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Helen YoungLifestyle Columnist

Spring is here, heralding a range of great garden shows and events.

Only reuse old garden mulch around hardy shrubs that aren’t susceptible to fungus, mildew and rust.

If you’re sick of paying through the nose for raspberries and blueberries, it could be time to grow your own.

Garden lovers and plant enthusiasts have more treats in store as the spring fair season rolls on this weekend.

Birds can be a pest in your vegie patch, up-ending just-planted seedlings. How do you stop them?

Spring garden shows are bursting with colour and fragrance from daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and other bulbs.

Supermarket tomatoes are bland. Here is a simple trick to fire up their flavour.

Take yourself for a picnic in the Illawarra Grevillea Park and appreciate native plants in a natural setting.

My avocado is growing, but will it ever fruit?

Neighbours have been known to come to blows over the size of their huge Leyland cypresses.