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Blossoms in<br />
the Blood...<br />
From Trish Bull, Little Gem Nursery & Landscaping<br />
I w a s<br />
born in Ferntree<br />
Gully and grew up<br />
in Emerald. Nursery work was<br />
born in my blood.<br />
When I was five I would<br />
holiday at Kallista with my<br />
gran and grandpa and they ran<br />
a wholesale tree nursery and I<br />
watered the big trees in pots and<br />
helped with the weeding.<br />
Grandpa then started his own<br />
retail nursery at Montrose and<br />
Dad worked for him. I would go<br />
over on weekends and sell cut<br />
ROSES ALL<br />
THE WAY<br />
By Mark Davidson<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember, and roses<br />
blooms are bursting<br />
out everywhere.<br />
Wonderful to see them,<br />
and surprising how resilient<br />
they are. If you really want<br />
gorgeous blooms, delicious<br />
fragrance and plants that<br />
f l o w e r s<br />
that Mum and Dad grew. We sat<br />
on the edge of the road outside<br />
the nursery and had a lot of<br />
lovely, regular customers.<br />
Mum and Gran ran a florist<br />
business from home. Mum, Pat<br />
Lucas, started a retail nursery<br />
‘Mountain Dew’ where Mitre<br />
10 Garden Supplies now is in<br />
Emerald. I helped Mum after<br />
school and on weekends.<br />
I moved to Mansfield, married<br />
are incredibly tough and<br />
water wise, then do yourself a<br />
favour and plant some roses;<br />
lots of potted ones are about<br />
in garden centres.<br />
Of course, with roses come<br />
the aphids, drat them! They<br />
reproduce with astonishing<br />
speed, rivaling weeds, but there<br />
is an upside to the aphid plague<br />
and that’s the fun demolishing<br />
them. No need to reach for<br />
insecticides, when a good round<br />
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10 <strong>Signpost</strong> Community <strong>Magazine</strong> - <strong>Nov</strong>ember <strong>2009</strong><br />
and had two children. Here I<br />
had the pleasure of restoring an<br />
overgrown, old Edna Walling<br />
garden to its former glory. It<br />
was planted in the early 1920s<br />
and had lovely established trees,<br />
dry-stone walls and paths, many<br />
of which were covered with<br />
inches of composted leaves and<br />
suckering undergrowth.<br />
The garden was three acres<br />
and we opened it to the public<br />
and it was also open to the ABC<br />
garden scheme.<br />
I have had the pleasure of<br />
working with many nurseries<br />
and over 10 years ago moved to<br />
Gembrook and started my own<br />
wholesale nursery Little Gem<br />
Nursery & Landscaping. We<br />
now have combined landscaping<br />
with the nursery offering clients<br />
an affordable garden make-over<br />
with plants at wholesale prices.<br />
My daughter Caitlyn has been<br />
working in the business since<br />
of squishing with your fingers is<br />
all that’s needed. Greenish yellow<br />
fingers are very ‘in’ this year!<br />
You could use a mild, less<br />
toxic product like pyrethrum<br />
that kills only what it touches,<br />
and has no residual properties<br />
on the plants, but pyrethrum is<br />
toxic to bees, and we all need<br />
those. Without bees, there can<br />
be no food crops. So<br />
squish and enjoy!<br />
Soon there will be<br />
Breakfast all day on weekends.<br />
Live entertainment Friday & Saturday nights<br />
Karaoke every Thursday nights from 8pm<br />
Jazz, Blues and Folk Sundays<br />
Open:<br />
Mon - Wed 11.30am to 10pm.<br />
Thur 11.30am to 11.00pm.<br />
Friday 11.30am to 12.00am.<br />
Saturday 8.00am. to 1.00am.<br />
Sunday 10.00am to 10.00pm.<br />
I started it. She worked after<br />
school and on weekends like I<br />
used to. She now works fulltime.<br />
It was born in her blood too!<br />
We open to the public on the<br />
first Saturday of every month.<br />
My partner Jed works with us<br />
along with Rose, Michael and<br />
Tom my son. ♦<br />
Little Gem Nursery &<br />
Landscaping are located at<br />
40 Livio Drive, Gembrook.<br />
For more<br />
information call<br />
Trish on<br />
0417 113 772 or<br />
Caity on<br />
0428 113 772.<br />
katydids about too; big ugly<br />
green, arrogant insects that chew<br />
great lumps out of rose buds.<br />
They get the stomp method, as<br />
do snails. Maybe time hardens<br />
my resolve with these pests, but<br />
I refuse any use of insecticides<br />
in the garden, while I’m perfectly<br />
able to prowl about in the<br />
roses, squishing<br />
and stomping<br />
d e l i g h t e d l y.<br />
Besides, I need<br />
Coming up in <strong>Nov</strong>ember<br />
6th - Matt Alexander no cc<br />
13th - Friday 13th dress up<br />
party/karaoke-prizes<br />
21st - Jimi Hocking $8 cc<br />
27th - Sally Robbins<br />
We can cater for functions<br />
369-371 Belgrave-Gembrook Rd, Emerald<br />
www.emeraldgreenroom.com info@emeraldgreenroom.com<br />
A001062
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