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Article: Dig this - the new cure for your backyard blues
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- February 8, 2009
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CONFUSED ABOUT compost? Daunted by your daphne? A new kind of
gardening help is at hand - as long as you're prepared to put in the
hard yards yourself.
The phenomenon of garden coaching, where experts coach would-be
gardeners on a "gardening journey", is taking off around the world.
Patient, passionate and eternally perky, these coaches will
analyse your garden, hold your hand at the garden centre and help
you every step of the way to creating your dream backyard.
The idea is that clients learn to do the work themselves, says
Auckland garden coach Lester Brice. The former garden centre guru
and landscaper is based in leafy Mt Eden and uses the tagline
"sharing the knowledge, growing the ...