My biggest personal challenge is reconciling myself to the idea that I may
never be able to grow the plants I love in the places I have room for them!
;-)
For example, I would love to have a camellia hedge of lovely full double old
fashioned camellias but the spot I want to have them gets full sun and, here
in Perth, that can be pretty harrowing - even in winter.
Limited time, money and energy is another biggie!
Apart from that, I do have a problem with both side passges at my house so
maybe BHG isn't so far off.

"Chookie" wrote in message
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In article ,
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

According to Better Gnomes and Fardels "The greatest challenge facing
Australia's gardeners today is the dreaded side passage"

Well, that *is* challenging... but I don't watch BGF. I'd take Gardening
Australia any day. But let's make this a survey!

What IS our greatest challenge as Aussie gardeners?

Making our gardens more suited to our environment -- ie, reducing water,
energy and fertiliser consumption, reducing CO2... all that stuff, which I
think we garden fiends tend to do anyway.

What is the most challenging spot in your garden?

A particular spot in the bed at the front of my house. The house faces
south,
so is in shade for most of the year. There is a spot which has a more
westerly aspect, and in late summer, the sun comes around and fries
anything I
have planted there.

I have just removed a sickle wattle from there -- poor thing had fallen
over
trying to get some sun -- and have planted Plectranthus argentatus and
Wintersweet. Hoping the light hedge of Grevillea 'Moonlight' to the west
might lower the death rate.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You
may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue