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June 26, 2015

Speed Date a Sustainable Expert

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Looking forward to being part of the Alternative Technology Association’s next Speed Date a Sustainable Expert at Wyndham Vale this Saturday.  We were also part of the recent event in Moonee Valley giving advice on small gardens, incorporating small vegie plots More

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June 2, 2015

Rainforest in Coburg

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A delightful new garden room needed a garden More

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March 12, 2015

Design Clinic at MIFGS

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Small Spaces will be at the Melbourne International Garden Show (MIFGS), coming up in late March.  We will be offering design clinics along with other members of our professional body AILDM.  Go to http://designclinic.setmore.com/ to book a time with your designer of choice.  Of course if it’s a small garden you need advice on, this is what we specialise in; courtyards, balconies; front or back inner city gardens, (where small spaces live).   We cover Melbourne’s inner suburbs from Brunswick, Northcote, to Richmond, Prahran and down by the bay.

 

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February 24, 2015

Enter via the lane

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This garden is a perfect example of how infill development More

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February 16, 2015

Wildflowers from Licola to Brunswick

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Here is a nature strip in Brunswick we planted out last spring.  The garden is less than 1km from the Merri Creek, More

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February 16, 2015

Speed Date a Sustainable Expert

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Looking forward to being a part of Speed Date a Sustainable Expert coming up on Feb 21.  I will be talking about creating sustainable gardens, More

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January 16, 2015

Our Veggie Garden Project

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2nd stage – well this has inspired a summer makeover of the front garden.  Since we started with our whiteboard wish list I’ve cleared out the weeds, discovered self sown tomatoes, a few random potatoes.  The tomatoes have been staked, the soil turned over, a new crop of lettuce has gone in.  I’m using seedling lettuce as it will deliver a quicker crop for us.

I’ve taken our whiteboard wish list and given it some structure;

Planting now (late Summer) –

BED 1 – Cucumbers, Lettuce & Strawberries

BED 2 – tomatoes have been staked

BED 3 –  Capsicum

BED 4 – (on fence line with all the north light) Passionfruit

Come late Autumn through till Winter we’ll compost the soil, plant out red onions for Ben, let the Roquet self seed everywhere and plant some Broad Bean seeds, but not anywhere near the onions.

 

 

This started out as a random conversation around the dinner table, but then it got me thinking.  I’m always on about how a small veggie garden More

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January 12, 2015

Back to work

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We’re back at work for 2015.  Starting off with a roof garden More

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December 5, 2014

Courtyard in Port Melbourne

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This courtyard has had a really simple makeover, the space  More

December 5, 2014

Small gardens this Spring

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IMG_1760We’ve been incredibly busy this Spring working on lots of small gardens More

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