Gardening

Rutherglen and District Garden Club have contributed the following pages to assist and encourage readers to establish new gardens, grow their own vegetables and fruit, and continue to work with the gardens they have already established. The information is designed to assist us all to have a pleasant garden environment surrounding our homes and in our streets despite continuing hot and dry weather patterns.

Rutherglen and District Garden Club have featured some of the ideas their members are using in their gardens, along with some hints for being water wise. They also show some clever landscaping creations (using minimal or no plants), which all add some colour and structure to the garden. Using structural features adds to the overall beauty of a garden where plants need to be kept to a minimum due to a shortage of water.

We are living in a world that is encouraging us all to be more resourceful, to recycle and use our resources more efficiently, so before you throw anything out – have another look at it and see if it can be turned into something useful in the garden!

It's Only Natural

This booklet is intended to offer a sound introduction to saving water and reducing the spread of environmental weeds through encouraging native plant gardening in the North East of Victoria.

Gardening successfully with less water Part I

Because of a rising price and possible variation in supply it has become necessary to use less water in gardening. In the first of a three-part series of articles, Rutherglen Garden Club’s David Hamilton takes us through some of the ways this can be achieved.

Gardening successfully with less water Part II

Because of a rising price and possible variation in supply it has become necessary to use less water in gardening. In the second of a three-part series of articles, Rutherglen Garden Club’s David Hamilton takes us through the tricky topic of plant selection.

Gardening successfully with less water Part III

Because of a rising price and possible variation in supply it has become necessary to use less water in gardening. In the last of a three-part series of articles, Rutherglen Garden Club’s David Hamilton takes us through the tricky topic of plant selection.

Stunning gardens from scratch

Here we feature Phillip Stagg and Robyn Davies, who have recently built a new home and are starting from scratch to create a stunning garden using many water wise strategies.

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