* Enjoy the birds, they'll be after the nectar in flowering gum trees, Angophoras (Sydney red gum) and kangaroo paw. Birds will also enjoy the flowes of tree waratah, ivory curl tree, grevillea and lemon myrtle, as they start to come into flower for the summer. * Mulch everywhere this week if you haven't done so already...
* Rain: Make best use of this wonderful rain and feed your garden and your lawn. Water now with seaweed and the rain will take it down to the roots where its needed. * Dead head finished rose flowers to make way for new flushes. Deep irrigate once a week with liquid manure or seaweed solution. Spray with Pestoil once a fortnig...
Our guide to rose pruning If the thought of pruning a rose leaves you cold, help is at hand. Here are our tips to make the job fly by. The first question is – why prune? Flowers appear on canes, which grow from the base of the plant. After flowering stems weaken and eventually die. Pruning ge...
Creating a beautiful garden with all the right plants for your climate is a time-consuming and demanding process. Yet it's a lot of fun. So much fun in fact, that afterwards, it's tempting to sit back, relax and wait for your garden to spontaneously flourish. Well, the bad news is that while you might be lucky and your g...
November is the time to propagate plants from softwood or semi-hardwood cuttings. You can take cuttings from plants such as rosemary, azaleas, chinese lantern and hibiscus. Make your own cuttings by cutting a 10cm cutting from the soft, new growth of an established plant. Remove the lower leaves of the cutting. ...
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