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“I became interested in gardening through my father at about age 7. He built me a little rock corner in his fernery. My favourite gardening tool is a pair of garden snips. I have about 20 pairs of them – in the hay shed, in the garden. They’re finer, for snipping cuttings, opening bags of seeds, dead heading plants. I’m not a horticulturalist, I’m not a landscaper, but I’m a gardener.” Tracee, The Dirty Gardener Nursery, Woodville NSW

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“This is not the easiest place to grow things, and this is the maddest plant I’ve ever come across in my life. It’s in a pot and grows like topsy.” Mitty, NSW

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“I prepared this beautiful native bouquet from my garden - wattle, grevillea, pittosporum and I don’t know what this one is - to sell at our community markets” Robyn, Alison NSW

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“Years ago my husband was given the seed for this Champagne Watermelon. We lost them but they’ve recently come back in the garden. We were told that they were especially grown for the Australian market because of their colouring – green and gold.” Joyce, Dungog NSW

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“I like to have a colourful show in my front garden for the people who work across the road at the hospital to enjoy – the ambulance people, the doctors and nurses, the kitchen staff and Meals on Wheels volunteers.” Leanne, Dungog NSW

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“I designed this adjustable frame solar installation. I haven’t seen one anywhere else. It squeaks and squawks when it moves, but it moves. It supplies me with adequate power, you need to be diligent about power usage of course. It makes you feel good about the energy you use for the computer or cooking by capturing all you can”  Ken, Wangat NSW

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“I don’t know what this tree is called, but it is shady and does have a lovely shape. We have it trimmed every so often and have to pull out the wild passionfruit vine that grows through it. It has a beautiful little bright pink flower.” Carol, Dungog NSW

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“I had this covered garden built fifteen years ago. I have twenty different varieties of fruit trees plus vegetables growing here which produce seasonally. I can see changes with global warming from warm temperate to subtropical conditions. I was happy to open my garden to people today as I have always learned so much from other people’s gardens.” Jill, Bendolba NSW

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“I love to watch the birds, the chickens, and ducks, and our goose in the garden from our sunroom where it’s comfortable, sunny and there are no flies!” Anne B, Brookfield NSW

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“This fire pit area is where we have a drink and relax after a weekend’s worth of work in the garden pruning, weeding, mowing, cutting firewood and other jobs” Mark, Kenthurst NSW

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“I sit here in my Bali Hut and have my coffee and pretend I’m in Bali!” Lorraine, Kenthurst NSW

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“I based the outline of this sculpture in my garden, on the template of an 1845 dress from a local museum collection. I attached pieces of tumbled coal that I had collected at Mereweather Beach to the metal sheet shape. It’s called “Double Welt” referring to the double historical meaning of “welt” - the results of the lashings of the convicts in the early colony and the stitching term for a type of seam” Catherine, with ‘Whitney’, East Maitland NSW

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“My favourite job in the garden is hosing my bromeliads. My grandmother had a big variety of bromeliads and she watered them every afternoon. I guess that’s why I love them” Andrea, Main Creek NSW

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“In last November’s floods the water came up to 20cm below the top of the levee bank, which we’d sandbagged. Then 5-7 inches of rain filled up within the levee bank around the house, which we were able to pump out, but it still flooded the septic! And killed the new fruit trees. We chucked everything into bags and onto a truck and took it all, and the dogs, to the neighbours during the peak of the flood. Still, we had it easy compared to a lot of people.” Rawson, Forbes NSW

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“The big trees on the flood levee bank create a lovely space where we’ve had lots of parties, a 21st, a 50th, a wedding. It’s a cosy space for entertaining. ”Kerry, Forbes NSW

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“After retiring as an ABC weather presenter I began pursuing a career change as a small scale hobby farmer in Nooroo, near Dungog. As well as growing garlic and proteas on a commercial scale my partner Bridget and I are producing “Nooroo Natural” raw honey, creamed honey and honeycomb. Our farm of 119 acres has committed 100 acres to wildlife conservancy. This will work to protect the native animals and plants by rewilding the areas of natural forest” Graham, Nooroo NSW

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“There are several challenges to gardening here. The land is a gravelly slope, there is no soil in the back garden, it’s rock! Plus there are rabbits, hares, wallabies and bandicoots! I don’t have a plan for my garden, I just grow a lot of different things, here and there, all mixed up, that’s the way I like it. During the COVID lockdown my project was planting 55 rainforest trees, mostly local varieties.” Lisa, Sugarloaf NSW