Companion Planting

🌱 We’re Hiring 🌱
Companion Planting is looking for friendly, passionate gardeners to join our team on a casual basis. You’ll be working one-on-one with people of all ages and abilities in their homes or units, helping with hands-on gardening tasks such as weeding, light pruning, transplanting, relocating pots, and mulching.
Perfect for someone with good general gardening skills and a love of working with people.
Interested? Check out our website: companionplanting.com.au or send me a DM. Feel free to comment below with any general questions.

Winter has arrived in Brisbane I love having a deciduous tropical birch (betula nigra) tree in the backyard. The fallen leaves not only look great, but they mulch my garden. And the bare branches allow the afternoon sun onto our verandah. Winning!

Funny story: Cris and I were heading home the other day, after our morning of gardening, when she spotted a hitchhiker in the back seat (I was driving). I must admit I was relieved to see it was a bearded dragon, not a snake, that had caught her eye. Fortunately we hadn’t gone very far, so our new friend could be returned to his home garden.

If you are keen to chat about Therapeutic Horticulture with other like-minded garden lovers, and you live in SE QLD, please come and hang with us in the Maroochy Bushland Botanical Garden this Sunday from 10am.
Link below with more details or send me a PM if you want to carpool from Brisbane.

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I’ve loved seeing all the beautiful gardens and creative ideas here at the flower and garden festival. Thanks again Therapeutic Horticulture Australia and Beyond Blue for inviting me to speak and for all the amazing work you do in our communities.

I am so excited to be running workshops on Composting and Worm Farming at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show on Saturday 29th March, from 11am -1pm. Thank you the Beyond Blue and THA for the opportunity to get involved.

In partnership with Beyond Blue, THA are running workshops at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show to help you discover how working with plants can help you unwind, support your wellbeing, and restore your focus and attention.

26th-30th March

Reserve your spot now at https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/therapeutic-horticulture-workshops-at-beyond-blue-4152903

All my potted plants are safely inside and protected from the winds of Cyclone Alfred. The family are not exactly thrilled about the increase in spider webs, but I’m loving the look!!! 😀

Hot tip for caring for your indoor plants this Summer. Put all the plants in the shower or bath and water from up high until water runs through. This ensures a deep watering while also washing off dust and marks from their leaves. Allow the plants to drain before returning them back into their usual position.
I leave my indoor plants in the shower while I go on holidays as the bathroom is often one of the cooler rooms of the house. It also creates a humid microclimate, and having all your plants in the same place makes watering a quick easy job for a friend while you’re away, and you know that none will get missed.

And that’s a wrap! I really enjoyed our tour of the Western Downs. We drove 1300km. Spoke at 6 libraries and schools. Met so many great people. Talked all things composting, worms and native bees. Partook in amateur ‘birding’. And checked out local sights. Thanks Western Downs Regional Council. And many thanks Kylie Davidson.