Century Modern home in Melbourne’s sandbelt, where a German-born architect has been inspired by the colours and textures of the local coastal plants. Designer/Owner:Liesl and Wilko DoehringLocation:Beaumaris, Vic, on Bunurong CountryClimate Zone:Cool temperateGarden Established:2014Style:CoastalLiesl and Wilko bought their home about 10 years ago and set about renovating it themselves.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Clarence goes behind the scenes at a nursery specialising in salvaged trees, to choose five fab species for instant impact. Located in Dural, in the heart of the Hills district of NSW, Clarence visits a wholesale nursery that has 30 years of experience in horticulture, growing high-quality mature trees for the landscaping industry. The nursery has over twenty acres in production, managed by Paul Tachi.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Clarence is at the Sydney Royal Botanic Garden to meet the expert in charge of conserving some of our threatened rainforest species. Dr Karen Sommerville is a Rainforest Conservation Scientist and head of the rainforest seed conservation project at the Australian PlantBank. When collecting fruit to harvest seed from, Karen looks for fruit with the best colour – usually the darkest shades – which means the fruit is ripe and the seed inside will be mature.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Clarence introduces some of his favourite landscaping plants - the saltbushes!COMMON NAMESaltbushesBOTANICAL NAMESeveral types,including:* Atriplex nummularia (Old Man Saltbush)* Rhagodia spinescens (Spiny Saltbush) * Einadia nutans (Climbing Saltbush)ORIGINAustraliaHABITSpreading shrubs, from groundcovers to scramblers and woody shrubs 1.5-2m high. FEATURESSilver-grey to grey-green foliage, with red, yellow or orange berries.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Clarence Slockee
Vegetables are full of nutrition – but they take a lot out of the soil to produce that. Over time the organic matter in your soil breaks down, air pockets are lost and the soil becomes compacted. In a raised bed, this can easily be seen as the soil level drops. And the perfect time to fix that, is in between crops. Clarence sets about topping up his raised bed, so he harvests all the remaining crops in the plot and digs up a large parsley plant.
