SubTropical Queensland Open Garden

  What can I say about January and February other than it has been hot and humid. This summer has been the hottest we have experienced here at Birkdale, hardly a night below 24 c and most day...

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  Usually at this time of year it is all systems go getting ready for an ‘Open Garden’ but we did say that after 20 years of opening 2022 was going to be our last and so far, we will stick...

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  Two months without a drop of rain, it is so disheartening to see the garden so drought stricken. We have managed to use tank water until a couple of weeks ago but now we must rely on town w...

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  July was a quiet month with watering taking up most of our time. Of the large Pandanus which continually dropped large prickly leaves, thanks to our good friends Mike and Wendy Budden for t...

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  I seem to be spending most of my life these past two months watering as it has been extremely dry, badly needing some good falls of rain. May has been busy with visits from ‘Banksia Garde...

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  I did not post in March as I just could not get past the horrible weather that we had virtually all month. It was hot, humid, and very dry and I seemed to spend most of that month watering p...

http://ianjudy.blogspot.com/2023/05/march-and-april-2023-garden-news.html

  Well February was quite a horrible month for gardening, only rained once and temperature was in the 30c or more most days. Having been in our Birkdale property for 34 years I would say this...

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  First entry for 2023, here I am sitting in front of my computer after a hard day in the garden working in 35 c heat. It’s a bad time of the year as our three large gum trees are losing al...

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  We started off the month with a bust tour from ‘The Gap Garden Club’, we don’t usually accept visitors prior to an ‘Open Garden’ but decided to make an exception as we hold this cl...

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  I am finding it quite hard to do this month’s blog as I am just so time poor with getting ready for bus visits and of course this years ‘Open garden’ which will be our last one. We ha...

http://ianjudy.blogspot.com/2022/10/september-garden-news-2022.html

  Not much to say about August as we had no garden presentations and one bus trip. The Sub Tropical Garden Club came here from the Sunshine Coast and they were all plant lovers who really enj...

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  I have not posted for a month due to Judy being hospitalized for two weeks with a serious foot infection, driving every day to the hospital meant little gardening has been done. The goo...

http://ianjudy.blogspot.com/2022/08/june-and-july-2022-garden-news.html

  We had a bus tour here from ‘Pelican Waters Garden Club’ of 50 members who stayed all morning and really enjoyed the garden. This was our first bus trip for ages. ...

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  Still making improvements to the garden with six minor garden renovations this year which means old plants dug out and new ones in, it never stops. The biggest job was t...

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  Well March was certainly different. Rain, rain and more rain, more than we have ever seen, in all we had over one metre fall from the sky. The garden was waterlogged but no problems as the...

http://ianjudy.blogspot.com/2022/04/march-garden-news-2022.html

  This is my second attempt to write his blog as previously the power went off just as I was to hit the save, ‘bugger’ and I was doing so well. With all the rain the garden has grown amaz...

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Back to blogging after a break. Of course, December we were still cleaning up after the 19th ‘Open Garden’ and then our family came down from Agnes Water to spend Christmas with us. As usu...

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  Well, the 2021 Open Garden is well and over and it was the hardest one we have put on. Both Judy and I worked ourselves really hard both in getting ready and the after cleaning up. Even tw...

http://ianjudy.blogspot.com/2021/12/garden-news-november-2021.html

  The Giving Garden Ian and Judy Wintle are going to open their beautiful one-acre Birkdale Garden on the weekend of 20 AND 21 NOVEMBER 2021 for the 19TH time, it would have been twenty but C...

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 Another month without a drop of rain, the garden is really starting to dry out and very windy also. No garden presentations this month, it's been quite barren this year of course due to Covid...

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A quiet month in the garden and very dry. We had a little break and went up to Agnes Water to see our son and family, it was nice to relax and have time to read a book. The Red Geranium is ...

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 Trip to Centenary Landscapes at Darra today to collect one metre of potting mix and some composted bark. This is for Judy to continue propagating and for me to start potting all my stored Amo...

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