Jackie French: Best plants for the barbecue

Jackie French
Updated October 13 2019 - 2:33pm, first published December 4 2014 - 3:30pm

Let us be honest here. There is only one plant you can slip into your garden design that will keep the flies and mozzies from your barbecue, unless you have a friendly biochemist cum botanist who will breed you a vast mutated Venus Fly Trap for Christmas. Possibly the reason these don't already exist is a. it can't be done and b. if it could, your mutated Venus fly trap might consume the cat or even the postie, too.

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Jackie French

Jackie French

Canberra Times columnist

Jackie French is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary wombat (part time), 2014-2015 Australian Children' Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. She also writes a gardening column for The Canberra Times.

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