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Posted by on January 8, 2012 in Garden

In your garden

  • Add a cold summer hold with a sidestep of low blue-flowered Plumbago auriculata ‘Royal Cape’. Flowering in summer, autumn and open with blooms that resemble clusters of phlox, it’s audacious and needs small some-more than an occasional moulding trim.
  • Give ponds nightly pizzazz by installing underwater lights (available in pack form), or maybe a spotlight destined on them from a circuitously tree or wall.
  • Create pleasant pot interest with a new Tradewinds hibiscus from Colourwise (www.colourwise.com). Bred to furnish a improved robe when grown in a container, it has a reduced blossom dump compared to other hibiscus and comes in colours trimming from white, yellow and orange, to red and pink.
  • Attract butterflies into your garden by planting nectar-producing favourites such as candytuft, dahlia, catmint, sedum, verbena, alyssum, heliotrope and flannel flower – and equivocate spraying insecticides.
  • If mowing is removing we down, check out a dense-foliaged Liriope muscari ‘Isabella’. It creates a sensuous leaflet that requires mowing usually once a year to keep it during about 21cm high, or twice a year, if you’d like it shorter. Considered by many to be a improved choice to mondo grass, it’s accessible from Ozbreed. Visit www.bestplants.com.au for stockists.
  • Water wisely over summer. If you’re endangered about your garden’s water, deposit in a Neta Litre Meter. It allows we to guard H2O by volume as we use it. Simply set a arrow on the dial to 0 and start watering. You can use it with your stream spray-gun or buy it pre-assembled with a Neta spray-gun.
  • Like to exam your topiary-growing skills? All we need is a container, a good-quality potting brew and an English box (Buxus sempervirens). As it grows, shave and awaken it into a shape, watering and feeding frequently with a foliar fertiliser. You can inspire a branches to grow in your preferred instruction by regulating a soothing wire.
  • Clean out additional plants from your pool that have exploded in series from additional sun. You can use them to make a rarely healthful mulch for garden beds.
  • Collect seeds from your favourite annuals. Store them in an pouch in a dry mark for sowing subsequent spring.

Plant Now

FLOWERS
All zones: Alyssum, marigold, petunia, portulaca, salvia, verbena and zinnia.
Zones 2-6: Ageratum, amaranthus, aster, coleus, dahlia, gerbera, impatiens, linaria, nasturtium, pansy, phlox, poppy, primula, stock, honeyed pea and wallflower.

Zones 7-8: Begonia, cosmos, gomphrena, sunflower, torenia and vinca.

VEGETABLES
All zones: Beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, cress, leek, lettuce, radish, rhubarb, silverbeet and open onion.
Zones 2-6: Beetroot, Brussels sprouts, carrot, endive, herbs, kohlrabi, parsnip, swede and turnip.
Zones 7-8: Artichoke suckers, capsicum, celery, cucumber, eggplant, kohlrabi, marrow, melon, okra, potato tubers, squash, honeyed corn, honeyed potato tubers, tomatoes and zucchini.

Summer savvy

Add a dash of character and attract to your summer garden by merging a grave and a pleasant in a pleasing container. A customary hibiscus in a pot gives a constructional demeanour of a topiary, while those fanciful lofty flowers supplement astonishing zing to a scene. Don’t be too sold about rounding off a tip expansion – let it flower first, afterwards trim it behind to figure when a blooms finish. For a beautiful planting in a base, try a begonia, such as ‘Bonfire’ (used here), to emanate a heat-loving combo that will demeanour fantastic via a season.

In stand protection

If you’re carrying difficulty with your crops, a resolution could be an Easy Net Tunnel. It helps strengthen crops from predators and a sun, and preserve dirt moisture. The hovel is accessible in dual sizes. To order, call 1800 726 687 or revisit www.gardenware.com.au ‘Like’ us on Facebook
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