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&Backyard This beautiful setting was part of one of the Open Gardens in last year’s Gympie Garden Expo, which is on again this year on the weekend of Saturday May 5 and Sunday May 6 at the Gympie Showgrounds. See story page 28

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This Expo will get you in the garden!

Visitors to the Gympie Garden Expo are in for a real treat over the weekend of Saturday May 5 and Sunday May 6 at the Gympie Showgrounds.

This expo will get you in the garden growing happy, healthy fruit trees from the ground up and finding out about our sustainable heritage and how to rediscover it.

You will also have the opportunity to enjoy open gardens, and explore market stalls that provide local knowledge and the best in tools and techniques, seeds and art.

Go on an Indigenous journey, find out about the wonder of native bees and get hands on with orchids, bonsai and anthuriums.

On Saturday join Cath Manuel, who has enjoyed many years’ experience in the horticulture industry with a passion for growing fresh organic food and living a sustainable lifestyle. Her talks are on healthy fruit growing, offering simple tips to get your fruit trees flourishing, while working out the magic ingredients to maintain your soil health.

Adam Woodhams is dedicated to sharing his passion offering approachable ways to explore horticulture and sustainability. He reminds us that what we would call sustainability today was common practice just a generation or two ago, when waste was a word rarely used in the home and garden. So where did we go wrong?

On Sunday at Compost Corner, be inspired by Paul Plant with practical tips to maintaining a healthy garden. Aboriginal elder Eugene Bargo

Tobias the bee guru explores the native flora and signs to look out for in his seasonal story.

Returning by popular demand, Dr Tobias Smith is native bee guru, helping us understand more about these interesting creatures.

Over the weekend, workshops on how to identify orchids and get them thriving will be answered by orchid devotee and Society President, Jim Evans.

Bring the kids for a garden experience and a whole lot of fun.

Cost to enter is only $5 with kids free, open 8am-4pm on Saturday and 8am-3pm on the Sunday. For event details and open gardens, go to www.gympiegardenexpo.com.au.

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One of the enjoyable things about having a garden is that, even if most of it is a train wreck, it only takes one special spot to give you that ‘ahhhhhh’ moment.

That moment where you’re happy just to be there and it gives you the greatest sense of fulfilment to know that you created that one spot.

It might be a place where you can sit and contemplate, it might be a garden bed which is productive and feeds the family, or it might be – like mine – a view line which I just love.

Mine is a simple granite fencepost I picked up years ago which I’ve placed at the end of a vine covered arbour. You see it from the back of the house and as you walk through the backyard. It just draws your eye down through the arbour to what lies beyond.

I’ve found that one great benefit from visiting the open gardens during the Maleny Garden Club’s annual ‘Gardening on the Edge’ weekend (this coming June 9 and 10) is that you get to see lots of these special places where you can draw ideas for your own backyard.

What’s the special spot in your garden?

Take a photo and send it to me at brownie@gcnews.com.au with a short description of why it’s special to you.

Courtesy of the Maleny Garden Club, we’ve got five double passes to see all six of the Gardening on the Edge open gardens to give away. Winners will be randomly drawn from those who send me their favourite garden spot. Entries close 5pm Friday May 18.

Find out more about the Gardens on the Edge weekend by going to www.malenygardenclub.org/.

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Sweet treats from the bush Many Australian flowering plants produce large, bright red or orange flowers with tubular structures containing copious amounts of dilute sweet nectar. These are bird-pollinated (or ornithophilous) plants, and include eucalypts, paperbarks, banksias, grevilleas, bottlebrushes and hakeas. Birds have a high visual acuity, seeing colours in the red and orange spectrums most clearly, whereas they have a poor sense of smell, hence ornithophilous plants rarely have strong scents.

Australia’s eucalypts and paperbarks are the only bird-pollinated trees on the planet to form vast forests. Nectar birds dominate these ecosystems, particularly wattlebirds, honeyeaters and lorikeets. Unlike fruit, seeds and insects, which, once eaten, are gone, the same flower may be visited ten to twenty times a day and may produce nectar for up to 20 days. Such copious sources of nectar are a resource well worth guarding, hence many Australian nectar birds are large with feisty aggressive natures and loud raucous calls. Long beaks and brushy tongues have also evolved to assist in nectar capture.

Nectar is not the only sweet treat produced by the Aussie bush. Manna is a sugary substance that exudes from damaged plant material, and later crystallizes. Manna and honeydew, the sugary secretions of nymphal stages of aphids, coccids and psyllids, are prized food sources for many birds, including honeyeaters.

Another favourite food resource is lerp, an exudate from psyllid insects, which produce this white substance to protect their larvae.

Lerp is full of sugars and carbohydrates and feeds an amazing range of mammals and birds.

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Open seven days a week, the family run business has a massive range of equipment for hire. Operating since 1991, the business has been supplying an ever-expanding range of hire equipment to North Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast with hundreds of items available.

Current owners Ian and Jillanne took over in 2007 and their aim is to provide a friendly, accessible service to ensure you get the job done right. They deal with everyone from professional builders, to tradespeople needing backup equipment or extra resources, to property owners wanting to improve their house, backyard or garden.

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“If they are unsure about how to do something or what they might need – no question is too silly to ask. Sometimes if you don’t know the answer it really just pays to ask … that’s what we are here for!”

With all the recent rains, dealing with drainage issues is currently proving popular with homeowners as well as garden maintenance work. Items such as excavators, bobcats, kanga loaders and chippers can be provided with their own trailer. R & R Hire Services offer a delivery service or you can pick up from their yard.

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In the Garden Jobs for the yard in May

• Grass growth will be starting to slow down

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• Pinch out tips of broad beans to encourage

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• Snapdragons make a wonderful display in spring and now is the time to plant out seedlings.

• Plant dormant fruit trees from now until August.

• If you have low-chill stone fruit trees, reduce watering as they have lower water needs as they drop their leaves.

• As you’ll be harvesting persimmons now, you can also reduce their watering. Apply some dolomite and gypsum to the soil at 20g per square metre.

• Plant leafy coriander plants now. The cooler temperatures will stop them bolting to seed.

• Companion plant garlic with lettuce, parsnips and roses. Keep it way from beans, cabbage and strawberries. Companion plant cucumbers with basil, beans, broccoli, carrots, peas, parsnips, radish and lettuce, but keep away from potatoes.

Vegetables Plant beetroot, silver beet, broad beans, spring onions, peas, carrot, kohlrabi, lettuce, radish, turnip, capsicum, celery, endive, beans, garlic, leeks, onions, parsnip, peas, potatoes, sweet potato, tomato, broccoli, parsley, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, okra, zucchini.

Flowers Plant alyssum, marigold, petunia, calendula, cineraria, cornflower, dianthus, hollyhock, kale, larkspur, lobelia, pansy, phlox, Iceland poppy, primula, snapdragon, statice, stock, strawflower, sweet pea (seedling), viola, carnation, cyclamen, delphinium, forget-me-not, foxglove, gaillardia, linaria, polyanthus, portulaca, rudbeckia, salvia, cleome, sunflower, Swan River daisy, verbena, wallflower.

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• Elimbah-Caboolture Herb Club – May 4, 10am meeting at the Caboolture PCYC in Toovey Street, Caboolture. Call Ruth on 5496 7649 to find out more.

• Glasshouse Country Orchid Society – May 10, 7.30pm at the RSL Hall in Glass House Mountains. Come a little earlier if you have plants you want to show off. New members are always welcome, so don’t be shy.

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• Native Plants Sunshine Coast – May 13, 8am at Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Maleny for a walk led by Spencer Shaw, a local native plant expert. All welcome. For details contact Marie 5494 9187 or npscevents@gmail.com.

• Hibiscus Society, Sunshine Coast Branch – May 12, 9am to 12.30pm.

It’s the Annual Hibiscus Spectacular. Entry is gold coin donation.

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• Faunawatch – May 9, 8am at Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens, Tanawha. Walk, survey wildlife, and learn about Faunawatch. Phone Paul on 0422 429 594 for details on how to get involved.

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• Keep the air filter clean.

• Use only fresh fuel.

• Double check your fuel ratio.

• Never try and drop start your saw as this is very dangerous.

• To safely start a chainsaw always place the saw on the ground and place one foot on the handle to start.

• When starting your saw, put the choke on, prime approximately 4-5 times and pull until it fires. Turn the choke off and then continue to pull until it starts. This will avoid flooding the saw.

• Make sure that the saw is oiling the chain.

A good way of checking to see if the saw is oiling the chain is to place a piece of cardboard or newspaper under the saw and hold the saw above it. If there is a fine spray of oil on the cardboard or newspaper, then the saw is oiling the chain.

• Service your saw on a regular basis, always by a qualified technician. Servicing your saw on a regular basis will maximise the performance of your chainsaw.

If you are inexperienced in the use of a chainsaw, always seek some professional advice before you attempt to use your saw. Chainsaws are a dangerous tool if not operated or used safely or correctly.

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• Be aware of your surroundings. Be mindful of children, other people and pets around you.

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