To market, to market

You can find everything you need at weekend markets, from fresh fruit and veg to handmade jewellery and wares, throughout the Central Highlands and surrounds. Here are just a few.

Daylesford Sunday Market – every Sunday

Wesley Hill Market - every Saturday

Daylesford Farmers Market – first Saturday

Trentham Neighbourhood Centre Makers Market - first Saturday

Golden Plains Farmers Market - first Saturday

Woodend Farmers Market - first Saturday

Castlemaine Artists’ Market – first Sunday

Trentham Community Group Market - second Saturday

Kyneton Farmers Market - second Saturday

Ballan Farmers Market - second Saturday

Kyneton Rotary Community Market – second Saturday

Maldon Market – second Sunday

Clunes Farmers Market - second Sunday

Trentham Farmers Market and Makers Market - third Saturday

Glenlyon Farmers Market – third Saturday

Leonards Hill Market - third Saturday

Creswick Market - third Saturday

Talbot Farmers Market – third Sunday

Woodend Lions Market - third Sunday

Trentham Station Sunday Market - fourth Sunday

Buninyong Village Market - fourth Sunday

Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville

Djangology - Sunday, January 29, noon

The Martini Set - Saturday, February 4, 6pm

Djangology - Saturday, February 11, 6pm

The Prayer Babies - Sunday, February 19, noon

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Water - the key to summer success

La Niña - there’s that fearsome name again. La Niña is certainly leaving her mark throughout this (usually) dry, brown land of ours and we are still unsure when the devastation will cease.

Having said that, on the whole, Spa Country seems to have dodged the bullet. And apart from a few boisterous, scary thunderstorms and rising creek episodes, has ended up with thriving gardens, lush green, bursting at the seams, and along with them hopefully are your plants.

But there is always a downside.

Along with the good guys and probably ahead of the pack are throngs of weeds and, of course, your lawns. They’re all galloping away, spurred on by the spasmodic rain storms.

The next problem to be faced now is when and how often to water the garden and lawns. Gardens can be damaged as much by incorrect watering as they can by neglect.

Fresh, green lawns and lush, healthy flower and shrub beds can be maintained year-round by regular feeding and maintenance. But it is the way in which the garden has been watered that holds the key.

Prolonged hot weather may place the plants under great stress if the moisture supply isn’t kept up to the young and feeder roots, and is just as damaging as overwet, poorly draining soil.

The first point to remember is that it is the root system that takes in the water supply for the plant, so apart from cleaning or cooling the foliage, there is no point in supplying the water anywhere else but on the ground.

Drip watering systems are most efficient because they supply all the plant’s needs, direct to the roots and use less than half the amount of water even the most efficient sprinkler would need for the job. Besides, evaporation and run-off wastage are completely eliminated. Our garden is almost totally watered by a network of that brown plastic dripper tubing.

Apart from the fact that it is remarkably cheap, totally efficient, and child’s play to install, its drippers are within the tubing and almost impossible to clog up, at least in all the 20-odd years we’ve used it, we’ve never had a problem. Because of that it’s even more efficient if covered with organic mulch.

This thorough watering is best as it encourages deep, strong, self-sufficient roots ending in strong, healthy plants. A long, slow watering in this manner once or twice a week is far better than frequent surface waterings that encourage all the developing root systems to grow close to the surface and struggle for survival in anticipation of the next shower.

It is best to water early in the morning so the moisture can soak right in before the sun’s dry rays take effect. This is even more important in the heat of summer, especially if you use sprinklers, when much of the water will evaporate even before it reaches the ground.

Watering in the evening or at night builds up humidity in the lawn and garden beds which will aid the spread of disease.

A plethora of photinia

I am noticing - with great delight - sprouting photinia hedges of delightful brilliant deep green, with red-tipped new growth, throughout the shire.

There are several popular forms grown. The taller and sturdier photinia robusta with deeper red new foliage and the other is a smaller hybrid form, red robin, with vibrant red tips.

Among the century-old trees dotting our property are these photinia, pictured, which I think might be a couple of rogue p.robusta which escaped the hedgeclippers to become these magnificent specimens, especially when massed with those delightful flowers.

A stitch in time: the Textile Palette Exhibition’s back

If you’re a nifty needleworker with a talent for textiles then the Clunes organisers of this year’s Textile Palette Exhibition want to hear from you.

After a Covid-enforced break, the Textile Palette Exhibition is back, being staged in Clunes over April 1-29, in the Clunes Warehouse for the first time.

And the date for submission of work for inclusion has now been extended from January 27 to February 10, the exhibition’s regional coordinator, Christine Lethlean says.

Christine, a talented textile artist who moved to Victoria from WA a decade ago, has called Clunes home for the past eight years, and runs regular workshops from her Clunes studio. She also teaches textile art Australia-wide.

“I’ve always loved stitching,” says Christine who is also a former health professional with a background that includes nursing, mental health nursing and art therapy.

Christine says submissions for this year’s Textile Palette Exhibition are being accepted from interstate as well as closer to home.

“We’re really talking about textile art as a visual art-form,” she says.

“The theme for this year’s exhibition is Time for Stitch. After the past few years navigating the changes to our lifestyle and restrictions placed on us by the pandemic, having endured long periods of isolation and separation, what’s spoken of now is how the quiet time for creativity helped many of us cope.

“Sitting and stitching was a lifeline to maintaining a sense of normality, and keeping a focus and our creative motivation alive.”

With this theme in mind, textile artists intending to submit work for inclusion in the exhibition are being invited to work on ideas connected to their experience during pandemic restrictions - or simply a project highlighting a love of all things connected to textiles and stitching.

Submissions considered for this year’s exhibition may include framed and unframed works, sculptural pieces, wall hangings, costumery or surface design, with artistic soft furnishings and unique upholstered furniture also considered.

As regional coordinator of the upcoming exhibition Christine makes no secret of the fact that she’s aiming to lift the profile of the annual event, and will be applying for a Hepburn Shire grant for promotion, marketing and signage.

“When we held the first exhibition in 2016 - it was a roaring success,” she says.

“We started as a group of about 15 stitching enthusiasts and we’ve had about four or five shows since the first.

“Now it’s going to be in April every year and I’m anticipating making it a bit more formally recognised as part of the Hepburn Shire’s events calendar, bringing visitation from curators, collectors, artisans and anyone interested in stitching as an art-form. I’m aiming to put it on the calendar as a must-do event.”

Those keen to know more can go to www.textilepaletteexhibition.org and there’s also an Instagram page @textilepalette.

Words & image: Eve Lamb