subTropical Gardening magazine
Issue 20, August 2010
Collector’s Edition – 5th Year Anniversary
This consumer magazine focuses on the climate gardening however is well suited to people living in cooler regions of Australia and overseas that have warm microclimates in their garden or grow plants indoors, in shadehouses or in glasshouses.
Featured articles are:
-Garden feature: the Retreat
-Colony of Bats – Tacca chantrieri, Tacca integrifolia, Tacca palmata, Tacca leontopetaloides
-Children’s Gardens
-Pelargoniums
-The Iris Family
-Contributor’s Garden
-Gardening in Sydney: You can’t grow that here
-Favourite fine-leafed plants
-Wildlife: building homes for habitat Part 3
-Organics – composting, Part 2
-Vegies: Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius)
-Fruit: starting with common fruits
-Bushfood: Midyim berry (Austromyrtys dulcis)
-Turf: wear on lawns
-Gardening calendar for Aug/Sept/Oct
-Collectable plants – bromeliads, climbers, creepers & groundcovers, curiosity plants, flowering trees, funky foliage, ginger group, orchids, palms, scented plants, succulents, tropical shrubs
-Book reviews
-Places to visit – Bunya Mountains and Spring Bluff Railway Station + 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 targeted at keen and serious gardeners for those who live in warm climates.
This ‘magazine’ is designed more like a reference journal that is collected and kept by gardeners.
Target audience: consumers in warm climates – Sydney north to Port Douglas and across to WA.
RRP: $8.95; 1yr subscription $35.80;
100 pages (8 pages of advertising) = 8% advertising
Frequency: Quarterly – Feb, May, Aug, Nov.
Editor: Paul Plant
Contributors: Claire Bickle, Noel Burdette, Graeme Byrne, Cynthia Carson, Harry Crane, Helen Curran, Joan Dillon, Marian Hammond, Arno King, Grant Larkin, Kristen Mathews, Paul Plant, John Sullivan, Bruce Tinworth, Anton Van der Shans.
Publisher: Subtropicalia Media P/L
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Web: www.stgmagazine.com.au
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