Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

What’s Flowering Now? by Loors Landscaping

Dichorisandra thyrsiflora Blue ginger or Queens spiderwort Belonging to a genus of about 25 herbaceous clumping perenials they are native to tropical America.  Dichorisandra have rhizomatour root stocks with reed like stems.  Although known as blue ginger it is not related to Zinzeberacea.  It is related to Tradescantia (spiderwort) and Commelina (dayflower). Growing to 2m in height with [...]

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Graham Ellis, at your service - at Le Jardin Garden Centre, Flaxton

Le Jardin Garden Centre in Flaxton (next door to the French Restaurant) offers local gardeners and visitors a superb array of native and exotic plants, as well as a wealth of garden expertise from Montville local, ABC Garden Guru - Graham Ellis. Graham has four decades of horticultural experience including owning/managing 13 nurseries and writing for [...]

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Tree Changers… Vanessa & Tony Brunton

Eighteen months ago Vanessa and Tony Brunton took a personal life-changing decision to leave Townsville with their two young children  Josh (6), and Chaney (8). They came to the Hinterland and set up a dwarf citrus and nut tree farm in the Obi Obi Valley west of Mapleton. Why did you come here? We visited Flaxton 15 [...]

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Cafe expands to include new garden centre

Hinterland gardeners are in for a treat when they visit the new garden centre just opened in Flaxton in the beautiful surrounds of the Allo Allo French Tea Rooms, right next door to Le Relais Bressan. Over 1000 plants including a range of camellias, azaleas, rhododendron’s, natives, tropicals, fruit trees, and much more are now on [...]

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Sleeper Weeds by Barung Native Plant Nursery

Known weeds, and there are plenty of them, cost the Australian economy $4 billion a year. The additional cost of lost biodiversity and land degradation has not been quantified. Unfortunately, there are a further 5,907 foreign species which are in Australia, not yet weedy, but with a history of becoming weeds overseas. These are sometimes [...]

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Fragrance in Your Garden by Franz Loors of Loors Landscaping

What’s flowering now? Hippeastrum Barbados lily, Amaryllis This genus from south America has 70-75 species with at least 600 hybrids.  Intensive hybridising has produced a range of dazzling colours in singles, doubles and miniatures. Hippeastrums will grow nearly anywhere in Australia.  In Queensland they are a spring flowering bulb.  Large bold trumpet-shaped flowers are borne on hollow stems with [...]

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It’s Spring - time to grow your own …

Keen gardener and cook, Faith Baigent highlights the attractions of  having your own food garden If you have never experienced the pleasure of growing your own, then there is no time like spring to get started.  Nothing compares with the flavour, texture and crunch of crisp organic vegies and herbs picked straight from your own kitchen garden only [...]

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Plants in public

Imagine the Hinterland without its wonderful patchwork of forest, farms, large properties and beautiful gardens. Even worse, imagine the Glasshouse Mountains poking up from amongst a sea of houses. Imagine any of our coastal views without some forested landscape in the foreground. The natural landscape is very important to our tourist industry and many businesses [...]

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In the garden

  Final Winter Cleanup The final phase of winter is upon us, days are getting longer and spring will be here in the blink of an eye. August is your last chance to complete winter gardening jobs of pruning, planting etc to ensure your garden is in peak condition as we enter this glorious time of year. Remove [...]

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New Hinterland Times Website

Welcome to the new Hinterland Times Website!  We are currently loading content at a furious pace so keep us bookmarked to check out all of the hinterland happenings online. In time we will have the full magazine online including News, Features, Classifieds, Events and Entertainment - along with a few special features designed specifically for the [...]

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