Real World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
Real World Gardener
21 episodes
9 months ago
Bust out of your fantasy world and go gardening in the real world with horticulturalist, Marianne Cannon. Be inspired with one of the many feature interviews and regular segments with horticulture industry professionals and garden enthusiasts, including Design Elements, Plant of the Week, Plant Doctor, Spice it Up, The Good Earth, The Kitchen Garden, Tool Time and Vegetable Heroes. Real World Gardener extracts from the radio program broadcast on 2RRR 88.5fm in Sydney, Australia.
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Bust out of your fantasy world and go gardening in the real world with horticulturalist, Marianne Cannon. Be inspired with one of the many feature interviews and regular segments with horticulture industry professionals and garden enthusiasts, including Design Elements, Plant of the Week, Plant Doctor, Spice it Up, The Good Earth, The Kitchen Garden, Tool Time and Vegetable Heroes. Real World Gardener extracts from the radio program broadcast on 2RRR 88.5fm in Sydney, Australia.
Choosing the Freshest Flowers on Real World Gardener
Real World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
10 minutes 21 seconds
3 years ago
Choosing the Freshest Flowers on Real World Gardener
TALKING FLOWERS
Tips on Choosing the Freshest Flowers
Do you regularly buy a bunch of fresh flowers to brighten up your home?
Do you find that no matter which ones you buy, you just can't seem to get them to last past a few days, but friends regularly boast about how their flowers last for over a week?Sometimes I cringe when I see a bunch of flowers outside some supermarkets because I know what signs to look for that tell me whether or not they’re really fresh.But could you tell how fresh a bunch of flowers are when you see them for sale?
Some of the top tips are
Keep your flowers away from the fresh bowl of fruit.
The reason is because fruit, particularly ripe bananas give off ethylene which hastens the demise of your fresh flowers. If you think about it, placing a firm pear next to a banana in the fruit bowl, makes it soften up really quickly.Feel the stems to see if they’re fresh and not slimy.
Slimy stems stems means they've been sitting around for more than a few day. If you can't feel the stems that cast a close eye on the actual petals and ask yourself, " are the petals showing any signs of curling or browning at the edges,?" If the answer is 'yes' then move onto the next bunch.Avoid buying flowers from the roadside.
Roadside flowers have inhaled all those exhaust fumes and that's a speedy way to make them fade.
Don’t worry, Nadine Brown will tell us how lots more .I'm talking with Nadine Brown floral educator of www.theivyinstitute.com.auIf you like buying fresh flowers you should listen to the podcast.If you have any questions you can email us Realworldgardener@gmail.com or write in to 2rrr, PO Box 644 Gladesville NSW 1675.
Real World Gardener-Horticulture, Gardening, Learning to Grow
Bust out of your fantasy world and go gardening in the real world with horticulturalist, Marianne Cannon. Be inspired with one of the many feature interviews and regular segments with horticulture industry professionals and garden enthusiasts, including Design Elements, Plant of the Week, Plant Doctor, Spice it Up, The Good Earth, The Kitchen Garden, Tool Time and Vegetable Heroes. Real World Gardener extracts from the radio program broadcast on 2RRR 88.5fm in Sydney, Australia.
