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Interviews:
Justin Tsatchenko
Director of Botanical Gardens, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Nic Naes, Marketing Manager
Topic: garden tools and axes
Fiskars Australia Pty Limited
3 8645 2431, Mobile +61 (0)409 793 246
www.fiskars.com
www.ilovefiskars.com
Mark Browning and Philip Johnson
Landscape Designers. Topic, Gardening in Marysville
Mark Browning:
Cycas Landscape Design
316 Waverely Road, Malvern 3145
Tel. 95724466
www.cyas.com.au
Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson Sustainable Landscape Systems
29 High Street Glen Iris 3146
Tel. 98869793
www.phillipjohnson.com.au
Liliums – from information in Gardening Australia Magazine July 2010
www.gardenexpress.com.au
Oriental Liliums – grown specifically for pot with shorter stems, 4 -5 flowers on each stem, very strong perfume.
La Hybrid Liliums – cross between Asiatic and L. longiflorium, upright large flowers
Asiatic Liliums – vibrant colours, a firm favourite in mixed beds or in pots
Other plants mentioned:
Kniphofia – red hot pokers, evergreen clumping perennial. Dwarf yellow, poker, frost tolerant.
Tree peonies (Paeonia suffruticosa) with huge flowers, love lime added to the soil in autumn and generous fertilizer in spring to flower well over summer and autumn






