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Phaedra Gardeness
Australia
Приєднався 1 тра 2020
Growing Food, Flowers and Teaching Backyard Floristry.
We are Phaedra and Moroni, and we make a living off gardening, flowers, and plants! This is the story of our life on our farm in Victoria Australia. Subscribe and Enjoy!
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You can buy our merchandise here ➡️ phaedragardenessshop.com.au
Our Climate:
In Australia we are right on the edge of Mild Temperate (Zone 6) and Cool Temperate (Zone 7). In the USA this is close to zone 8B. Our lowest temperature in Winter is around -5 degrees Celsius, our top temperature in Summer reaches up to 42 degrees Celsius at least a couple of times each Summer.
We are Phaedra and Moroni, and we make a living off gardening, flowers, and plants! This is the story of our life on our farm in Victoria Australia. Subscribe and Enjoy!
Merch:
You can buy our merchandise here ➡️ phaedragardenessshop.com.au
Our Climate:
In Australia we are right on the edge of Mild Temperate (Zone 6) and Cool Temperate (Zone 7). In the USA this is close to zone 8B. Our lowest temperature in Winter is around -5 degrees Celsius, our top temperature in Summer reaches up to 42 degrees Celsius at least a couple of times each Summer.
Gardening in Australian Summer is tricky: Feverfew cuttings and New Trellis
Another week on the farm and another week in the unrelenting Australian Summer Heat! Today I'll show you how to take cuttings of feverfew or matricaria so you can grow these plants with a much faster turnaround between successions. I also remove an old trellis and turn it into two new trellises for the vegetables to grow up.
Feverfew \ Matricaria Cuttings Videos (in depth):
ua-cam.com/video/286mMZ6cJZA/v-deo.html (2025)
ua-cam.com/video/BJZrf97eh5Y/v-deo.htmlsi=nll2lNMXOzvSnweH (2023)
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- Kogan: www.kogan.com/au/me/NobleFlowers/
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How to take cuttings of matricaria? How to take cuttings of Feverfew? Gardening in Australia. Gardening in the heat of Summer. How to build a garden trellis? Using cattle panel for a trellis.
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Location: Near Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
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Feverfew \ Matricaria Cuttings Videos (in depth):
ua-cam.com/video/286mMZ6cJZA/v-deo.html (2025)
ua-cam.com/video/BJZrf97eh5Y/v-deo.htmlsi=nll2lNMXOzvSnweH (2023)
CALENDARS AND TEES
Merch Shop: phaedragardenessshop.com.au
Subscribe here!
www.youtube.com/@phaedragardeness?sub_confirmation=1
Here are some different ways to support us!
🌟 Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/nobleflowers
🌟Join my Patreon! patreon.com/PhaedraGardeness
A more personal diary of sorts. $6 memberships :)
🌟🛒 Use our affiliate links to make your purchases on the following sites: Our favourite Tools & Equipment:
- Kogan: www.kogan.com/au/me/NobleFlowers/
(I'll add more as we grow)
If you purchase via affiliate links I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thankyou so much if you use those links!!
All information is relevant at the time of Publishing this video. Details may change over time. Please contact me if you would like to note changes.
How to take cuttings of matricaria? How to take cuttings of Feverfew? Gardening in Australia. Gardening in the heat of Summer. How to build a garden trellis? Using cattle panel for a trellis.
📇 CONTACTS
Location: Near Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
EMAIL: hello@phaedragardeness.com.au
WEBSITE: www.nobleflowers.com.au
Instagram: Phaedra Gardeness
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Propagate Feverfew Matricaria from Cuttings for Fast Crop Rotation
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Fast crop turnover is essential when growing flowers. More flowers faster, means more product to work with or sell. Feverfew and Matricaria take a long time to second flush. It's faster to take cuttings, pull out the old plants, propagate new plants and allow those new plants to flower. If you work on your timing you can succession plant for continuous blooms through the season. For us, the tim...
Gardening + Photographer = ! How I do it - Australia Gardening and Photography.
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Gardening Flowers and Veg in the Heat of Australian Summer. Gentle Garden ASMR
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Looking after all of the flowers and vegetables in the edible garden in the middle of summer in Australia really takes it out of you! The sun is hot, the ground is hard and the flies are relentlessly annoying. Ive left lots of gardening sounds in this video for a gentle gardening ASMR, alongside some gentle music. CALENDARS AND TEES Merch Shop: phaedragardenessshop.com.au Subscribe here! www.yo...
Early Morning Gardening in Australia, Moving Fruit Trees and a Wreath made from Birch
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How to fill a deep garden bed or planter to save money on soil! Hugelkultur.
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The cheat way to fill deep garden beds for vegetables and flowers. This method is referred to as Hugekultur. This will save you money as you won't need to buy as much soil, compost, and manure right away in their first season. At the end of the season when the beds have settled down you can top them up with more soil - breaking up the expense over 12 months rather than right away. We have used ...
The Dream Changed. Garden, florist business, health, flower farming chat. Australian Gardener
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I sit down and talk about how things are going at the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025. CALENDARS AND TEES Merch Shop: phaedragardenessshop.com.au Subscribe here! www.youtube.com/@phaedragardeness?sub_confirmation=1 Here are some different ways to support us! 🌟 Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/nobleflowers 🌟Join my Patreon! patreon.com/PhaedraGardeness A more personal diary of sorts. $6 m...
Tour of our Flower and Vegetable Farm in Summer| gardening in Australia
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It is Summer here in Australia on the farm and it's time to take you on a tour to look at the plants and hear about the future plans for this flower farm / vegetable growing farm! CALENDARS AND TEES Merch Shop: phaedragardenessshop.com.au Here are some different ways to support us! 🌟 Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/nobleflowers 🌟Join my Patreon! patreon.com/PhaedraGardeness A more persona...
5 year recap; building a flower farm from scratch. Gardening in Australia
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We have spent the past five years building a flower farm in Australia. We started with only land and our own 4 hands. It was tough, and we worked hours and hours every day for most of those five years. We sold hundreds and hundreds of flower bouquets, grew thousands of cut flowers, learnt how to run a florist shop, built a beautiful studio space, had many ups and downs along the way. Join us as...
How to Spiral Stems Flower Arranging Technique - Strauss.
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The Garden To Do List. Australia Gardening in Summer.
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Getting to all those little garden tasks that I've been putting off for months! 2024 CALENDARS AND TEES Merch Shop: phaedragardenessshop.com.au Subscribe here! www.youtube.com/@phaedragardeness?sub_confirmation=1 Here are some different ways to support us! 🌟 Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/nobleflowers 🌟Join my Patreon! patreon.com/PhaedraGardeness A more personal diary of sorts. $6 membe...
Everything You Need to Know about Growing Campanula Canterbury Bells Flowers
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Collecting Ranunculus Seed to Grow More Flowers
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Make Wedding Flowers with me | Australian Florist | Bouquet & Arbour. Phaedra Gardeness
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How to store row covers and bird net for the garden.
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This weeks garden tasks on the Australian Vegetable and Flower Farm. Huge dried flower wreath!
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Lilac grove in Australia and plan for the vege and flower garden.
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Playing with Fire - Controlled Burning our Paddocks for Summer Fire Season
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It's the rootstock from your passion fruit!
May I say, I'm not sure about the mic position.
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I did my Feverfew cuttings and planted them today - THANK YOU for inspiring me!
Yayyyy! That’s awesome!!
Love the music in your videos, can you share the titles? Autum is nearly here, hate the constant heat and humidity ,where I live, myself . Thanks for entertaining videos 🙏💚🌿
Thankyou! The music is part of the royalty free library in UA-cam. If I think of it next time I’ll pop the titles in! The humidity is awful 😞, I’m hanging out for Autumn too
@@phaedragardenessthank you 🙏
Hi there, i love your videos! 😊❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Hello and Thankyou!
Thank you so much for this video 🎉.
You are welcome!
Question my friend - I have a half of a raised bed of this - the other half is empty - can i take cuttings and just put them in the soil in the other half so I can bypass potting them up?
Hi Tina! Great question. Yes you can! However, if it is really hot weather it’s best to pot them. But you could also shade the bed where you’ve planted them and keep it moist for a week or so. It’s just easier to pot them in the heat. In cooler weather we plant the cuttings straight into the beds!
@@phaedragardeness Hey Phaedra - thanks for the quick response - we are just going into Spring here in a few weeks and the temps are from 55-70 so I thought it would be a good time to try it!! YAY!! Thanks again and have a good day!! :)
Oh go for it the !!!
Look at you with 7k subs, woo hoo! P.s. my first video is up!!
Yayyyy! I know I saw it!!! I’ve already started watching and gees what a story so far. You’ve done an amazing job. I should get to finish it tomorrow!!
What the reason they’re no longer available here?
Not sure but my seed was originally from Johnnys Seed in USA (and now it’s very expensive to pay for certificate to import seeds). Apparently there was another seed seller here with them that doesn’t have them now. May have just been a variety not grown in Australia 🤷🏼♀️
@@phaedragardeness If. no one sells them there - could you package and sell them online in Australia for addl income once you have plenty of seed? I'm sure other growers there would like to get their hands on some as well! :)
Yes that’s what I’m planning !!!
I just went out and ripped out three cosmos plants after watching this video! I've been wondering what was wrong with them! Thanks for the info. This year has been a little testy for our poor plants as well! Thank goodness I have other healthy cosmos in another part of the garden!
Oh no!!! I’m glad this helped you realise though! And I’m glad you have more planted. All the best 🌸
I’m a new subscriber and I’m binge watching all your videos. I love all of them👍
Hello!! Welcome! And thankyou!!!
Shiatsu and Bowen therapy are both brilliant. I highly recommend them 👍💖
I love them both!!
Love your channel Phaedra👍💖
Aww thankyou 🤍
Love your channel Phaedra👍💖
Thankyou!!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden💖
You’re welcome, I love sharing it!
Why don’t my lilacs look like that?! Yours are so beautiful💕
There are different varieties and it also may depend on your climate. They like cold winters! You could check for pest or disease too if something really looks wrong?
@ I’m in the Southern Tablelands of NSW. Your climate sounds similar - cold wet winter with occasional snow, short hot summer. I can’t grow a lemon here, they don’t survive the winter.
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So glad you like it! 😊
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Thankyou again :)
My house is full of all kind of spiders , a sign of a good environment. That’s part of nature Moroni should participate in the videos more, he can be funny!!
Hello!! I think that too, the house is healthy if it’s go spiders… the kids think the house is terrifying though haha. Moroni is funny! He doesn’t love the spotlight though. He will pop in from time to time though :)
Hi, thank you so much for the video! I never thought of collecting seeds from my ranunculus. How do you get the corms to grow bigger? It seems like mine are kinda sulking and refusing to grow much larger.
Nice soil really helps the corms and they also need time. They should multiply each season for you. Some varieties have smaller corms also.
What's about the paper size which you use in this video?
It’s 50cm x 70cm :)
Hi Phaedra, I'm in NSW and I grow the same variety of Matricaria I think it's called Tetra White, and the seeds I bought from Australia but not sure where, possibly Jardin de Fleur who is now closed. But yes it is such a cute fluffy variety!
Hello!! It is Tetra White!! As far as I know it’s no longer available as seed in Australia. It’s sooo pretty isn’t it!!
Hi 😊 How did you get seeds into Australia via Johnny’s seeds? Every time I try to order from the US, they’re confiscated by bio security 😕
Hello! I got the johnnys seeds a few years ago before the new rules came into play. You can still try but you have to pay for a Phytosanitary Certificate which is around $300! I’m not really that keen to pay for that!
@ Australia has had bio security laws on seed imports for decades though…
So pretty, I never knew how!
I hope it helps you make some really nice bouquets!
I love how you mix your garden with photography!! Some gardens can be very photogenic!! But heads up!! Adelaide farted!! Sending you a two week heat wave coming your way!! Your welcome!! LOL!!
Oh my gosh I just looked at the weather forecast.. NOOOOOOOOOOO. it's going to be almost 40 all week! Thanks for the heads up... I'll start prepping the plants :( :(
Have you considered being a Wwoof host? Food and shelter in return for 5 hrs a day work....could get that fence done. ...
I don’t think it’s for us. We have a small house, only 1 bathroom for starters. We do know people who do it though and they had heaps of work done!
I love my Pink Show I got from you in my mystery box, she’s quite prolific. All 10 have now flowered, they’re so beautiful 😍
So glad to hear!!! Pink Show is such a good one 🩷
@ Nayelle, Avalanche, African Peach, African Sunrise, Carlos Watermelon (bud opening 🥰), Drachenburg, First Prize, Salmon Joy, Sahara all stunning thank you so much for my new obsession 💖
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I'm growing unicorn floret zinnias. Flowers are smaller but absolutely love the colours
ASMR and gardening in Australia where I live? This has to be the most perfect UA-cam video for me that I’ve ever encountered!!
Awwww thankyou! That’s awesome!
Like the others I would love to learn how to take good flower photos. Hope your tomatoes are doing better than mine just not ripening for some reason in lots of different areas so can’t just be the sun ave to re string a few but will have to wait till the bees have gone to bed tonight.and my tomatoes and other veggies are all netted. I sewed two nets together put in long stakes and covered them that way.
I know a lot of people in the same boat with the tomatoes. Wonder what the issue is?
If you decide the carrots seeds are no good, find a good spot out of the garden and sprinkle them about, if they grow great, keep the seeds, if not, no loss 😃
Great idea! It was a bulk pack too so it’s a lot of seeds!!
Would love you to do a photography course, I'm awful at pics 😂
Thanks for letting me know! I think I could help everyone take better photos!
What a treat to get out to the garden, the focused shots are delightful! The carrots , the little yellow loofa flower all of it . Your gardens are beautiful.My grandson loves the cinnamon basil. 😢I’ve started lisianthis and eucalyptus thus far. My outdoor temps were -34 degrees below zero. I’m in the thick of winter but my day length are increasing. I grow in a long day area . Northern zone. Love the tour all is beautiful! My veggie seed collection is exceeding my flowers. Still will do both! Love your videos!🫐🌿☀️💦
Oh wow that’s cold 🥶. So exciting you are getting close to Spring now!! We have entered survival mode here with the heat - Feb is the worst month of the year 🥵
You're doing a great job with your planning my friend!! And love your photography! I'm both as well (flower farmer/professional photographer), too funny we have so much in common!
Thankyou! And that’s so cool! It’s a good combo isn’t it 🤍
@@phaedragardeness It really is - I use to shoot all the time (book cover photography) before the flower farm but now not as much since I'm so busy. I still have lots of my work with my agency so still selling covers which is a nice secondary income revenue!
It's all so pretty - just the inspo I needed to get out in my garden this morning 🥰 I am suffering from a lack of motivation, "summer" this year has been absolute rubbish in my area of NZ, a continuous weekly cycle of cold snap - gradually warm up to the mid 20s - cold snap ....... and so grey day after day, everything is stunted (except for the weeds of course). The upside is that we have actually had some good rains which, coming off near drought last 2 years is really nice and personally I do better in cooler temps but my summer garden is not at all happy.
Oh no!! Plants really don’t like temp fluctuations like that 😭. I hope it levels out for you soon.
Love your videos!! Your photos are amazing. I can feel what you do in the garden too. Thank you😊💚
Awww thankyou, that’s lovely! 💚
Yes I would love the photograph flowers plz
Ok Thankyou!!
Big fat bees in luffa flowers is a very cool sight.
So cute!!
Hi Phaedra, your excitement for your floret zinnias is infectious, I can't wait to see how they flower for you. I thought Zinnias hate being transplanted so you are going to have a very successful crop. I also, would be interested in your photography course. I think most flower gardeners are experiencing slower than usual crops this year, don't let that get you down. What you have achieved is amazing. Now, just focus on your fencing, whether it is the temporary small or the big picture project and keep those nasty rabbits off your zinnias! You are so inspirational, keep going! xx
I was wondering if I should put a temp one up again. The rabbits had worked out how to get in and the wallabies were jumping it :(
Yes Phaedra, I am interested in the photography course as well!
Thankyou, I’ll try and get something put together as soon as I can.
Hi Phaedra I love your vlogs and would love to learn how to photograph flowers x
Thankyou, I’ll start working on it!
We have a few acres in Australia and we have had about 10 days over 40 degrees in January. We have fruit and vegetables and try to use trees to shelter the things that cannot handle our afternoon sun.
Your place sounds so nice!!!! This is my plan for the field garden this next season- adding in shade. It’s just too open and hot out there!
When do you harvest your sweet potato. I have White (prolific grower), and Orange.
Hello, the leaves die off, or go yellow at least. You can also gently dig down to have a feel how big the tubers are if you want to try harvesting earlier.
@phaedragardeness Truly, but my sweet potatoes never lose their leaves, and it is very rare I see a yellow leaf.
love your garden. would love to see your ketchup video.
Thankyou! Here is the link to the Ketchup video! ua-cam.com/video/C0V9IlUfoj0/v-deo.htmlsi=YGOOYoLtWP1giwxl
Thanks for sharing! Agree that gardening in Summer needs to be done early morning and or late afternoon! Way too hot! If during the day, setting up sprinklers for mist and or walking through them helps! I don't believe (could be wrong!) that that Garden Basics is actually organic, they just use the word organic as in "organic material", to be organic as such it needs the organic symbol/stamp (there are a few different ones) - which I don't think it has? Not sure. Products often use the word organic without it actually being so. Also as a side note, sunflowers will generally wick/take the nutrients from the crops around them, crops around sunflowers/close to them usually don't do as well.
Thankyou! Thats great info about sunflowers and I must say I’ve observed that happening but haven’t thought too much about it. So thanks for pointing that out :). Thats true about the word organic, it’s often just a word :(
Miss Phaedra Do you think this will work with cut flowers? I’m in Southern California. Thank you.
Hello!! Im not quite sure what you are asking? Do you mean can you save seed from cut flowers? Usually no, as the plant needs to develop the seed which usually means the petals die off and the seeds develop.
Grow vegetables
I am!