The Manic Botanic
Join me 3 times a week for garden design ideas, seasonal guidance, practical vegetable-growing tips, humour, and thoughtful essays on resilience, beauty, and life through gardening. Honest, real-world gardening from North Canterbury, NZ.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 138 | Founded | 10 months ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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The Hilda Ogden guide to stylish garden plants
There was a time, and I don’t think it was actually all that long ago, when I could walk through a garden and instantly spot what I considered to be “nana plants”.
There was a time, and I don’t think it was actually all that long ago, when...
Weed suppression: what actually works?
Here's everything I've tried over the years.
If there were an Olympic sport for growing weeds, my garden would have qualified years ago. As soon as the soil begins to warm in spring, weeds seem to erupt overnight. You can spend a satisfyin...
I may have taken this gardening thing too far
I’ve spent the better part of the last 25 years turning perfectly good money into plants, compost and life lessons I absolutely didn’t ask for.
After accumulating a frankly unnecessary amount of gardening knowledge - much of it learned the...
Are there butterflies on the cows?
When it comes to parenting, you’re supposed to not hover. Apparently, that supports healthy emotional development. Personally, I think this is deeply inconvenient.
My 19-year-old daughter has just departed for the very top of Norway. Alone...
I'd be a terrible landscape designer
“You should be a landscape designer.”
“You should be a landscape designer.”
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I teach you garden design, how to grow and what gardening tells us about ourselves and the world around us using honesty and humour in equal measure. Real-world gardening from North Canterbury, NZ.
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