Gardening Talkback

Judy Sharpe answers questions about gardening issues.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about black eggs, nematodes in radishes, citrus trees, bougainvillea, pests on lilly pilly, pests in rock orchids, and a mulberry tree.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about magnolia flowers turning brown, a lemon tree, a flowering gum, lemon tree wasp, brush turkeys, vegetables gardens and beetroot.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about controlling clover and weeds in lawns without killing the grass, paw paws, pruning apple trees, cutting back a murraya hedge, growing parsley, suckers on lemon tree stems, pruning mandarin and apple trees, and caring for a passionfruit vine.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about roses, pruning a confetti bush, caring for a lime tree, and why roses transplanted from the garden into pots are not thriving.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about maidenhair fern, wisteria that isn't flowering, jacaranda, peace lily, jasmine, and horse manure.

Scott Sharpe answers questions about fertiliser for lemon trees, jonquils and daffodils, controlling mites that eat strawberries, promoting growth on a hibiscus, passionfruit vines with flowers but no fruit, transplanting strawberries, and mandarin leaves turning yellow.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about orchids, weed killers, Acacia Limelight, ginger plant, black spot on roses, a lemon tree, and pruning roses.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about fertiliser for succulents, dividing a peace lily, avocados, a spray that kills everything, growing pumpkins in the absence of bees, and tomatoes.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about avocados, frangipani trees, macadamia trees, happy plants, weeds in lawns, root rot in cypress pines, pruning crepe myrtles, and fertilising trees.

Judy Sharpe answers listeners' gardening questions on topics including standard roses, preparing rose garden beds, mold on citrus trees, a flowering ponytail palm, grafted citrus producing thick-skinned fruit, and moving a pomegranate tree.

Judy Sharpe answers listeners' gardening questions, covering rose leaf spots, little ruby plants, pruning climbing roses, trimming roses, reviving a struggling avocado tree, fixing hibiscus problems, and the best time to trim hedges.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about gardenias, controlling weeds with hot water, growing a large indoor fig tree, cauliflower, wisteria, soil grubs, liquidambar trees, and ants.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about cyclamen, climbing roses, sweet peas, blueberry trees, and camellia.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about beetroot, mandevilla seeds, and spathiphyllum.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about a yellow rose garden, lawns, and moving a camellia.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about a lemon tree, pruning a mulberry, a happy plant, chokos, a transplanted rose, pruning a May bush, and how to control gnats.

Scott Sharpe answers questions about planting daffodils, fertilising staghorns, passionfruit flowering with no fruit, daffodils under citrus, planting Leylandii, frangipani, lilly pilly, and stumpremoval after poisoning a tree.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about finger limes, leaves turning yellow on lemon tree, and when to plant poppies.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about spinach, a murraya hedge dying in patches, soil with high pH, roses, growth on shrubs, green ants nesting under an orange tree, and bromeliads.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about a sick tibouchina, calla lily, an issue with moths, statice plants, white residue on the branches of a lilly pilly hedge, holes in the trunk of a mandarin tree, and crepe myrtle.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about lawn grass, citrus curly leaf, eco oil, agapanthus, army grub in the buffalo grass lawn, white bugs on lilly pillies, and weeds around roses.

Scott Sharpe answers questions about mangosteens, gardening in pots, manure for snow peas, planting in a shaded area next to a golden cane palm, leaves turning brown on a potted plant, black scale on hibiscus, and apple cucumbers.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about organic mulch, bougainvillea, crepe myrtle, plum trees, and white spots on pigface.

Scott Sharpe gives advice on a hibiscus pest, a figleaf beetle, a red-shouldered leaf beetle, passionfruit, and a murraya hedge.

Judy Sharpe talks about Wollemi pines and answers questions about whether it is too late to prune roses, climbing beans not bearing, passionfruit vines, yellow rose, desert roses, mite on citrus and a grub problem.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about a burnt maidenhair, gardenia, hydrangeas, flowering plum, pawpaw, grasshoppers on spinach, agapanthus, roses, dwarf camellia, protea, and a potted blueberry.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about passion fruit, crepe myrtles, and fragipanis.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about a bare patch in the lawn, tamarillo tree, hibiscus, star jasmine hedge, gardenia, hydeangeas, azalea, and a Christmas bush not flowering.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about how to get rid of couch grass in a buffalo lawn, saving a bird of paradise accidentally sprayed with herbicide, grevillea branches dying, capsicums rotting on the plant, how to prune roses, sooty mould on cucumbers, wasps on lilly pilly, when to cut May bush, small lemons dropping off the tree, rose leaves dying in the heat, and how to fertilise fruit trees.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about roses in alkaline soil, buds on roses, yellow roses, brassicas, slaters, snails, grevillea, miniature Japanese box, and bottle trees.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about chillies, removing a tree growing through a camellia, vegetable seedlings, keeping some of the previous potting mix when repotting, poor pear-tree growth, and how to grow tomatoes.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about pollen beetles and caterpillars on roses, whether it's OK to reuse a pot after a plant has died in it, yellowing leaves and spots on geraniums, using vinegar to clean pots, problems in the veggie garden, how to control weeds, a magnolia bush that won't flower, and a poinciana.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about blueberries, bromyliad, onions, and a fig tree.

Judy Sharpe's tackling a lively mix this week - from the curious "naked lady" with just one flower and yellow toadstools in pots to hippeastrum, orchid repotting, roses, passionfruit, and even how to poison those pesky weeds.

Judy Sharpe takes questions about pests, azaleas, agapanthus, slaters, passionfruit, chokos, and peach trees.

Scott Sharpe takes questions about clover alternatives, black spot on tomatoes, clay, mangoes, onion weed, fig trees, a pine tree problem, and a finger lime.

Judy Sharpe takes questions about gardening.

Judy talks about spring feeding and answers questions on leaf curl and suckers from Magnolias.

Judy looks at Spring flowers and bulbs, and bindi.

Judy Sharpe returns for the second week of spring but what do we need to do for our indoor plants.

Scott Sharpe returns just in time for spring and we are excited.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about what to plant with a rose, remedies for orange trees, hibiscus, pruning crucifix orchids, where to get a particular grapevine, leaf curl on an orange tree, spray for prevention of fruit fly, and sulphate of ammonia.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about gladioli, the weather, onion weed, when to transplant passionfruit, peace lily, a passionfruit vine not flowering, and croton trees dropping leaves.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about dahlias, spraying grass, weeds in lawn, pruning azaleas, lychee tree, and Surefire weed spray.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about onion weed, what to feed large heavily pruned lemon tree, how to stop possums from eating vegetables, Tahitian lime, staghorms and elkhorns with borers, a citrus tree with mushrooms growing around trunk, keeping mayhern ferns alive, and potting mix.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about yellow roses, freesias not flowering, roses, camelia struggling, citrus with wrinkly yellow leaves, and graevillea flowering nad pruning.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about transplanting a pine tree, when to transplant grdenia and azalea, tripitrina, replacing rare yellow roses, poisoning bamboo, cucumbers, and magnolia.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about white mould on top of indoor plant spoil, a pest eating pumpkins, best time to transplant frangipani from a pot, red Flanders poppy, leaf curl on citrus, Camellia leaves turning yelloe, and tiobouchina. Murraya never flowered.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about roses, moving a dwarf citris tree, a Murraya that never flowered, stink bugs, mold on a paw paw tree, and a mulberry tree. Murraya never flowered.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about clivea, a herbicide on buffalo, something eating plants, shelf life of a garden chemical, potted hydrangeas, and grubs on clivia.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about chrysanthemum, citrus trees with leaf curl, when to prune roses, gardenia with black soot, and a problematic orange tree.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe answers questions about a potted rose that no longer flowers, when to prune crepe myrtle, when to cut back tibouchina and will it grow from cuttings.

Gardening expert Judy Sharpe andswers questions about roses, sweet peas, passionfruit, using pyrethrum on clivia, citrus bugs, and dahlia.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about white scale on roses, blue spot on beetroot, frangapani, native trees, azalea, and passionfruit.

Scott Sharpe answers questions about potatoes, mango tree fruit have been eaten by something, vines with runners on a lemon tree, hollow passionfruit, getting rid of nut grass, citris that flowers but doesn't fruit, and lillies.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about feeding staghorns and elkhorns, a hedge dying, geese, potato plants being eaten by Asian lady bugs. Chinese tallow pruning, pruning roses, and soil treatment for fungi.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about repotting roses, caring for maiden hair fern in the cold, striking a cutting from a fiddle leaf fig, lemons not ripening, citrius and nematodes, souring grass, and worms in the lawn.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about hibiscus, a remedy for curl grubs, carbaryl insecticide, pruning advice for allamanda, a fig tree with curl leaf, a remdy for stink bugs, and daphne.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about peace lillies, maderins and passionfruit.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about mango trees, prolific growth in trees, a distressed tree, moths in the garden bed, how to make rhubarb grow better, a large area of kikuyu grass dying, army grubs, and control for clover in buffalo lawn.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about bugs on hibiscus, why indoor plants are dying, leaf curl on citrus, finger lime, and killing a mango tree with kindness.

Scott Sharpe answers questions about lemons, olive trees, hardenberger plant, blue glow agave, and passionfruit.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about insects on pot plants, non-flowering frangipani, Seasol on vegetables, black substance on gardenia, once lush myoporum dying off, and when to move a mulberry tree.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about bees, tomatoes, camellia, avocado, gardenia, and pine trees.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about corymbia ficifolia, passionfruit, manderines, icebergs, and a claret ash tree.

Scott Sharpe answers questions about carnations, germinating banksia ANZAC seeds, orchids, pruning passionfruit, and mangos.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about the Newcastle rose, ivy germaniums, hydrangeas not flowering, potted plams and hibiscus being eaten, citrus, and a vin being eaten by a possum.

Judy Sharpe answers questions about passionfruit, tomato pests, monsterea deliciosa, rust on roses, lawn leaf spray, keeping plants hydrated while you're away, and what herbs to plant in a large pot.

Judy Sharpe talks about climbing roses and answers questions about onion weed, using wood chips around roses, and a pest on hibiscus.

Judy Sharpe talks about climbing roses and answers questions about black ants eating strawberries, stink bugs, growing aeonium, gardenia, and a safe way to control snails.

Scott Sharpe answers questions about growing daisies, emu plant, hydrageas, snails on citrus, lack of fruit on blueberries, and lawn weed.

Baz Santorelli talks about Bonsai, and Judy answers questions about agapanthus, Swiss Cheese plant, testing for acidity, crepe myrtle leaves looking burnt, pruning camellias, fertilising spinich, passionfruit, and the strawberry patch being eaten.

Judy answers questions about orange trees, stink bugs, a pennywort, identifying a yellow flower, tomatoes, strawberries, a potted miniature fruit tree, and grevilleas.

Judy answers questions about how to manage fruitfly, a tree fern, what to do with pine tree clippings, a nectarine with dicoloured leaves, and tomatoes not ripening.

Scott answers questions about cutting back large camellias, ant hills, citrus trees, hibiscus, bluebell bulbs, and pool-side shrubs.

Judy answers questions about germinating apple seeds, olive trees, red onions, large pots, fiddle leaf fig, no bees, a mandarin tree, and a May bush transplant.

Judy answers questions about grass, soil quality in the vege patch, mango trees, the best tomato fertiliser, caring for buffalo grass, the scarcity of bees, and a pine cone from Gallipoli.

Judy answers questions about cuttings, fruitfly treatment, feeding bluberry bush for bigger fruit, and using coffee grounds in the garden.

Judy answers questions about onion weed, a mango tree, sweet peas not flowering, gardenia being burned, clover in the buffalo lawn, lilly pillies, fruit tress, single holly hocks, holes in leaves, a lawn spray that's safe for dogs.

Judy answers questions about citrus, flowering shrub possibilities for NW aspect, garlic with no flavour, a possum destroying ornamental pear tree, and frangipani.

Judy answers questions about maidenhair fern, cactii, succulents, passionfruit, snow peas, shallots, lillies in the lawn, and mealybugs in pot plants.

Judy answers questions about bougainvillea, citrus with white specs, bugs in pot plants, azaleas, orange tree not fruiting, gardenia, lillies, and grasshoppers.

Judy answers questions about fertilising passionfruit, cutting back a frangipani, peat moss, where to purchae caper plants, and how to help a magnolia that has never flowered.

Judy answers questions about issues with oranges, passionfruit, hibiscus, tomatoes, peaches and nectarines.

Judy answers questions about basil, poinsettias, passionfruit, when to mulch roses, when to fertilise succulents, and trimming dwarf lemon and organge plants in pots.

Judy answers questions about maidenhair ferns, caring for a rose over 100 years, bark for pottened climing plants, chillies, and hydrangeas.

Judy answers questions about when to prune roses and hydrangeas, irises, black flies on indoor plants, moving roses, stag horns and elk hors, and passionfruit not ripening.

Judy answers questions about when to relocate a mature orange tree, army worms in the lawn, camelias not flowering, and when to re-pot plants.

Judy talks about house plants and some new roses.

Judy answers gardening questions including about lawns, and roses in pots.

Judy answers gardening questions including about roses and curl grub.

Judy talks about pansies, strawberries and answers questions.

Scott talks about growing your own mushrooms and garden mulch.

Our Gardening expert looks indoor plants during the winter months.

Our gardening expert takes calls on passionfruit and grasshoppers.

Our gardening expert takes calls about frangapani, red poppies, and talks about some of the jobs that need doing as autumn begins.

Our gardening expert takes calls about gardening.

Our gardening expert talks calls about bindi, couch and buffalo grass.