11 Dec 2024

No time for gardening? Don’t be a plant snob!

From Nine To Noon, 11:30 am on 11 December 2024
Log in a flower garden

Photo: Naoki Uehara

Landscape designer and gardener Xanthe White talks with Kathryn how to have a great garden, without spending much time in it. She says the key is selecting the right plants, and not being a plant snob.

The garden of listener Helen's father who died a couple of years ago, just before his 89th birthday. It was a montser patch - the equivalent of a three bedroom house, Helen writes, and after his death became a sea of weeds. She has since resurrected the garden into a "riot of colour", and her mum is able to take flowers to enjoy inside.

Photo: Supplied by Helen

Above is the garden of listener Helen's father who died a couple of years ago, just before his 89th birthday.

It was a monster patch - the equivalent of a three-bedroom house, Helen writes, and after his death it became a sea of weeds.

She has since resurrected the garden into a floral "riot of colour", and her mum is able to take flowers to enjoy inside.

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