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3CR Gardening Show

On Sunday 13 April, the Gardening Show hosts will be broadcasting live from the Yarra Valley Plant Fair.

Tune in 7:30 - 9:15am Sundays on 855 on the AM dial, 3CR Digital or stream at 3cr.org.au

Sunday morning sleep-innerers can catch up on past episodes at 3cr.org.au/gardening or via a podcast app.

#3CR Community Radio
#gardening #communityradio #horticulture #nursery #plants #plantchat #3crradio #podcast #yarravalleyplantfair

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@Hellybootwader In the 1900s a horticulturist in Dublin, David Houston, ran 15 "Ladies' Gardening Schools" - partly for people with big estates, but also with the idea of giving farms a second string to their bow, and farm wives and daughter and mothers an income they could control. This production of native pond plants would be a great sideline for farmers
#farn #horticulture #gardening #dublin #ireland #IrelandHistory

Weeds - "We need to go and make sure you can't buy them anymore."

The ecological damage already caused by weeds that had 'escaped' household gardens was tiny compared to the potential threat posed by plants sold at gardening retailers.

"We've introduced so many plants into Australia now that, when you go for a walk in your local bush, one in eight of the plant species you see there have been introduced. At least three-quarters of weeds established in the Australian environment have come from escaped garden plants, according to a 2004 report by biosecurity strategist John Virtue."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-04-06/gar
#plants #flora #weeds #gardens #culture #BushDumping #dumping #horticulture #industry #markets #regulation #Bellingen #InvasiveSpecies #NSW