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Meet me at the Brisbane Gardening Expo

This weekend I’ll be at the Brisbane Gardening Expo and would love to see you.  I’ll be appearing on the Ask It, Solve It stage Friday and Saturday at 11.20am.  See you there! http://www.abcgardeningexpo.com.au/

5 million visitors and counting

Okay so it’s taken me awhile to fill you in on my visit to the Taipei International Flora Expo.  Apologies for the delay but ever since returning from Taiwan it’s been go go go!  Anyway read on to learn more about what’s been entertaining over 5...

Taipei International Flora Expo 2011

In three days time I will be heading to Taiwan to enjoy the Taipei International Flora Expo.  It’s been open since November 2010 and finishes up 25 April 2011. Already 4.7 million people have visited the site spread out over 92 hectares and 14 Pavillons! The...

Garden Shows Anyone?

It’s that time of year – Spring is in the air and the garden shows are ramping up.  Recently I went to the Gardening Australia Expo in Sydney and got to see plenty of interesting things, like this beautiful desert rose (Adenium obesum hybrid).    This was...

Visiting Open Gardens

The Australian Open Gardens scheme is a fantastic system which sees over 600 gardens opened to the public around the nation.  Recently I’ve been making an effort to go and see some each weekend.  Following are pictures from two of my favourites…  The first...

Bromeliad Bonanza!

I’m just back from the Spring Show of the Bromeliad Society of NSW (www.bromsocnsw.org.au) and as expected I’ve been bitten by the bromeliad bug again.  Whilst enviously eyeing off the  prizewinning Tillandsia tectorum and T. duratii I had to contend...