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Your 2024 Gardening Guide

Lifestyle Rebecca Riddle - January 6, 2024

Here's your gardening guide for 2024 - your month by month plan for potting, planting, pruning, picking, and everything in between.

GIVEAWAY! Plant Glider

Competitions Nicole Somerville - September 2, 2021

Newcastle Weekly has two plant gliders (one 50kg and one 90kg) to give away (valued at $168).

Imported packages found containing potential Hunter Valley threat

News Rebecca Riddle - April 7, 2021

Biosecurity officers and detector dogs at the Sydney Mail Centre have intercepted two packages with plants that are known to host Australia’s number one priority plant pest. Xylella fastidiosa is a plant pest...

Keep an eye on your pets, warns Maitland vet

News Emma Murphy - October 28, 2020

A Maitland vet has issued a warning to pet owners as the weather warms up and we spend more time outside. Springtime flowers and fruit trees that can be found in Hunter residents’...

DIY: One-of-a-kind plant pot

Lifestyle Nicole Somerville - May 7, 2020

If you’re taking the opportunity to grow your own Mother’s Day gift (as per our DIY: Blooming brilliant Mother’s Day gift idea piece), why not create a one-of-a-kind plant pot to go...

An ideal month for gardening

Lifestyle Judy Sharpe - April 30, 2020

It's hard to believe that tomorrow is the beginning of May, which is an ideal month for gardening. This autumn, the temperatures have stayed quite warm, a little cooler with the rain...

Green thumb growing city’s plant community

Lifestyle Elizabeth Symington - March 5, 2020

Green Thumb Social is Jessica William’s passion project. The plant lover started the event last year as a way of bringing people who love nature together. At each social people gather, swap plants...

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