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Hi! Let me do the work to help you achieve a beautiful garden today.

Hi! I am Allison, a Tasmanian private estate gardener.

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From Frugal To Free

22 Historical Cities That Cost More to Live In - Ever fantasized about living in a page from an American history textbook? Imagine sipping your morning coffee in a colonial townhouse or taking evening s...
7 hours ago
Blog - Jane Perrone

My top three purple houseplants - It's a houseplant Prince-off!
8 hours ago
Fine Gardening

Episode 157: Flowering trees for every season - Due to their size and expense, gardeners tend to put a lot more thought into the trees they ultimately buy for their landscape. While a perennial might onl...
8 hours ago
The Irish Aesthete

Another Light Hand - No.36 Westland Row, Dublin and its exquisite neoclassical plasterwork has featured here before (see A Light Hand « The Irish Aesthete) Home for more than 1...
19 hours ago
Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Dawn Redwood, about seven years later. - I planted this Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, in 2017. It's starting to leaf out now for spring. Quite impressive. Here is the tree when ...
1 day ago
Rambling in the Garden

Wordless Wednesday: Not as Regal as She Looks -
2 days ago
Green Tapestry

Wordless Wednesday ~ RHS Harlow Carr -
2 days ago
Fringe Association

Two new(ish) things - Hi again — I hope you’ve been well! I’ve got two things to update you on: 1. THE TIP JARIt is indescribably rewarding that thousands of people per week c...
3 days ago
Out My Window

Tuesday, What happened to Monday? edition - How is it I can miss a whole day? I mean I knew yesterday was Monday, I mean I mailed my tax checks in, and I ran around all day. The shop was crazy ...
3 days ago
Not Buying Anything

Freedom From Owning Things - Most humans see owning stuff as a good thing. The more stuff, the better. But is that actually true? "Other animals don’t anguish with such existen...
4 days ago
Down to Earth

Where happiness is lurking - It's my birthday today, I'm 76. 🙂 I love being my age. Every stage of life brings new joys and challenges and now is no different. I know some people ...
4 days ago
Murtagh's Meadow

Silent Sunday – 14th April 2024 - Connemara – Rock Your World
5 days ago
Reclaiming Paradise

From the archives - I’ve been a member of Garden Organic since I got my first garden in 1992. Apart from supporting an important organisation, membership brings a newsletter a...
6 days ago
Fred, a French Gardener2

Six on Saturday 13-04-24 - Hello everyone, it’s Saturday again and time to recap the week. Cold and windy at first, then mild and sunny now. And the coming week seems to be looking l...
6 days ago
One Man And His Garden Trowel

Six on Saturday (13 April 2024) - A fairly brisk Six on Saturday today as I’m off to work in a moment (one of the rare Saturdays in the year one has to do archivisty things). Thankfully, I ...
6 days ago
The Frugal Farm Wife

Canning Strawberries: Step-By-Step - Interested in canning strawberries, but aren’t sure where to start? This tutorial will show you... The post Canning Strawberries: Step-By-Step appeared f...
1 week ago
fit for a queen

Custom Cuffs and Bands and More - This poly chiffon project might just be coming to an end… On closer inspection, the original front band was in two pieces, not just folded under as a facin...
1 week ago
Talking Plants

American oaks stop one degree short of equator - *Flora de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783–1816), vol. XIV, p. 26* Panama is just about where the southward journey of the oak...
1 week ago
Off The Edge Gardening Blog

Six on Saturday – Stormy - The prospect of Storm Kathleen hovers. She is the 11th named storm of the year and will undoubtedly bringing mayhem and destruction in her skirt tails. Whi...
1 week ago
The Blooming Garden

Garden Nostalgia. - I now have a small garden but I am very much involved with the garden I owned and loved 18 years ago now we live very close by. The garden was nearly 11 ac...
3 weeks ago
Strong Money Australia

Is The Great Taking Real? - I recently got an email from a concerned reader: “I have followed your podcast and articles for a while and enjoy your content. I’m wondering if you’ve wat...
4 weeks ago
Good Life Permaculture

Home Harvest edible garden trail: 2024 Wrap Up! - As we wrap up our fifth Home Harvest edible garden trail, it’s always good to pause and take a moment to reflect on the greatness that just was. Cause it w...
4 weeks ago
Wild Daffodil

Under the Sea: Coral Cave - I tell myself – enough now! There are other projects pending. Do I listen – of course not! And there is still plenty of my Mum’s stash to use up. Plus, I w...
4 weeks ago
Gardening know how Archives - The Middle-Sized Garden

Sloping garden solutions – the real truth about gardening successfully on a slope - You don't have to buy special plants if you have a sloping garden. With these tips, you can create beautiful borders on any kind of slope. The post Slopi...
5 weeks ago
The Nostalgic Gardener

Spring in waiting (Six on Saturday) - I thought I would bounce into a Six on Saturday for a little analysis of the garden in early spring (which began yesterday, on 1st March, as far as I am co...
1 month ago
Invitation to the Garden

Bogged Down Again - Last month’s new beginning got bogged down again. Our usually sunny January of dazzling snow shrunk into dirty slush under heavy grey skies. Bright skies r...
2 months ago
Frugal Debt Free Life

16 FREE or FRUGAL Date Nights - I asked you guys over on Instagram for some frugal or free date night ideas, and this is what you came up with. I love it!
2 months ago
Mr. Money Mustache

How To Afford a House These Days - The other day, an MMM reader stopped by and left the following comment on one of my older posts about the principles of FIRE: As with every critique of our...
2 months ago
All the Blue Day

New Beginnings - Hello to you, my lovelies. It is I, I have returned from a long space of reflection and reorientation after my Dad died. It has been discombobulating, bu...
2 months ago
Canarella

Homemade Bone Broth - Something I do every year regardless of any other issues my broth collections is a must. I do Chicken Broth, Beef Stock and the latest is Bone Broth. I hav...
3 months ago
Mad Fientist

The Best Advice from JL Collins - I collected all of the best advice from my three interviews with the author of The Simple Path to Wealth, JL Collins! Read more → The post The Best Advi...
4 months ago
The Pink Shed

FEEDING THE WILDLIFE THIS WINTER - At this time of year, when the crops and flowers are far and few between and the weather is getting... The post FEEDING THE WILDLIFE THIS WINTER appeared...
4 months ago
our life hand-made

finishing things and making a mess - it’s been too long, and I apologise for that, stuff has overwhelmed me and underwhelmed me……it’s all taking a while to settle in and recover myself, findin...
5 months ago
Vertical Veg

Why chillies are such a great choice to grow in containers - … Why chillies are such a great choice to grow in containers READ MORE The post Why chillies are such a great choice to grow in containers appeared firs...
6 months ago
The Frustrated Gardener Blog

By: The Frustrated Gardener - In reply to George Wesley Kitchen. Thank you George! I’ve had an explore v...
8 months ago
Cold Climate Gardening

The Great Garden Rescue - Moving Plants Out of Harm’s Way Before Construction Starts A year ago last March, I learned that renovations were planned for our home. The kitchen was goi...
9 months ago
Imaginary Animal

Sparkly New Glitter Kitty Stickers - I'm so excited to share these new stickers with you! Ever since we introduced our Holo Kitty stickers, they have been a best seller. We originally offe...
9 months ago
Wood Cookstove Cooking

Cole's Hot Blast Ranges and Cookstoves - In my occasional trollings through Ebay, I sometimes run across some interesting cookstove ephemera that I want to share here on the blog. Tonight, we ha...
1 year ago
For the Love of Iris

March Gardening Tip – Protect your growing gardens from slugs and snails this spring! - Spring showers bring not only flowers! Slug and snail season is upon us and these slimy gastropods love, love, loveto chomp away at iris and daylily foliag...
1 year ago
Home | Homestead Honey: Radical Homesteading Blog and Off the Grid Living

70+ Best Storage Varieties for Root Cellaring - Root cellaring is one of my favorite methods of food preservation. Once you have a root cellar, and have learned more about ideal conditions for root cel...
1 year ago
Dividends Down Under

DDU Dividend Update: September 2022 - Author: Mr and Mrs DDU. *Disclaimer: Stocks mentioned on this blog are for general entertainment/documentation purposes only, following our own investmen...
1 year ago
The Propagator Blog

Six on Saturday – Transition - As you may have gathered from the decreasing levels of enthusiasm in my weekly posts, gardening has become something of a chore in the last year, much lowe...
1 year ago
The Impractical Architect

That’s how the light gets in - It’s hard to know how to respond properly to the recent Bartlett report. At first glance, the kinds of bullying and gaslighting exposed at UCL all sound de...
1 year ago
A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Edible Landscaping Portfolio from 2021 - As stated in the last blog post, we started an edible landscaping company in 2021. We have amassed the pictures into a portfolio page with descriptions....
2 years ago
Kitty Cotten

Best Blogging Tips - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Nunc sed blandit libero volut...
2 years ago
Home -

Investment Bonds – A diabolically ineffective investment structure - I do not write many blog posts these days. I hope that means what I do produce is something that I am passionate about and that comes through when I type...
2 years ago
The Flying Fleece

Window Shopping: Dear Golden Vintage - When I lived in Michigan, I used to walk by Dear Golden just to see their window displays. Now that I am far away, I look at their spectacular knitwear on ...
3 years ago
a hopeful nature

Little Lavender Pillows - Little lavender pillows, sewn from squares of beautiful fabric and filled with fragrant dried lavender flowers, make simple and lovely handmade gifts. Litt...
3 years ago
Suits Me

Style ARC Blaire Dress - This is my first try at a Style ARC pattern and in the end, I’d say it was a success. This dress was another item that I made for my vacation to Puerto Ric...
3 years ago
Early Retirement Extreme

Early Retirement Extreme audiobook finally available! - Over the past ten years ever since the ERE book was published back in I’ve received requests for translations and an audiobook while redirecting people bac...
3 years ago
The Woolly Whiskers

The Blue Marilyn Dress pt 3 – Finished! - My flowery Marilyn dress! I’m in love! AND the seller has made a multi sized version of the pattern, and corrected the quirks! HERE’s the link, not sponsor...
3 years ago
Growing A Pacific NorthWest Garden

Changing Back to Blogger - After a trial of 9 months on WordPress, I’m changing back to the Blogger platform. The main reason is how difficult it is for me to log on WordPress. Often...
3 years ago
Surviving the Suburbs

The Medicine of the Future - It's fascinating to me when, what seem completely independent, aspects of my life converge. Deus Ex Machina and I are historical fiction fanatics. We real...
4 years ago
The Poor Farm

So Long Best LGD Ever. - Fannie, our best livestock guardian dog ever, died a couple weeks ago and we've all had a hard time adjusting to her absence. She had been with us sev...
4 years ago
Beach Clean Art Blog

Branscombe: 4th. March - A quick beach clean in icy winds
6 years ago
Wardrobe Ecology – making things, asking questions

Remedy for the listless: make nine - If in turning the new year you find yourself coming up short in inspiration, a quick list offers a tool to rekindle: make nine. A long, drawn-out sewing pr...
6 years ago
A Country Farmhouse

Spring Cozies - Thank you for all of your kind, supportive words. I've forgotten how wonderful it feels to share such warm, positive energy with dear friends across th...
7 years ago
integral permaculture

PatternDynamics (TM): An Article, and More Workshops in the U.S. - Tim Winton, from New South Wales, Australia, recently visited the west coast of the U.S. and Canada, and I had the privilege of organizing one of his Patte...
11 years ago
WMJAMES

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Glensheen

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Grow Veg

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Freshisle Fibers

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Piet Oudolf

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Tasmanian Inspo+Links

Botanic Resources
Catherine Cretan Garden Design
Cloudscapes
Davide Figliuolo
Deep Earth Sustainable Landscapes
Karls Home and Garden
Landscapes4U
Landscaping Hobart
Lange Design
Lange Design
Loci Landscapes
Outlook Concepts
Ovata Gardens
Patrick Graham
Play Street
Provence Stone Masonary Tas
SLS Landscape Group
Susan McKinnon Design
The Fork in The Road
The Veggie Patch Guy
Three Squares Landscaping
Total Gardening Services

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