Our Staffs' Top Tips
Check out these handy hints......
too much rain!
We have been inundated with heavy showers now for about a month, if you have a clay soil you may be finding some areas are waterlogged with plants suffering.
- Revamp areas where the soil has become compacted, by planting hardy ground covers and grasses
- Prune back plants to allow more airflow around foliage and prevent fungal disease
- Clear mulch away from the stems and base of plants to discourage collar rot
- Give grasses and kangaroo paws a harsh haircut to let their crown dry out
- Prune spent flowers from grafter flowering gums, kangaroo paws and proteas
- Check out lilly pillys, callistemons and leptospermums for scale and wooly aphid, these pests love the humid moist weather!
- If you have a white cedar that gets attacked by caterpillars every year, now is the time to put in a barrier of vaseline on the trunk. A thick ring around the trunk stops them from gets to the tasty leaves, works like magic they soon give up!
Scaevola albida "Blue Ribbons"
"Fan Flower"
Scaevola "Blue Ribbon" is one of the many different forms of Scaevola albida, also known as the 'Fanflower' due to its fan shaped flowers. An extremely hardy, low growing groundcover (sometimes mounding on itself creating dome like shapes), will give you colour from September right through the summer months, and even into April/May. Prefers a well drained soil, and the more sun - the more flower! Prune after flowering for best growth in the cooler months.
Available now in flower in 140mm pots!
