Stephanie Alexander

The beans are planted, the peach trees are laden with fruit and the hydrangeas are abuzz with bees in Stephanie Alexander’s garden.

The Lorraine Lee rose has climbed beyond the trellis and the Gertrude Jekyll is rambling over the house, and although the carrots and silverbeet continue to flourish, Stephanie Alexander names the broad beans her star crop this month.

Spring has sprung in Stephanie Alexander’s garden...

This month, Stephanie Alexander cuts back the capsicum bushes and cooks the cumquats down to jam.

In Stephanie Alexander’s winter garden the oakleaf is self-seeding, the rhubarb thriving, broad beans are flowering and the cumquats are ripe for the marmalade pot.

Stephanie Alexander braves the chilly winds to tend her herbs and admire the camellias’ generous blooms.

As the days become short and the evenings turn cold, Stephanie Alexander monitors the progress of the brassicas and prepares to plant garlic.

The pomegranate tree is in flower and the sweet peas have been sown, but while Stephanie Alexander enjoyed a pear crop, the parrots enjoyed the crabapples.