Christine John, Euroa Garden Club member

Q: What’s your favourite thing about gardening in spring?

A: My favourite thing in my spring garden is seeing a new bulb popping through the ground or a new bud or flower bursting forth.

Every day brings a new delight.

Q: What exciting plans do you have for your own garden this spring?

A: My plan for spring is to walk each day around the garden and enjoy the spectacular colour.

Later I will dig up some bulbs and replant in another spot to spread the colours around.

Q: What’s the one gardening tip you think everyone should know?

A: My tip is to enjoy your garden.

After the hard work of weeding, fertilizing, mulching and watering, sit back and admire the colours, textures, birds and insects that will come.

Q: Who is your local gardening hero, and why?

A: Beryl Harris is my local hero.

She has a lovely, large garden and is always to give advice, and share her excess bulbs and plants grown from cuttings.

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Jim and Margaret Brook, Euroa Garden Club members

Q: What’s your favourite thing about gardening in spring?

A: We enjoy seeing the new growth of the deciduous trees and the flowers after a cold, dismal winter, and removing any old dead branches.

Q: What exciting plans do you have for your own garden this spring?

A: We love the variety of the camellias and colours that flower through the winter and early spring, and also the various bulbs coming out in flower.

Q: What’s the one gardening tip you think everyone should know?

A: To be doing something in your garden every week, to make your garden attractive all the year round, with pruning and weeding.

Q: Who is your local gardening hero, and why?

A: The late Helen Dunnachie, who was so knowledgeable and dedicated to gardening.

She was happy to pass on her knowledge to everybody.

She was a founding life member of the Euroa Garden Club.

Q: Anything else you would like to add?

A: We established our garden at Kennedy Street 13 years ago, as we had a large area and we wanted a park-like garden with mostly native plants and shrubs to attract the native birds.

We love our vegetable garden.