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On gardening imperfectly, making life a little more beautiful, and finding happiness with your fists in the earth.
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Are you a bad gardener, or are you just a PERTH gardener? (opens the original)
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To know how to garden well in Perth, it pays to know exactly why gardening in Perth is so difficult. If every summer feels like a soul-crushing battle, you might simply not know your enemy well enough. Understanding what’s hard about gardening here means you’ll be able to fix it. Much better than having no clue why things aren’t working, and not being able to address the underlying cause.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vT-_!,f_auto,q_aut
How to Grow a Garden in Hell (continued) (opens the original)
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Hello, happy Friday!In case you missed my last newsletter (you can read it here), I’m currently writing a book about gardening in Perth. Perth is a tricky place to garden, and this is a book about what, in my opinion, actually works here. It is also a book about gardening as a pleasurable way of living rather than a list of jobs to complete.I hope it will help make gardening feel less like work and more like a creative, relaxing and life-affirming indulgence. And I hope it will make your garden
How to Grow a Garden in Hell (opens the original)
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Hello - happy Friday!So. I’m writing a book about gardening in Perth. If you live here, you’ll know that it is a hot and sandy city with nowhere near enough trees and - often - not enough gardening advice that takes into account the specific (and sometimes extreme) challenges of keeping plants alive.It’s a book about what actually works here, and also about gardening as a pleasurable way of living rather than a list of jobs to complete. I hope it will help make gardening feel less like work and
Bring back the Nanna Plant! (opens the original)
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I am a millennial. This means I belong to the generation of people who remain convinced that 1990 was 10 years ago, that 1950 was 50 years ago and therefore that a ‘Nanna Garden’ - a garden belonging to a grandmother - probably reached its apogee sometime between the 50s and the 70s.I seem to be forgetting, constantly, that I’m knocking on the door of 40. (SHUT UP NO I’M NOT YES I AM NO I’M NOT). My parents are now the grandparents and my Nanna‘s garden, in all its hills hoisted, bore-water-stai
How to embrace WA natives (without giving up your daffodils) (opens the original)
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I’ve recently discovered that I can have my cake and eat it (in this instance my ‘cake’ is an aesthetically pleasing, strange, eclectic and largely exotic garden, and ‘eating it’ is planting a bunch of local native plants and hopefully not killing them). Needless to say, I am excited. If you read my last newsletter, you’ll know that I have long avoided growing WA natives out of a mixture of trepidation, laziness and somewhat big-headed indignation about the puritanical way a lot of people seem t
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