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Dianne Hall’s Camellia of the Month for June: Camellia sasanqua slimline “Avalanche” This vibrant sasanqua “Avalanche” o...
07/06/2026

Dianne Hall’s Camellia of the Month for June: Camellia sasanqua slimline “Avalanche”

This vibrant sasanqua “Avalanche” offers a spectacular display of firm, pure white, fluffy, double blooms in autumn and through to early winter – The blooms are framed with rich glossy green foliage. And there is a slight hint of perfume -

This new slimline sasanqua offers some additional interesting traits to the world of camellias, having a unique growth habit, growing to only around 3 metres high – with a distinctive narrow growth habit, making it well suited to the modern garden with restricted gardening spaces. Absolutely perfect as a screening plant and excellent planted as a hedge.

This week’s plant: Nasturtium
06/06/2026

This week’s plant: Nasturtium

This week’s plant: Cyclamen
16/05/2026

This week’s plant: Cyclamen

Lee Prettejohn spoke about Strawberries on his segment this morning 🍓🍓He shared his wife’s famous Pavlova Recipe: INGRED...
02/05/2026

Lee Prettejohn spoke about Strawberries on his segment this morning 🍓🍓

He shared his wife’s famous Pavlova Recipe:

INGREDIENTS

- 4 eggs, separate yolks and just use white part**
- 1 & ¼ cups castor sugar
- ½ teaspoon each cornflour
- Vanilla extract
- White vinegar

**make sure eggs are at room temperature as they will not beat as well if straight from the fridge. It is also very important that no yolk gets into the white of egg as it will not beat to a stiff mixture.

METHOD:

1. Pre heat the oven to 200 deg C while mixing the egg whites.

2. Separate the eggs and place the whites into small bowl of mixer.

3. Start beating and gradually increase speed of mixer while slowly adding the castor sugar. It takes between 5 and 10 minutes to do this depending on mixer.

4. Once the mixture forms stiff peaks, reduce the speed to very low and add the cornflour, vanilla and vinegar and combine into the egg white

5. Cover a round tray with alfoil and sprinkle with water, tip off the excess. When mixture is fully mixed, spoon it onto the tray and make it into a round shape and about 2 inches high.

6. Place into oven on middle shelf for 8 minutes. Then turn oven off, leave the pavlova in the oven to cool. This gives a pavlova that is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside…

7. Remove once cooled down and place in an airtight container.

8. To serve, place pavlova upside down onto plate and remove the foil, so that the flat bottom becomes the top

9. Whip about 300mls of cream til it is thick.
I like to slice a banana straight on to the pavlova (this is optional) then cover with the whipped cream.

10. Decorate the top with sliced or halve strawberries, can add kiwi fruit for colour when in season then also sprinkle some crumbled flake over the top.

11. Enjoy this pavlova!!

Di Hall’s Camelia for May 2026: Camelia Sasanqua Hiryu This month Di has selected what she considers is the hardiest and...
02/05/2026

Di Hall’s Camelia for May 2026: Camelia Sasanqua Hiryu

This month Di has selected what she considers is the hardiest and easiest to grow of all Camellias, a sasanqua Camellia called Hiryu.

Hiryu is a very popular variety with deep rosy pink (with a few mauve tones) blooms - the flower petals have a silver sheen down the center of the petals. The large stamen center is yellow and very showy.

Hiryu has a strong vigorous growth habit with very dark green glossy leaves. These qualities making Hiryu well suited to wide variety of uses in the garden. As you may already know, Camellias generally make great pot and container specimens. Hiryu is no exception; it makes a perfect long term pot specimen that masses with color.

Hiryu is tough and forgiving and perfect for creative gardening. It is extremely versatile and can be used for high or low hedges, screening; or espaliered on walls or trained over arches; and its perfect planted as a feature shrub. It can be pruned to a single trunk and with its lower branches removed makes a stunning standard topiary specimen.

This week’s plant: Crassula Ovata or Jade Plant
02/05/2026

This week’s plant: Crassula Ovata or Jade Plant

Milton Vadoulis’ Plant for April: Grevillea ‘RSL Spirit of ANZAC’
25/04/2026

Milton Vadoulis’ Plant for April: Grevillea ‘RSL Spirit of ANZAC’

This week’s plant: Virginia Creeper
25/04/2026

This week’s plant: Virginia Creeper

This week’s plant: Banksia
11/04/2026

This week’s plant: Banksia

5AA Camellia of the Month – AprilCamellia sasanqua ‘Setsugekka’This month, Di Hall has chosen one of the easiest and tou...
04/04/2026

5AA Camellia of the Month – April
Camellia sasanqua ‘Setsugekka’

This month, Di Hall has chosen one of the easiest and toughest camellias you can grow — sasanqua ‘Setsugekka’.

Sasanqua are your autumn performers. Their flowers are a little simpler than japonicas, but they absolutely make up for it by flowering in abundance all along the stems.

‘Setsugekka’ is a standout. It has beautiful, slightly ruffled white petals with a bright golden centre — and a light, spicy perfume as well.
One of the loveliest things about it is the way the petals fall - after a few days, or even just a gentle autumn breeze, you’ll get this gorgeous white carpet underneath.

Plant it into a protected spot in the garden - it’s perfect for filling those little gaps - and it will reward you with a stunning autumn display, just when the garden really needs a lift.

Left to grow naturally, it’ll reach about three metres high and two metres wide over time.
It loves a slightly acidic, well-drained, humus-rich soil, and a feed from May through to September will keep it looking its best.

The very best time to choose a camellia is when it’s in flower…

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