I’m fortunate to travel to many spirited regional areas and country towns and it’s always such a pleasure to meet the locals who live and breathe life into the places they call home. From St Lawrence to Port Pirie, Kalamunda to Catherine, or Bermagui to Bungendore. I realise that’s starting to sound like the introduction to a Backroads episode, but my point is there are so many wonderful towns right across Australia and I want to add one to that list. This week’s Costa’s Corner is brought to you by the letter W for the town of Warren in western New South Wales where I was last weekend.

Tammy explores a visionary country garden in full bloom, Sophie shares shade plant tips, Jane visits a garden rich in horticultural history, Josh discovers a biodiverse verge, Jerry shows how to propagate ferns from spores and Hannah shares tips on rodent-proofing the garden.

Hannah has a few simple methods to keep rodents out of the garden and the chook house.

Jerry shows how to propagate ferns from spores.