Welcome friends and family with a smart natural coir doormat, abstract or botanical pattern. Sweep the path with a millet broom from Tumut Broom Factory, handmade since 1946, also mini whisks.
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The gardener cutting bunches of roses or a swag of Australian mistletoe needs PVC-coated gauntlet gloves from Pope, an Australian company for 89 years. Champion rose of Canberra's Horticultural Show was hybrid tea 'Falling in Love'. Picnic in the Old Parliament House rose gardens with Dr John Gray's book Roses, Tennis & Democracy (see NCA website).
Mosquitoes have already whined their way into Canberra gardens. Plant the native mozzie blocker shrub and, for effective repellants, see the website of Dr Cameron Webb from the Department of Medical Entomology, Sydney University. Create a frog pond.
Hear a frog chorus at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Eddison Park pond, recently refreshed in Woden, and Sullivans Creek wetlands in O'Connor, Dickson and Lyneham.
Choose frog plants from Ginninderra Landcare website and join ACT Frogwatch. Relax with a book about the home and garden of Australian interior designer Stuart Rattle. He died last year aged 53, and all the royalties go to Friends of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens.
Solemate coir doormats, $69.95, Living in Style, Manuka
Pope rose pruning gardening gloves, $8.10, Magnet Mart in Phillip
Tumut Broom Factory 'Original' millet broom $40, Bellchambers Produce, Fyshwick
Hybrid tea rose "Falling in Love"
Mozzie blocker (Leptospermum liversidgei), $13.95 The Garden. Dickson
Stuart Rattle's Musk Farm (Penguin/Lantern) $39.99
Bog plants common rush (Juncus usitatus) and sedge (Carex apressa).
