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Tom Smart We'd talk about potatoes and peas and the best way to beat the slugs. At Wyevale Garden Centre's club, members who are over sixty get These days, I understand how it can be difficult to convince many.
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They'd even ripped out most of the grass and dug down about a foot, removing the existing soil. But it wasn't until their yard caused a neighborhood sensation that they realized what they'd done. What plan? Both Tom and Anna are artists. Tom, a special effects technician, also works in wood, metal, plastic and bronze. Anna, an elementary school principal, does multimedia sculpture. But they knew there would never be a pen-and-ink plan for their yard.
It's kind of organic. We go out in a space and start laying hoses or using spray paint to see how it looks. But this time around, their gardening wasn't going to be all about looks. They made sure it had a better-than-solid foundation. Once they'd covered their front yard with 18 inches of fresh dirt, they got out the hoses to outline what would set the stage for their garden: a pathway.
Instead of hard edges and right angles, they designed "something fluid" to encircle the yard. Brick by brick, Tom cut turn-of-the-century pavers and fit them together to create an undulating, wave-like pattern. Then, they got out the hoses and started in on the raised beds.
Kitchen Garden: Professor Tom Calma and a passion for gardening
Anna wanted to plant in raised beds so she could "super amend" the soil. But it was also an aesthetic decision. They considered using different kinds of materials to form the beds -- interlocking bricks, stone slabs, wood. But they landed on fieldstones, which they ordered by the truckload. Anna carefully stacked the stones to make mortarless walls for the beds.
Though it has its share of flowers -- stalwarts such as liatris, daisies and coneflowers -- the real stars of the garden are the shrubs. Anna used evergreens -- dwarf blue globe spruce, juniper, weeping spruce, weeping hemlock -- to form the backdrop and added showier shrubs -- silver weeping willows, lilacs and dogwoods -- as accents.
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What a beautiful way to be engulfed. Anna, who does most of the planting, is quick to admit she's no expert. I can tell you what I do, but I don't know the official names," she said. But it's clear that she has a way with plants. It's even fine with degree winter weather, she adds. Don't over-water the Mexico native, because "its stems work off its reserves," says Nejman. Native to tropical Asian countries, the phalaenopsis orchid likes low light.
But think twice if you live in a dry climate, as the orchid has a better chance of thriving in humid areas. Hundreds of species of the large-leafed philodendron grow in the West Indies, Mexico, and Brazil. This plant prefers low light. One caveat: "They like to be on the dry side," says Nejman, so don't water more than once a week. Native to Madagascar, the succulent shrub doesn't like much water.
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Otherwise, it's not picky. Another plus: It produces lovely red blooms "year round," says Nejman. Two downsides, though: Its thorns and its sap, which can cause blisters and swelling. If you're more of a leave-it-and-forget-it type, anything in the cactus family will do, Fried says. Walker affectionately calls it "the king of the indestructible plants. Mother-in-law's tongue one of many sansevierias is tough to kill.
The leaves are typically tall, stiff, and vertical, earning it the other nickname "snake plant. This evergreen shrub, also known as an umbrella tree, can grow 15 feet outside. Like many plants, it can be mildly toxic. Place this beauty by a curtained window, protecting new leaves from extra sun. The sturdy cast-iron plant lives up to its name, surviving low light, poor-quality soil, spotty watering, and a wide range of temperatures.
The dark-leaved stunner likes to be left alone, so don't be too attentive, warns Nejman. Product Reviews. Type keyword s to search.
Today's Top Stories. Chinese Evergreen. Asparagus Fern. Fiddle Leaf Fig. Guiana Chestnut. My introduction to the Calmas was through Adrian Van Leest, of Campbell, a grower of family heritage tomatoes and a keen gardener. Heather Calma says that through Adrian, one year Tom grew a variety of potatoes called 'Heather' which had a purple skin. This year, however, their busy life meant Tom missed the potato planting season. The Chapman greenhouse is crowded with plants and horticultural products. There is a stool and fan for comfort when Tom experiments with his favourite weekend activity, raising plants with Marcotting, or air-layering, a specialty.
Tom finds growing capsicums in the greenhouse means he can use them as perennials, though they do not produce fruit in winter. This season he has bell capsicums and long capsicums, bush tomatoes, ginger, pots of chillies and Warrigal spinach. He also raises broccolini, a cross between broccoli and Chinese broccoli, a hybrid developed in Garlic and golden shallots harvest.
Heather says Tom grows unusual things sometimes that she doesn't want to eat. One edible, not often seen is Celtuce, an ancient Asian vegetable called "wosun" in China. It has a trunk like celery and leaves like lettuce and Tom purchased it off eBay. Among rows of Heather's dark foliaged plants in the front garden is Tom's potted Manzanillo olive tree. He salts the ripe black olives for 30 days, washes them in fresh water to reduce the salt, dry, then cover in olive oil with chilli, diced limes and homegrown purple hard neck garlic, which makes delicious snacks.
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Tom Calma with his manzanillo olive tree. On our visit Tom obligingly dug a root of horseradish, a heavy job as the ground was hard after two 37C days and no rain. He says most recipes for mashing horseradish are similar. He uses this link: simplyrecipes.