25-7-25. You know I love my numbers or numerals and how much I love patterns, so I couldn’t go past today’s date as a wonderful little pattern worth recognising. And while on that topic, can you believe that we are literally at the end of July 2025! The year seems to have accelerated with nitrous oxide speed, but in saying that, every day has the same number of hours and it’s what we do with those hours that matters.

Jane escapes to a tropical conservatory, Hannah visits a bird-friendly native garden, Tammy harvests ginger with a productive gardener, Josh explores a yard full of local species, Costa profiles the unusual Keighery grevillea and Jerry looks at growing epiphytes on trees.

Jerry looks at growing epiphytes on trees.

Costa profiles the unusual Keighery grevillea.