Dear Geeky, I went to a garden party at a friend’s place the other week and nudged an open bottle of wine off the table with my elbow, down, down,…

Dear Geeky, The backyard mozzies have been taking great pleasure sinking their bity bits into my house guests. By the time my guests slap their skin, the mozzies have done…

The plan was to sweep up some magnolia petals, add them to the compost, then mow the lawn. But kale sidetracked my day. I grow kale more for its foliage…

I have a word for it. Do you know how excited that made me? I went from an observation, to some questions, to an answer, all because of responses to…

I’m never going to get a job working on one of those TV gardening shows. For one, I’m more of a behind-the-scenes kinda girl. Then there’s my problem with makeovers….

You’ll have noticed that I haven’t posted any gardening geekiness for a while. I’d like to call it temporary yet benign neglect. Temporary, because by the very nature of this…

Gardening is a process of transformation. By clearing, planting and nurturing, we transform our landscapes. Perhaps from wild to tame, from formal to fluid, from ornamental to productive, or the…

I was crouching down weeding with my 5-year-old playing alongside me when I realised that I was geeking and gardening at the same time. “See this l-o-n-g root here,” I…

There’s nothing subtle about sunflowers. There they stand, taller than the garden fence, with vibrant yellow heads screaming summer and ‘look at me’. But as summer turns to autumn, their…

Autumn rain after a dry summer triggers an instant transformation of our surroundings. If you have a backyard, you don’t have to step too far to appreciate it. That’s the…

It’s winter here in the southern hemisphere. But it’s what I’d call a wimp’s winter, at least where I am, in a temperate zone. In Sydney, the temperature rarely goes…

The Geeky Gardener has turned one. Well, the blog’s anniversary was more than a month ago. Sorry. I feel like the busy parent who knew she had to organise a…