Tims Gardening Column
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What’s The Most Fragrant Rose? - Jun 21, 2025
Dear gardening friendsThis truck turned up full of dead sticks yesterday. Well that's what customers call them. Flemings grow most of the deciduous trees that are sold all around Australia. They deliver them bare rooted and that's why they look like dead sticks. When the truck driver opened the back door my staff groaned. The dr...
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It’s Time To Spray Your Lawn! - Jun 12, 2025
Dear gardening friendsWe've been busy potting up New Season Rose bushes. It's like wrestling with barbed wire, but we all get stuck in, and get the job done. We've just potted up 1500 plants using Tim's Best Potting mix. Tylor was like a potting machine yesterday, he doesn't even wear gloves, "I don't need them, I'm so tough". M...
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Warm Your Legs With An Onkaparinka? - Jun 5, 2025
Dear gardening friends I just had a customer drive from Willow tree to buy two bags of Tim's Best Potting mix and two bags of Tim's Cow manure. We had a lovely chat, I discovered Willow tree is an hour from everywhere. Well it's an hour from all the places I knew. It only has one shop, and it's actually not even a shop, it's a...
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Can An Indoor Plant Make You Happy? - May 30, 2025
Dear gardening friendsMark Frail rang me wanting to know if I wanted to sell his Luculias? This fragrant shrub has become a Collector plant because so few growers still grow it. Luculia fragrance is right up there with Daphnes. When you smell the fragrant flowers, you close your eyes and think of heavenly things. Luculia...
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Ive Never Eaten A Strawberry! - May 23, 2025
Dear gardening friendsAsir just came in wearing his Oodie. Hayden's just told me everyone owns an Oodie. I don't, but I think it might go great with my Crocs. Asir was wearing great sandals. He had a great smile too. He's just moved into a house in Broughton street, it's a rental so he can't grow things in the ground, but that d...