November 24th, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney, streaming live at
www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio Network. www.realworldgardener.com
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Design Elements
with Landscape Designer Louise McDaid
Last week, a new series was started
on colour in garden design.
Colour theory and a range of
different ways to use the colours were explained through using the colour
wheel.
Main
colour schemes used in gardens are complementary, split complementary,
triadic/contrasting, harmonious and monochromatic.But colour is a fickle thing, and many factors affect the appearance of
the colour of your plants. Because this program goes Australia, you can imagine
how the different light levels will affect colour in people’s gardens from
Ballina in NSW to Kingston in South Australia.
Colour is affected by a number of factors such as (i) light-we need to consider the light levels in our gardens. (ii)distance-how far away is the garden from where you're looking at it?
For the best tips, listen to Louise
explain how you can overcome the colour dilemma.
As Louise mentioned, there are some guidelines to using colour:
Receding colours – fade away or black out – cool colours such
as blues, deep greens – they look further away – also grey, black (good for
fences or other items you want to ‘disappear’ in the garden)
Luminous colours – appear closer – warm colours yellow,
orange, red – they also lead the eye through a garden.
Colour
changes should be graduated or sequenced to keep continuity.
Colour
and textures are related – delicate pastel colours have a fine textural
appearance, while bright colours appear
coarser.If you have any questions about this
week’s Design Elements, send it our email address, or just post it.
November 24th, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney, streaming live at
www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio Network. www.realworldgardener.com
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Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
Wildlife in Focus
with Consultant Ecologist Kurtis Lindsay
Do you still have plenty of birds
visiting your local area?
Have you ever wondered where have all the birds gone?
Woodlands and grassland covers about three-quarters of the Australian
continent. No surprises then that these areas provide habitat for the majority
of Australian land bird species.
These habitats, especially temperate
and tropical woodlands and grasslands, also provide much of the country's
agricultural land, which has greatly modified them. Who wins out?
Listen to this!
From the Department of Environment ,
www.environment.gov.au, about one-third of the major
woodland type, eucalypt woodlands, and 80 per cent of temperate woodlands have
been cleared (McIntyre et al 2002, Lindenmayer et al 2005).
Much of the remainder is thinned,
degraded and deteriorating, and often in poorer country—steep, rocky, wet or
with less fertile soils.
Little grassland has been formally cleared, but
ploughing, grazing, introduced pastures and weeds, changed burning regimes, and
other disturbances have caused major, widespread change.
It’s been shown that revegetation of
woodlands has reversed the trend.
Now it’s up to the private landholders to
take action.
Why not look up Australian wildlife
conservancy to see what they do?
If you have any questions about
woodland birds, why not drop us a line by sending in your question to realworldgardener@gmail.com or by post to 2RRR P.O. Box 644
Gladesville NSW 1675, and I’ll send you a copy of the Garden Guardians in
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November 13th, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney,
streaming live at www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio
Network. www.realworldgardener.com
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Broadcasting Foundation
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The complete CRN
edition of RWG is available on http://www.cpod.org.au/ , just click on 2RRR to find this week’s edition. The new theme is sung by Harry Hughes from his album
Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
Design Elements
with Louise McDaid, Landscape Designer,
So, you want a blue and white
garden, or maybe purple and white?
Is colour important in garden
design? But should you religiously stick to those two colours or should you use
another colour? Let’s find out….
The colour wheel is great to
remember when picking colours for your garden.
That’ll help getting a gaudy mix of
colours that just doesn’t work.
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November 13th, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney,
streaming live at www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio
Network. www.realworldgardener.com
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Broadcasting Foundation
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Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
Spice it Up
with Ian Hemphill www.herbies.com.au
Have you ever thought about what
part of a plant the clove comes from?
Is there such a thing as a clove
tree or bush?
Or perhaps your thinking is more
along the lines of where else can you use clove spices other than when making
Christmas cake, Christmas pudding and Fruit Mince Pies? Oh, and of course in
all things apple. Did you know dentists used to use oil of Cloves when putting
in a filling in your tooth because of the strong antiseptic properties?
Listen to yet another amazing tale
about the spice trade!
Did you catch that tip from Ian?
Next time you make that pasta sauce,
add a pinch of ground cloves to add another great flavour.
Cloves contain Eugenol oil which is
also found in Basil leaves, so they’ll certainly go great with all your pasta
sauces.
You can also grow the Clove tree,
but got to www.daleysfruit.com.au
If you have any questions about using
cloves why not drop us a line by sending in your question to realworldgardener@gmail.com or by post to 2RRR P.O. Box 644
Gladesville NSW 1675, and I’ll send you a copy of the Garden Guardians in
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November 9th, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney,
streaming live at www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio
Network. www.realworldgardener.com
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Broadcasting Foundation
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The complete CRN
edition of RWG is available on http://www.cpod.org.au/ , just click on 2RRR to find this week’s edition. The new theme is sung by Harry Hughes from his album
Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
Design Elements
Maintaining Your Potted Garden with Louise McDaid Landscape Designer
How many pot plants have you got in
your garden, patio or balcony?
Plants in pots are great when you
don’t have the right conditions to grow plants that you really like or hanker
after.
Sometimes you don’t have enough sun
or shade in the garden, so they can be moved depending on the time of year.
Sometimes, we love our plants too
much, and have just run out of room.
When’s the best time to repot them?
What if they’re too heavy to life for re-potting, what do you do then?
Whether it’s cold and wet outside,
blowing a gale or just too hot, a few beautiful plants and plant pots will mean
it’s always summer, somewhere in your home.
Plants can create a feeling of
peace, and caring for them helps us slow down and appreciate the here and now.
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November 9th, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney,
streaming live at www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio
Network. www.realworldgardener.com
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The complete CRN
edition of RWG is available on http://www.cpod.org.au/ , just click on 2RRR to find this week’s edition. The new theme is sung by Harry Hughes from his album
Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
Living Planet
Are there any bees sleeping in your
garden?
According to Dr Tanya Latty - ARC
Postdoctoral Fellow, Behaviour and
Genetics of Social Insects Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University
of Sydney, native bees are often found sleeping
on spent flowers, mainly native flowers of spiky plants such as the spiky
Epacris puchella.
If it’s not warm enough, these small
bee won’t get out of bed until much later - if at all. They often pick flowers
where the colour of the bee blends really well with, and it’s often the case
that native bees are found sleeping on spent or dying flowers.
Dr Latty is involved with the Urban
Bee Monitoring project which will address the knowledge gap of bee conservation
by urban gardeners,
The project hopes to answer 4
crucial conservation questions:
1) Which Australian native bees are
present in community gardens?
2) Which garden characteristics influence
native bee abundance and diversity?
3) Which plant species are most
attractive to bees?
The project will generate
recommendations that can be used to design bee-friendly green spaces and also form
the backbone of an ongoing bee monitoring and conservation initiative."
If you see native bees in your
garden we would like to hear from you.
TIP: You can help native bees by bundling together 15 - 20 cm lengths of sticks with hollow stems such as Hydrangea stems. Tie them together and hang under trees.
To help you identify native bees
check out www.aussiebee.com.au
These cute little creatures are a
wonderful reason to have some spiky habitat plants in your garden.
So in the cool of the morning or
close to sunset wander around and look to see what is sleeping in your garden.
If you have any questions about native bees or
building bee nest boxes, why not drop us a line. Or send in a photo to realworldgardener@gmail.com or by post to 2RRR P.O. Box 644 Gladesville NSW
November 1st, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney,
streaming live at www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio
Network. www.realworldgardener.com
Real World Gardener is funded by the Community
Broadcasting Foundation
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The complete CRN
edition of RWG is available on http://www.cpod.org.au/ , just click on 2RRR to find this week’s edition. The new theme is sung by Harry Hughes from his album
Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
Living Planet
with ecologist Sophie Golding
Do you think of your dog, cat or
other pets as your best friend that should be allowed to go with you
everywhere?
In some countries bringing your pet
with you to enjoy a meal is de rigeur. What about National parks and reserves?
Think about this:
National parks and
reserves are refuges for native animals.
Dog faeces carry diseases which can
be harmful to wildlife and people, and also add nutrients to the soil,
increasing the spread of weeds.
If dogs and other domestic pets frighten native animals away from popular
visitor areas, there will be no wildlife for other visitors to see.
Listen to these thoughts.
Dogs and other domestic pets (other
than trained assistance animals such as guide dogs) must not be taken into
national parks, state conservation areas, nature reserves, historic sites or
Aboriginal areas, because:
Native animals see dogs as
predators.
The lasting scent left by dogs can
easily scare small animals and birds away from their homes, often causing them
to leave their young unprotected.
However, you can walk your dog in
some regional parks.
If you have any questions about pets in nature reserves and national parks, send them in to realworldgardener@gmail.com
November 1st, 2013
REAL WORLD GARDENER Wed. 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney,
streaming live at www.2rrr.org.au and Across Australia on the Community Radio
Network. www.realworldgardener.com
Real World Gardener is funded by the Community
Broadcasting Foundation
REALWORLD GARDENER NOW ON FACEBOOK
The complete CRN
edition of RWG is available on http://www.cpod.org.au/ , just click on 2RRR to find this week’s edition. The new theme is sung by Harry Hughes from his album
Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
Feature Interview:
with TV personality and author, Indira Naidoo
Are you reading this as a
first time gardener?
Or are you a keen gardener?
Gardeners like to learn
constantly because you can never have too much information.
What about those
gardeners who’ve had to scale down from a large block to a small patio garden?
What do you do there?
Here’s some sage advice from a well
known personality.
PLAY: Indira_Starting a Garden_30th October_2013
Do what Indira suggests, although I
know she’s not the first.
Plan just ten minutes everyday in
the garden and see what happens.
Like a lot of gardener, you’ll
probably find that you can do at least half an hour and it’ll only seem like
ten minutes.
If you have any questions about anything
gardening, why not drop us a line. Or send in a photo to realworldgardener@gmail.com or by post to 2RRR P.O. Box 644
Gladesville NSW 1675, and I’ll send you a copy of the Garden Guardians in
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