 Chris
and Marie now have their own radio show at 3MP on a Sunday from 10am till
10.30am. The show focuses on one subject that are of real interest to
listeners. Chris and Marie also do a mini makeover every week for a lucky
listener. Chris and Marie say what type of garden they wish to make eg:-
Vegie patch, a rose bed, a low maintenance garden and request listeners to
send in a photo of the area where they wish to have such a garden and one
garden is selected for a makeover. Chris and Marie are well known, Melbourne
nursery people, famous for their zany radio and television commercials.
Chris and Marie have worked together growing
and selling plants
Chris was brought up on a small flower and nursery property in Mount
Dandenong and he started helping his father in the nursery from the age of
5. When Chris met Marie, he was a nursery hand in his father’s nursery. To
make a little bit of extra money, they started a part time mail order
business, selling exotic trees to rural properties throughout Australia.
Chris and Marie have worked together growing and selling plants.
 These
days, they have two grown up children running their production nurseries and
the youngest son has his own sound engineering business and records Chris
and Marie’s ads.
Chris’s idea of a holiday is a seed collecting trip
Chris’s first memory of doing nursery work was standing on the roof of his
father’s volkswagon and collecting wattle seeds. Collecting seeds and
growing plants from seed is still Chris’s favourite part of the business and
Chris and Marie have had lots of adventures collecting seed all over
Australia and even the world. The fast growing, spectacular flowering
Saphire Dragon came from seed that Chris
collected in the late 1980’s in the mountains of Anhui- China. Chris and
Marie specialise in giant Agaves, they produced their fields of agaves by
climbing the cliffs along the ocean near Malibu and collecting 20ft flower
stems and extracting the seed. and luckly Maire loves the adventure.Tune into 1377 3MP on 10am Sundays to hear Chris & Marie
discuss gardening and garden issues.
Chris
and Marie’s 3MP
First mini makeover for Tania
& Con from Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs
Second
mini makeover:
Low
Maintenance Garden for Kevin and Carmel Ryan
Hallam
Michelle from Knoxfield
the
third mini makeover
Fourth
mini makeover:
A Veggie patch for Tony Howard and his daughter Lynne
of Langwarren.
Fifth
Garden Makeover for Rebecca in Carrum
Sixth
Garden Makeover for Brad and Megan from Yarra
Junction
Seventh Garden Makeover A bit of a lift for
Barbara & Mick
Eighth mini makeover An
“Awesome” lift for Dianne
Ninth mini makeover
June and Graham's Veggie Patch
Tenth mini makeover Mrs Val from Frankston
& Evelyn in Heathmont |
