Colour up your garden in the cooler months
Most of us give up the ghost about now. The last rays of summer sunshine have just about fried the petals from your gorgeous blooms. The leaves will soon begin to fall from your trees and then winter will arrive and your garden will be bathed in a gorgeous shade of grey... or green from an overgrown lawn.
However ABC Gippsland gardening expert Nancy Morgan is a lot more upbeat about the transition from summer to winter because there are flowering plants that tolerate cooler conditions.
All you have to do is cast your thoughts further than Australian shores.
Think England, for example and cottage garden plants. Those poor little plants scream bloody murder in our warmer months so maybe they'll survive when our climate better resembles Blighty.
"If you plant snapdragons now you'll have colour autumn through to winter. If you put your pansies in coming into autumn you'll have colour all through winter going into spring. Primulas, the same," Nancy said.
