Do not use chemical sprays once temperature reaches 28 degrees, or you will burn your plants. Best time is early evening, once the sun has set. Water your plants and not your garden. Give each plant a watering can full of diluted seaweed solution once a week in very hot weather. Spray Hibiscus with Confidor to prevent h...
When you've pruned your roses, you will need to spray with lime sulphur, Pestoil or Eco oil to smother insect eggs and fungal spores. That will mean less spraying in spring for pests. You can't spray lime sulphur if new leaves have sprouted. Then water on Seamungus or Harvest to activate root growth. Don't feed with ...
Feed bulbs such as daffodils, jonquils, hyacinths and tulips when leaf shoots appear, try Garden Gold or bulb food.Stop watering houseplants as they do not need additional moisture during winter.Stop watering potted frangipani.Plant dormant stone fruit trees such as peach, nectarine and plum.Deciduous shade trees should be plant...
Remove spent seed heads of agapanthus before they self seed and become a problem.
Gently prune finished flowers from your Christmas Bush and feed well with a Native Plant Food and water in well.
Make a note of frangipani specimens that you like, so that you can go back in winter to take cuttings.
Protect developing fruit fr...
* 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...
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