Episode 13 | Beleura Garden Review | Weird Spooky plants | Day Lilies | Helleborus | Book review: Grow Chinese Vegetables | Inspirational gardener: Peter Andrews |

Posted on | August 18, 2009 | No Comments

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• Review : Beleura house on the Mornington Peninsula with its grand garden.
• Weird & Spooky plants -  Gympie Gympie and Colletia.
• Day Lilies – more than meets the eye.
• Helleborus -   Heirloom favourite back in fashion
• Book review : Growing Chinese Vegetables by Geri Harrington
• Inspirational gardener : Peter Andrews, bringing life to barren land.
• The veggie patch report including a look in the latest Diggers Seed Annual.
• An chat over the back fence with my friend Annie.  We chat about her unusual garden, her love of ferns, her mosaic mermaids and we have a bit of a laugh.

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Beleura house and garden on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, is open to the public on set open days.

For more information or to book in for a tour :

http://www.beleura.org.au/ or call (03) 5975 2027.

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Helleborus :

Here are links to gallery pages showing some of the different ranges of flower types found in Helleborus.

http://digitdownunder.com/flowers/?p=407

http://www.hellebores.org/gallery.html

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Colletia : beauty from the beast.  The vanilla scent is quite divine.

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Day lilies (Hemerocalllis fulva) :

Some species of day lily have edible flowers (don’t eat the leaves or stems).   The Chinese use them in stirfries, soup and more.  It’s best to make sure you have the right variety as some lily species are poisonous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylily

http://www.missouriplants.com/Redalt/Hemerocallis_fulva_page.html

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Peter Andrews is an inspiration to all gardeners.  Here is a link to the ABC TV website which has video footage of a show that featured his story and how he brought dead and barren soil back to life :

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1383562.htm

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Book review : Growing Chinese Vegetables in your own backyard by Geri  Harrington

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Gympie Gympie – A spooky Australian native plant.

http://asgap.org.au/APOL2007/sep07-s2.html

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Here’s a picture of the Wallaby who prunes number one gal pals garden.  Cute and rather well fed wouldn’t you say?

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