Garden Angels

Garden Angels,
Help please! We have no garden and what lawn we have is full of bindies.We are a family of six.One of our daughters was born with blounts disease and has had three surgerys so far.At the moment has an external brace.We live in mackay and have to travel alot to see her doctors at the royal childrens hospital in brisbane.Would love to make a beautiful garden for our little angels.

ARGUE ARGUE, my wife and I have a completely blank canvas on 1500 sq house and block. We want the pool and stuff but we cannot decide what and or who to do it. Help us through this please. Love some inspiration regards Neil

E-mailing you from the South Coast of NSW in the hope that you might be able to help me with your expertise. Have a small rear courtyard which consists of some very weedy looking grass, a row of sterling trees accross the back fence plus a garden shed. My aim is to remove the grass & replace with some garden beds, high raised vegy garden, steeping stones, water centre piece & a slat wall to hide the shed. I would love to create a little haven for my beautiful husband who has an incurable illness, for him to be able to sit, relax & just enjoy as he no longer has the capacity to work the garden. Thank you.

Been trying to log in / register so I can leave a comment but having difficulty as each time I press onto log in / register cersor just goes back to the top of page!

Hi Angels, I need help planning my garden. I have two little dogs who love to sun themselves by sitting in the garden on top of any plants that may be there. I only have a small area as I life in a duplex. I would like somewhere for them to enjoy the outdoors without destroying the plants. I would also like to have a small veggie patch and somewhere I could sit and enjoy my garden. I don't know enough about plants to plant them in the right spot and what would do well. Its all a bit higgledy piggledy at the moment. Could you please help. Thank you. regards Diana

Hello Angels, I have a brand new beautiful home but it looks like a construction site from the outside as we have an open canvas for our backyard. The house is stunning but I need ideas for the yard! I would love a garden make over from someone who knows what they are doing, as my husband and I have no idea... We have two children and I would like to have a yard that entices them to play outdoors, especially with the warmer weather coming our way. The backyard has lots of potential however it is very overwhelming when you haven't got much experience. Please can you help me...

G'Day Angels, I live on a right of way with about 10 other homes. The right of way is where all the local children Play. In the middle of the right of way is a nature strip that all the neighbours try to maintain. Last weekend we began to clear an overgrown section and uncovered an old in ground fish pond. We have been told by one of the senior neighbours that it used to have gold fish in it. We would like to bring back the pond and the garden area surrounding it so the kids can have a play area. Is this something you guys would be interested in making over? Cheers Luke

HI, i think u guys do a very good job. I see you helping others all the time so i could not stop myself from writing to you. i was diagnosed with cancer last year and it has been a very though year.Since i am a stay home mom i spend my time usually in the house. i tried and renovated my indoors on my own but i have no energy to do the outdoors and our backyard is a sad looking piece of land. Since my lymph nodes were removed after my surgery i have less movement in one hand and i am unable to do gardening. please could you help me put up an easy to maintain garden???

come and visit/help our garden ..... your all invited

Hi Jamie, Scott, Jodie, & Nigel,

We are entering this subsription due for a house and garden makeover as we are in a situatioon where we are having financail hardship.

A little about us, we live up North of Brisbane, a place called Narangba, we bought this house for renovatios and saw a lot of potential, we have lived here for 7 years, and of course have a mortgage, My husband Ian has worked since he was 16, now he is 68 years old, and wants to retire, and I'm on a disibiltiy Pension, of which I can't work any more, he has used nearly all his Super for Renovations, and does not have much left.

We want to sell our home so we can get out of dept, so Ian can retire, and we don't have the money to finish off our Renovation's, we have a $261,000 Mortgage and paying off just over $2,056 per month, we also have plans to bring my Mum and step Dad over from W.A as no one has the time or place to look after them, so I offered to take on the respondibilty to take care of my Mother and Step Dad, they will be coming over to QLD in June, if only we had the money to do up our home and sell it, but we don't, My husband and I would love to hear from you and would be so much appreciated if you could help us out.

Thank you for taking the time to Read my email.

and looking forward to your reply soon.

Yours Sinserely

Ian and Cecile Norris.

We are planning a wedding and looking at the possibility of having the ceremony at home, which we would love- just one problem - the garden! It is a large garden and on a slope so when it rains the mud just washes down. We have tried some ideas but all have failed in making the garden look anything like attractive. We live in a beautiful part of the state and it would be a shame not to consider getting married at home. It would be fantastic just to have a design to follow as we are both novices when it comes to gardening. Just organising enough for the ceremony would be enough for now- we can work on the rest later. Any suggestions on this would be really appreciated and I can send photos. Thanks

Hey Garden Angels! :) My name is Lauren Brown, I live in Adelaide I'm only 13 years old and i'd love to surprise my parents with a garden makeover. They have been working on it for quite awhile and it seems to be getting nowhere we need some creative and fresh ideas coming in so I'm here to wonder if you girls could help me out! I'm hoping to have a party for my up coming birthday but I'm a little ashamed of our garden right now. Every time we get a job done another pops up. It would mean so much to them if you could come and so much to me because it would put such a big smile on my parents faces and defiantly help out a lot with the stress. cheers.

wanting to sell my mum's home on the Muray River and move her down to Melbourne. House has been for sale for 6 months without an offer. It's a little tired like me ... any shows interested in doing some renovating?

Hi there Our names are Scott and Sharon Kneen and we’ve recently purchased a small 60 place child care centre, which desperately needs a playground makeover. Thankfully, it is a beautiful, natural playground, however it is a little bit “too natural” and needs some work. As this is our first centre we are on a very tight budget, but we desperately want to improve this playground for the gorgeous children in our centre. Is there any chance you would do a "natural playground makeover" on your show? We are in Karana Downs in Queensland, not too far from Ipswich. Thanks heaps Scott and Sharon

I just wanted you to know that Melissa King on your show has a twin on this current series of The Farmer Wants a Wife. Melia the Wine maker from Western Australia. Her mannerisms are so similar...even there mouths are very similar when they talk. I just thought it was interesting. I thought it was the same [person to be honest when I saw the add for Garden Angels the other day. Jenny Martin from the Gold Coast.,

Dear Jason
I am writing to you in a state of desperation and in need of some advice. We have a 35m Norfolk Pine Tree in our back yard. It is the most beautiful tree which is home to many native birds. It provides our garden with shade for most of the day, which makes it hard to grow plants, however, we have put pine bark mulch under the canopy and it provides a fantastic play area for our two small children who have all their play equipment under it and can play year round. Even in the heat of the day it is still cool enough for the kids to play outside, and their favourite time is when it is raining they play under the tree and don’t get wet. The tree has become a pivotal part of our life with fairy lights decorating it at Christmas and being able to host many children’s parties in the shade.

Early November I noticed the tip of the tree has turned brown and over the following weeks the branches below the tip have been dying rapidly. I have had an arborist come out and he has confirmed the worse case scenario. Our beautiful tree has Botryosphaeria – trunk canker disease, as you are probably aware there is little we can do to save our tree. The arborist has said it will be a rapid decline of the tree and we need to look at removal fairly quickly. Initial quotes have come in around the $10 000 mark, which is going to cripple us over the Christmas period. However worse than the financial situation, we are not plant savvy and will shortly be left with a baron garden with no shade as we enter the hottest months. I have also read on the net that this disease can in some cases damage the surrounding soil.

We really want to replant shade tree / trees in the area but don’t know where to start, or what trees would be most suitable. We have no idea about garden design, our yard is unusually large on 3 levels and could be a fantastic space but with out our tree we are at a loss – and totally depressed.

If you could provide any support, guidance or advice we would be eternally grateful.

Kindest Regards
Trudy

Hi my name is Staci and im from Wollongong NSW. I am writing to you as a gesture to one of the most lovely ladies I have ever and will ever meet. I am not sure if you do these kinds of things but thought it was worth a try. Where to begin with this lady......Her name is Karen she is 50+ years old and is having a real rough time of late. Me and my partner met her 13 years ago as she was his Yr 12 HSC teacher at Wollongong TAFE . She helped him through as he struggled with reading and she noticed signs of dislexia. She took him under her wing as she has done with hundreds of other kids and he got through TAFE and she encouraged him and helped him through 4 years of Uni, he is now working for the Navy. She had fostered many children a couple of them permanently, along with her husband Richard and also cared for his elderly mother Gladys. She works tirelessly with struggling children and even invited them into her home for out of school help. She taught me at TAFE aswell as many of my friends and is ALWAYS willing to help. Long story short- she is incredibly generous. A few years back her Husband( who was her childhood sweetheart) got ill- and was eventually diagnosed with Parkinsons and after a Long, painful, fight he died in March last year. She cared for him right up until it became absolutely impossible and he bacame a danger. She was heartbroken but put on a brave face and still spent her mourning helping others with whatever they needed. Quick after her husbands death she lost her father aswell. She was still caring for her 90+ mother in law up until recently when her sister in law took her and put her in a nursing home 3 hours away out of spite and want for financial control of gladys. She is completely crushed as this year she will celebrate chrissy without her husband father and mother in law. Her mother is now poorly and she is spending all her time caring for her. She seems to be getting quite ill herself but is still trying to care for others. She is struggling to keep her house and garden in order and I really would like to help. She does sooo much for others i would love to be able to repay her in some small way. I know reading this she may not seem a likely candidate but words fail to describe precisely how wonderful of a woman she is and how much she deserves something good to happen to her. Her home is full of wacky wonderful things from years and years of collecting. I can recall may OLD signs from shops, 50's advertisements, paintings, war artifacts and collectibles, old memorabilia it really is something to be seen. You could spend a good few hours looking at all the history collected there. We discussed all the things we could do. Holiday, money, pamper, but none of those things are fitting for her. She is too selfless to accept things like that. However someone to come and revamp her garden and freshen her house while still keeping all the important memories of Richard and her dad and their long colourful life together I thought would be welcomed. i hope i have not rambled on too much but its so hard to convey how much i really think she deserved this. Thankyou and I hope to hear from you. Regards Staci Talbot

Does anyone remember where the herb/plant ladder can be purchased from? It was featured on one of the earlier shows.

Are there plans for another season? Keep the veggies coming through the seasons ladies. Please!

Simple and refreshing...keep it coming !

oh my god, what a load of .... how about some substance, sex doesn't sell gardening, what a load of absolute ...!
Robert Prince

II think u three girls are doing a wonderful job.Keep it up.From Corine. My email address is cfelsinger@aapt.net.au

Love the new show girls - thankyou