subTropical Gardening – Issue 17

subTropical Gardening magazine

Issue 17, November 2009

This consumer magazine focuses on the warm climates of the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. The tag is ’local advice for local gardeners’.

Featured articles are:
-Tropical landscape grounded in natives
-Do Japanese gardens make sense in Australia?
-Onwards and upwards… climbers, twiners, creepers, vines, ramblers and scramblers
-Tropical cordylines
-A midsummer night’s garden
-Boundaries, borders & barriers… thorns, spikes & spines
-Favourite local plants
-Gardening for native grass finches in SE Queensland
-Soil Additives – charcoal/biochar and selenium
-Companion planting
-Vegies: chokos
-Fruit: custard apples
-Bushfood: warrigal greens
-Feeding chickens
-Gardening calendar for Nov/Dec/Jan
-Collectable plants – bromeliads, bulbous group, climbers, creepers & groundcovers, flowering trees, funky foliage, ginger group, orchids, palms, scented plants, succulents, tropical shrubs
-Book reviews
-Places to visit – in Mackay and Sunshine coast + Open Gardens
-Social gardeners – photos of gardeners and club listing
-Directory source guide + classifieds

subTropical Gardening was launched in 2005 and maintains its clear dominance in northern Australia for its focused articles on the specific climate and unique photography.  All contributors have suitable qualifications and all live in the climate zone that the magazine focuses on. This magazine provides a fresh approach to gardening publications and clearly unique in its focused clientele defined by climate and keen gardeners.

Target audience: consumers in warm climates
RRP: $8.95; 1yr subscription $35.80; 100 pages
Frequency: Quarterly – Feb, May, Aug, Nov.
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