Sandra Ross gives us all the tips on growing lovely liliums.

Sandra and Graham talk about the veggie patch - a great thing to do while at home.

Sandra gives us three topics to get your autumn garden productive - Bulbs to plant now, Magic Mulch, and some tips about autumn roses.

Welcome to the podcast gardening souls! From my forest green heart, thank you for joining me. Today we travel to Tanzania, metaphorically, to chat about a forest groundcover that we in Australia grow inside -a plant you'll see at Nanna's house -the African Violet. My friend Beverley Donsworth has been growing African Violets for forty years and is the President of the African Violet Association and joins me with all you need to know to reflower these frilly indoor beauties. They are one of...

The Garden Clinic heads off to Japan this week for a very special mauve-tinted expedition to see the wonderful wisteria. Much of my love of gardening revolves around the anticipation of a single ephemeral event: winter's sweet lemon scented white daphne, spring's species tulips, streets fleetingly fringed with jacaranda; and wisteria's short-lived lilac lace. • To sit or stand underneath a flowering wisteria vine in full bloom, gazing through the mauve veil of flowers, inhaling the scent,...

I have loved frangipanis as long as I can remember. They fragrance transports me back to simple summer days at the beach collecting flowers for float bowls and smelling like sunscreen. Welcome to a new year, Green Souls! Good news: the podcast is back from a long summer break! From my forest green heart, thank you for joining me here for another series. I'm kicking things off with my favourite flower, the fabulous Frangipani Collecting interesting cultivars has been a passion of mine for...

More people grow tomatoes than any other fruit or vegetable. But results can be mixed. Set yourself up with the right advice for a bounty harvest in an Australian environment. There is much joy to be had in picking sun-ripened, richly flavoured sweet tomatoes from your own garden. But it's not easy - with summer temps set to soar into the forties - it's time to get serious about garden grown tomatoes. This week Linda Ross is in her kitchen garden, sharing her tried and trusted tips and...

Geraniums are an excellent choice for our changing, warming climate. They thrive in bright sunny gardens, hanging out of window-boxes and adorning pots on balconies. And scented varieties are wonderful when picked and placed in a soothing hot bath! Linda visits Riva Dale's gorgeous and very popular Geranium Cottage in the north west of sydney. It's a hub of activity with a wonderful selection of hybrids, a delicious cafe and homemade jams and jellies. Linda and Riva discuss how to grow...

Linda chats to Milkwood co-founder Nick Ritar about harvesting seaweed for the garden, starting a summer tomato patch and growing your own mushrooms. These helpful topics are featured in an inspiring new book ~ Milkwood - Real Skills for Down to Earth Living. Which I'm sure will get you on the right road for growing, making, foraging, keeping, creating, cooking and baking. As the Milkwood crew says,"The skills that we learn bind our lives together. Do you want to learn how to grow your own...

In their new book 'The Village', Matt and Lentil describe connecting to your village may just bring the good health, happiness and longevity you seek. Connecting to a simpler way of life where we rely on each other is one of the secrets to the world's blue zones - areas where health, happiness and longevity are at their highest points on the planet. It's about nurturing and being nurtured, it's for everyone who wants to share with the ones you love. Through their insta page and books Matt...

Do you think there is a kindness deficit in the world? I do! But not in this little corner of Australia. Today we visit a not-for-profit community therapy garden and nursery in the west of Sydney where the bees are buzzing and volunteers are laughing in a brand new safe space. And it's kind and exciting to see it in action.Marianne Farrar is at the coal face of therapeutic horticulture! She is a living, breathing example of it and its benefits for her various able bodied volunteers to work...

Indoor plants are clever things. They filter toxins from our homes to create healthy and happy green rooms for us to live within. Lauren Camilleri has a degree in interior architecture and graphic design in her bones and a love for foliage, she lives for matching the right plant with the nook where it can live its best life. Her fave plant is Monstera delicosa (aka swiss cheese plant) obvs, those graphic glossy leaves are a designers dream. But it's definitely not a case of style over...

What are the therapeutic benefits of gardening in social housing, preschools, schools, health services and aged care? Dr Kate Neale from Southern Cross University is keen to find out, starting with KindyGarden, a program aimed at getting 3-5 year olds growing food. For more information in this field check out the upcoming therapeutic gardening conference on the Gold Coast where Kate will be speaking.Australian Therapeutic Horticulture Conference October 25-26-27,...

Meet Sophie Thomson - Garden consultant, media presenter and author of Sophie's Patch In the beautiful Adelaide Hills, this week's podcast guest Sophie Thomson is well known to viewers of ABCTV Gardening Australia who witnessed the evolution of this stunning garden. From a dry landscape, Sophie has transformed her patch of dirt into Hamlyn Cottage with a bush garden and has documented all in her new book - Sophie's Patch. Linda and Sophie share a love of home grown veggies and share recipes...

In this podcast Linda and the Chook Lady, Claire Bickle, discuss everything you need to know about keeping backyard chickens. Gardening, chooks, children and nature are at the heart of everything Claire does. Her love for the natural world stems from many a childhood day spent in the company of her grandmother, an avid gardener and plant lover. Claire lives on acreage in the western suburbs of Brisbane, with three children and her feathered flock and is delighted with her own patch. Here...

Linda chats with her dear friend, plant collector, and Collectors’ Plant Fair exhibitor, David Kennedy - Nurseryman and owner of Clover Hill and Highfields Gardens. Over the past four years, David has worked endlessly to create Highfield Gardens, an eight acre masterpiece of rare cool climate gems. 100 kilometres west of Sydney is a completely different climate and David has managed to grow cool climate plants with great success. He moved to Hartley after literally running out of space at...

Linda talks to Myles Baldwin, award winning garden designer and horticulturist who designs unique gardens with a sense of place, heritage and character, about a stunning show garden he’s designed for the Singapore Garden Festival. Singapore Garden Festival is a biennial show held in the grounds of the Gardens by the Bay precinct. It’s like a tropical Chelsea Flower Show drawing more crowds than its English counterparts. Each year it showcases 10 international designers in a garden...

This week Linda Ross talks to Paul West, the star of Lifestyle Channel's (now SBS) series River Cottage Australia, who has swapped his bucolic Tilba home on the NSW South Coast for a city life in Thornbury, in Melbourne’s inner north.The chef-turned-sustainable-farmer married his partner Alicia in 2016 and moved south, along with their young sons, Otto and Bowie. Fans of the show will be pleased to learn that West’s scene-stealing border collie Digger has also made the journey and is busy...

Linda interviews third generation Camellia specialist Ross Campbell from Sydney’s Camellia Grove.They discuss how to grow camellias- what they like, dislike and how to fix problems and treat troublesome insect attack.For more Camellia inspiration and to find out what Camellia suits you garden best visit Camellia Grove, Cattai Ridge Rd, Glenorie www.camelliagrove.com.auRead:Stirling Macaboy, ‘What Camellia is That?’E.G Waterhouse, Camellia Quest and Camellia TrailVisit:Camden Park House and...

Linda gets excited about the glamour girls of winter... the gorgeous genus Camellia. Walking around her favourite specialist Camellia nursery, in the dead of winter, she introduces you to these lavish yet versatile evergreen shrubs. Linda recounts their fascinating origins and how they left Asia to become the darlings of Europe and then Australia. She explains the difference types: miniature Fairy wings, sasanqua, japonica and reticulata and lists her favourite fragrant...

Linda is joined by Ali Mentesh from Red Cow Farm to talk about his garden, incredible collection of roses, his six favourites plus secrets to success.  Seduced by the colour, forms and perfumes of roses, Ali Mentesh has already collected some 200 to adorn the garden rooms at Red Cow Farm. Can he choose a favourite?  Roses are central to the dreamy delights of Red Cow Farm, a 2.5 hectare garden just outside the village of Sutton Forest in the Southern Highlands of NSW. Gardened by Ali Mentesh...

Jog your memory with Linda’s list of winter gardening jobs.  Sharpen your tools, clean them regularly and store small hand tools in a bucket of clean sand with a little multipurpose 3 in 1 oil to moisten. Indoor plant care Citrus pruning time Fruit tree planting time Get into the veggie patch as there’s still time to plant Brassica vegetables including broccoli, sprouting broccoli, cabbage, turnips/turnip greens, rocket, kale, and all types of lettuce. Also plant shelling peas and sugar snaps...

Linda Ross chats to special guest Peter Thorburn from Honeysuckle Garden (www.honeysucklegarden.com.au). They discuss the secrets to a happy healthy garden and a simple way of preventing plant pests whilst attracting local wildlife and beneficial insects.  With over 40 years of nursery experience, Peter has created a stable of three sensational garden centres in Sydney Australia and came across an organic magic mix that Linda says will not only make plants jump out of their skins but will...

Linda Ross and special guest Tim Drewitt (www.redearthbulbs.com) discuss how to choose bulbs that flower year after year, getting bigger and how to plant them so they bloom in full glory in spring and summer You’ll hear:Why we love bulbs!What are the best bulbs to plant if you’re after more bang for your buckLinda’s favourite bulbs and how to grow them including:Drumstick AlliumGaldioliIxiaTulipsFreesiasDutch IrisDaffodils Red Earth Bulb Farm (www.redearthbulbs.com)...are a small, family...