Life is a garden (Bulleen Garden and Art)
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Episode: Saving Your Backyard
If your garden is suffering through a lack of water and you don’t know who to turn to for help you should visit your local garden centre as they can be a fantastic source of information. They can help you out on the appropriate plants to use and Australia’s best can actually help you do things like “make your own water”.
Bulleen Art and Garden centre in Melbourne is an excellent example as they have just picked up the Yates Australia wide Nursery and Garden Industry (NGIA) community and environmental awards for 2007.
You will find a selection of really tough drought proof plants like the Silver Bush (Convolvulus oneorum) that is almost un-killable once it is established and it only grows to about 40cm in height.
Paper Daisy (Bracteantha brateata cv) add a splash of colour and they are as tough as all getup.
The pretty miniature Limelight Acacia (Acacia cognate ‘Limelight’) makes a beautiful mound of weeping foliage.
The thing that impresses Neville most about the garden centre is the help that they give home gardeners on some of the pressing challenges of today and a great place to start is the water supply.
Grey water is an obvious resource but it is important that you make use of it in a safe and effective manner. Bulleen as working models that allows you to understand the elements before you commit yourself to action.
Rainwater harvesting sounds very sensible but sometimes the numbers just don’t add up so it makes a lot of sense to go to a class where you can do the figures and see if it is an effective way to spend your money.
Bulleen is also leading the community in sustainable gardening. This means they are working with nature to minimise the use of scarce resources such as water and power. Bulleen will inform you on how to avoid strong chemical solutions, how to keep weeds out of the environment, how to use compost and wastes effectively, worm farms and also producing your own food at home.
Bulleen Garden and Art
6 Manningham Rd West
Bulleen
Open 7 Days
(03) 9850 5155
Episode: Saving Your Backyard
If your garden is suffering through a lack of water and you don’t know who to turn to for help you should visit your local garden centre as they can be a fantastic source of information. They can help you out on the appropriate plants to use and Australia’s best can actually help you do things like “make your own water”.
Bulleen Art and Garden centre in Melbourne is an excellent example as they have just picked up the Yates Australia wide Nursery and Garden Industry (NGIA) community and environmental awards for 2007.
You will find a selection of really tough drought proof plants like the Silver Bush (Convolvulus oneorum) that is almost un-killable once it is established and it only grows to about 40cm in height.
Paper Daisy (Bracteantha brateata cv) add a splash of colour and they are as tough as all getup.
The pretty miniature Limelight Acacia (Acacia cognate ‘Limelight’) makes a beautiful mound of weeping foliage.
The thing that impresses Neville most about the garden centre is the help that they give home gardeners on some of the pressing challenges of today and a great place to start is the water supply.
Grey water is an obvious resource but it is important that you make use of it in a safe and effective manner. Bulleen as working models that allows you to understand the elements before you commit yourself to action.
Rainwater harvesting sounds very sensible but sometimes the numbers just don’t add up so it makes a lot of sense to go to a class where you can do the figures and see if it is an effective way to spend your money.
Bulleen is also leading the community in sustainable gardening. This means they are working with nature to minimise the use of scarce resources such as water and power. Bulleen will inform you on how to avoid strong chemical solutions, how to keep weeds out of the environment, how to use compost and wastes effectively, worm farms and also producing your own food at home.
Bulleen Garden and Art
6 Manningham Rd West
Bulleen
Open 7 Days
(03) 9850 5155
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