Gardening

Late Autumn in the Garden

Cultivating knowledge, friendship and good will through gardening  By Tamborine Mountain Garden Club Inc. Winter is nearly here, the nights are getting cooler, and its soup and casserole weather! If you’ve planned ahead, your garden […]

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Sculpture in the Garden

By Jez Clark Last week saw the annual Tamborine Mountain Arts Trail.  Here at our design studio at Chalk House, we joined the 35 unique venues hosting local artists and enjoyed seeing so many works […]

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Easter Cassia

By Judith Roland, President, Tamborine Mountain Landcare Easter Cassia is one of the weeds of significance in our local area. Yellow flowers all over Tamborine Mountain … unfortunately this pretty plant is a weed. They […]

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Late April in the Garden

The temperatures on the mountain are still quite variable, but continue to cool as autumn advances and we head into the drier months.  This year we’ve seen Dahlias enjoying a long flowering season with many continuing […]

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The Artful Gardener

By Jez Clark Chalk House – Native Garden Project Part 3 – Soil A key factor when determining your garden design is to assess your soil.  It’s worth spending some time digging some spade-depth holes […]

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April in the Garden

By Tamborine Mountain Garden Club Inc. Cultivating knowledge, friendship and good will through gardening  April on the mountain sees purples and pinks as the dominant colours dotted around the landscape. Tibouchinas, bougainvilleas, salvias and japonica […]

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March in the Garden 

MARCH signals the beginning of Autumn.   Soon we’ll start to see beautiful tones of yellow, orange and red dotted around the mountain as the leaves of deciduous trees such as maples, liquid ambers, and crepe […]

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The Artful Gardener

Chalk House – Native Garden Project Part One My late husband and I established Chalk House in 2016.  We relocated an old workman’s cottage to our property on Alpine Terrace and began our journey of […]