Using Native Plants in Place Of Exotics I love exploring creative ways to use Australian native plants in place of exotics. Working on ideas for my new plot down in Tasmania is proving to be an exciting opportunity to experiment with garden design in a different climate using a range of native plant cultivars as […]

Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2018 It is always fun to visit Australia’s most impressive gardening event and this year my attention was captured by the fabulous ‘Avenue of Achievable Gardens’. These are small display gardens designed by up and coming garden design students and there were three gardens designed by students at Melbourne […]

My Grandmother, and how I came to love native plants It is with great pride that I am introducing something very special to me to Gardening with Angus. My original inspiration in Australian plants was my maternal grandmother, a wildflower artist who had the unlikely name of Daisy Wood. She lived and worked most of […]

Wishing you a fabulous festive season…. I really want to thank each and every one of you that have taken an interest in the Gardening with Angus journey. It has been a big year for me with my retirement from Gardening Australia and 25 years of gardening talkback on Sydney ABC radio, and a monumental […]

The first copies of Grow Your Own- How To Be An Urban Farmer After a long gestation period all the hard work has paid off and my latest horticultural foray is here, so I’m pleased to be able to offer them to my newsletter readers first! This book is a bit of a departure from […]

Depending on where you are in this vast continent, the sap is stirring and plants are either out of or starting to come out of their winter hibernation. As such we thought it would be a good time to talk about planting, and as we continue to be encouraged by how many of you are […]

Wedding bells When my eldest daughter Sarah became engaged, one of her requests for her wedding was that she wanted Australian flowers, and particularly ones that I had bred. Of course I was delighted to put my hand up to bring such a lovely personal touch to the event. The only issue that confronted me […]

Farewell To Gardening Australia I have been very touched by the many messages I received after my last story on Gardening Australia. I also made the decision that I would finish my 25 year stint with ABC radio in Sydney answering gardening Qand A at the same time, given my move to Tasmania.  I am trying […]

Having a devil of a time in Tasmania One of the more wonderful things about my move to Tasmania is that I am in much closer contact with my old mates Peter Cundall and Tino Carnevale. I have long known that I share an April Fool’s birthday with Peter, but had not realized that Tino […]

Tasmania – Feel the serenity Thank you for all the nice emails after my last newsletter about my sea/tree/E-change to my new home in Tasmania. One of the factors in my decision to migrate south was climate change. And I have to say that the summer we have had in NSW has underlined that I have […]