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Summer 2014
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We get to love summer all over again! Summer is here and our gardens are ablaze with the brightest of flowers. We get to enjoy fragrant roses, magical fuchsias and fluffy soft grass. The perfection nature has to offer our senses at the end of glorious summer days.
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Our summer edition of GardenTalk is packed full of summer gardening tips, new summer plants, garden care products and the chance to enter two competitions to win one three GardenShop gift vouchers valued at R1000 each, or two return tickets to Amsterdam from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines! Thank you to all our GardenShoppers for your continued and valued support throughout this busy and beautiful gardening year. We wish you happy summer days and holidays. Don’t forget to enjoy your garden and outdoor spaces during the summer months – it’s the perfect place to host garden parties, braais and play outdoor games. Happy gardening.
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Summer Fuchsia festival Let these fabulous flowers bring a touch of the spectacular to your summer garden
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Love summer with the latest plant releases available at GardenShop
‘Cha Cha’ and ‘Can Can’ Cordyline ‘Cha Cha’ and ‘Can Can’
Dance your way into summer with Cordyline ‘Cha Cha’ and ‘Can Can’. Colourful, weeping and variegated foliage in blends of colour. ‘Cha Cha’ and ‘Can Can’ are fast growing making them suitable for the garden and containers. Both plants must be protected against serious frost.
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Summer Action Plan
The Edible Garden
• Strawberry runners can be pegged down into soil or pots. • Remove straw from under strawberries that have finished fruiting.
The Flower Garden • Plant summer flowering seedlings. gazania, bellis perennis, stocks, petunias, lobelia, marigolds are all summer favourites.
• Harvest globe artichokes.
• Prune late spring and early summer flowering shrubs and trees, like your azaleas, magnolias and rhododendrons immediately after flowering to promote new growth.
• Sow salad crops directly into the ground for continuous harvesting of fresh vegetables and herbs.
• Deadhead sweet pea flowers to increase their flowering season.
The Lawn
• Deadhead roses and feed regularly with Wonder 8:1:5 (25) for Roses and Flowers, Neutrog’s Sudden Impact For Roses or Vigorosa.
• Mulch rhubarb plants and remove flower spikes. • Pick raspberries regularly.
• You need to increase the regularity with which you mow, ideally twice a week to keep it looking good. Don’t mow it too short when it is very hot as this can cause damage.
• Spray roses to control black spot, mildew and aphids.
• Fertilise your lawn every six to eight weeks with a granular fertiliser like Wonder 7:1:3 for Lawns and Foliage or Neutrog’s Sudden Impact for Lawns - an organically-based boosted lawn fertiliser.
• Water hanging baskets and containers at least once a day and feed weekly with Multifeed Flowergro.
• Established lawns require at least 15mm of water a week, ideally early in the morning or late evenings. It is preferable to water once a week, too much water can lead to fungus, shallow roots and weeds.
• Feed perennials and flowering shrubs with a granular fertiliser like Wonder 8:1:5 (25) for Roses and Flowers, Neutrog’s Sudden Impact for Roses or Vigorosa. Work well into the soil.
General Tasks In Your garden
• Tie and train new growth on climbing and rambling roses.
• Watch out for snails and cutworm.
• Visit GardenShop for new pots and hanging basket plants. • Check watering each day as the summer temperatures rise.
• Plant summer flowering bulbs like dahlias, amaryllis, zantedeschia and water lilies.
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Love summer with the latest plant releases available at GardenShop
‘Stairway to Heaven’ Polemonium reptans ‘Stairway to Heaven’
Forming a low mound of ferny leaves, each green leaf is edged in creamy white and flushed with pink during the early spring weather. In late spring the foliage is crowned with upright stems bearing clusters of light blue to white flowers. This hardy and colourful perennial is ideal to plant along garden edges in full or semi-shade.
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This summer GardenShoppers will be dazzled by an exciting range of garden products, garden dĂŠcor gifts and accessories. All the latest trends and ideas to delight and enhance your garden and outdoor areas.
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Love summer with a GardenShop favourite
‘Angel Wings’ Gaura lindheimeri
Bring the butterflies by introducing Gaura to your summer garden. Gaura means ‘suberb’ and these flowering hardy plants are ideal to plant in mixed borders and perfect for colour combination planting in pots. At the end of summer, when many plants look tired and dejected, Gaura lindheimeri is just the kind of plant you need. They are fresh, pretty and airy and will add lightness to a border.
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Summer Fuchsia Festival Fuchsias are at their flowering best in our summer months, growing favourably with morning sun. Fuchsias are taking centre stage this summer and dance their way into your heart creating a vibrant festival of colour and interest to your garden. GardenShop has sourced and lined up many exciting varieties from local growers. Wonderful colour combinations will add sparkle to shady borders, create interest to front entrances and to ballerina-beauty hanging baskets for patios and balconies.
Garden Care
The top gardening tip for maintaining summer healthy growth and prolific continuous flowering is with regular, weekly feeding with a liquid fertiliser like Multifeed Flowergro. For expert tips on growing and caring for Fuchsias ask for a free GardenCare leaflet, available in store.
Fuchsias
An expert guide to the as planting and care of Fuchsi
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Love summer with quality products from GardenShop
‘Organic Gold’ Culterra Organic Range
Culterra has consistently over the last 50 years produced the finest organic materials for the home gardener. Trusted and tested to enhance and optimise the health of all soil, Culterra continues to produce specific organics for all types of planting and natural nutrition for plants. Let Culterra Organics help you create a natural and safe environment throughout the year.
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Econo Gardening Packs GardenShop’s exclusive plant range of Econo packs has the advantage of convenience and most importantly, value for money. Suitable for: •
Waterwise gardens
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Available from R99.95 Please reduce your garden plastic waste by returning to GardenShop for recycling.
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Two return KLM air tickets to Amsterdam!
Keukenhof here you come . . . GardenTalk is delighted to announce the launch of its Spring and Summer 2014 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Promotion where one lucky reader stands the chance of winning two return economy-class tickets to Amsterdam courtesy KLM!
So for all those gardening enthusiasts who’ve been wanting to visit the spectacular and world-renowned Keukenhof show – which runs from 20 March - 17 May 2015 – and also explore the fantastic flora of Amsterdam and Holland at large, here’s your chance to get there and experience a feast of the senses second-to-none. Keukenhof not only boasts inspirational gardens but plays host to flower shows with as many as 600 growers presenting prize blooms! Approximately 7-million flowers blossom in the park, which covers an area of 32 hectares, with more than 700 varieties of tulips! The amazing display of Dutch flowers is not just confined to Keukenhof. You can visit the Bollenstreek Flower Parade (Bloemencorso) in April, while in August there’s another flower parade from Leiden through Rijnsburg to Katwijk aan Zee. And if you visit in January, you’ll make National Tulip Day organised on the Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam. And then there’s Castle Keukenhof - a fairy-tale-like mansion set amidst beautiful gardens. In short, blooming marvellous! Prize rules and regulations: All competition rules may be viewed at http://www.gardenshop.co.za/klmcompetition and by entering into this competition it is deemed that you have read, understood and accepted these rules.
Enter Now! Simply answer the questions below and email your answers along with your full name, physical address, office, home and mobile phone numbers to competition@ gardenshop.co.za Closing date for entries is 23 January 2015. Question 1: What 3 types of paid option seats are available on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines? Visit http://klmf. ly/1kpOXwn to find the answer!
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KLM operates a daily flight* between Johannesburg and Amsterdam as well as a daily flight* between Cape Town and Amsterdam. Both these routes are serviced by Boeing 777 aircraft.
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The merger between Air France and KLM offers clients the following added benefits:
- A choice of 24* weekly flights to and from South Africa, with a range of fast connections through the hubs of Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol.
- A vast network linking Europe to the rest of the world, with many frequencies and the possibility of combining fares.
- The joint frequent flyer program ‘Flying Blue’ is the biggest in Europe.
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For more details or to make a booking go to www.klm.co.za, call 0860 247 747, or contact your travel agent. The website has all the info you need.
Question 2: What are one of the benefits of being a GardenShop GardenRewards members? Visit http://www.gardenshop.co.za to find the answer! GardenTalk
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Christmas at GardenShop
A Red & White Christmas
We adore the magic of Christmas and the latest selection of decorations and gifts is available at all GardenShop stores. Shop early for your twinkling fairy lights, Christmas trees and sparkly baubles. And to make your festive season even more fun, here are six great theme ideas.
Decorative wooden houses
White wooden tree
Felt antelope
Bird Delight
Silver Sparkle
Wreath
Reindeer
Dove
Decorative bird box Glass birds
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Teddy bear
Deer
Festive Cuddles
Moose
Natural Foliage
Father Christmas
Paper baubles Red and white pom poms
Paper Pop
Decorative eucalyptus leafinspired trees and balls
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Festive PREVIEW Evenings
#lovesummer Facebook Competition GardenShop is launching our #lovesummer campaign and we would love to see your #lovesummer photographs. Post a picture of yourself, your best friend or family ‘loving summer’ in the garden on GardenShop’s Facebook page – GardenShopSA. Leave a comment with your posted photograph on why you #lovesummer and stand a chance to win one of three GardenShop Gift Cards valued at R1000 each. GardenShop’s marketing department will select winners at 1pm on 12 December 2014 and their names will be posted on our GardenShopSA Facebook page.
Get all jazzed up for an evening of festive shopping showcasing GardenShop’s premium Christmas gift range for 2014. Join us for an evening of light entertainment with Emmanuel Castis - local musician, performer and actor. The event is free of charge so book early to avoid disappointment. GardenShop Menlo Park Thursday 30th October 2014 | 6pm Greenlyn Village Centre, Cnr McKenzie & 13th and Streets, Menlo Park RSVP: 012 460 5137 or zola@gardenshop.co.za
GardenShop FloraFarm
Wednesday 5th November 2014 | 6pm FloraFarm Centre, Cnr North Rand & Trichardt Roads, Boksburg RSVP: 011 894 2377 or audrey@gardenshop.co.za
GardenShop Broadacres Thursday 6th November 2014 | 6pm Broadacres Lifestyle Centre, Cnr Cedar & Valley Roads, Broadacres RSVP: 011 465 4216 or robert@gardenshop.co.za
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Gardening Gifts GardenShop makes giving a real pleasure.
We stock a wide range of plants, books, garden accessories, pots and decor furnishings. Whatever your gardening or gifting needs, you will find botanicalinspired gifts for the home, patio, garden and outdoor entertaining. Give the perfect gift of a GardenShop Gift Card – now available at all GardenShop Stores.
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Gardening books
Outdoor lantern
Galvanised watering cans
Potted Anthiriums Phaleonopsis Potted lemon trees Bird baths GardenTalk
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A natural garden Using organic fertilisers, fungicides and insecticides in your garden has many benefits. This includes the production of larger fruits and flowers, increased resistance to pests and disease, helping plants survive the winter and droughts, and improving the condition of plant soil.
Available at GardenShop are a range of locally produced and endorsed organic garden care products: Margaret Roberts Organic Supercharger, a water-organic liquid plant food concentrate. It contains all macro and micronutrients including growth stimulants. Ludwig’s Insect Spray, a broad spectrum organic insecticide for the control of insects on roses, edible crops, herbs and ornamentals. It contains garlic juice extract, canola oil and natural pyrethrums. Margaret Roberts Organic Fungicide, a broad spectrum fungicide solution for the control of diseases on edible crops, ornamentals, herbs and roses.
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A summer kitchen garden to delight the senses Here are some really handy tips for creating a kitchen garden to stimulate and delight all the senses!
• Factor in fragrance. Plant pathways with pennyroyal that releases a mint fragrance as one walks over it, or pots of violas that exude a sweet fragrance. • Use the decorative and colourful vegetables to create a pleasing picture. Alternate rows of dark and light green leafy vegetables such as spikey artichokes as feature plants and silver foliage plants like silvery Santolina for contrast, which also acts as a natural insect repellent. • When combining vegetables and herbs, use companion planting principles that allow one to plant ‘healthy’ with minimal pests and diseases. ‘Must-have’ herbs include: • Thyme - a small, bushy perennial that needs full sun and tolerates poor soil. An excellent first aid antiseptic and anti-fungal herb, helps fight respiratory infections and acts as a tonic. Also a useful culinary herb to enhance any meal. Another popular variety is lemon thyme, which adds a lemon fragrance and flavour to food and is delicious as herbal tea. • Parsley - grows best in full sun and likes deep, fertile soil that drains well. It is a natural multivitamin and mineral that should be eaten daily. Italian parsley is more able to withstand frost and it grows into a bigger plant, about 80cm high compared to garden parsley which is rounder, more compact, and 30 - 60cm high. Set out new plants every six months. • Sweet Basil - an annual that grows quickly and easily, doing best in full or morning sun. Needs well composted soil and regular watering. One of the most popular culinary herbs - with special affinity with tomatoes - it can be used in any tomato sauce, soup, Mediterranean vegetable dish, pastas or salads. For more information on herbs, how to grow and use them visit www.healthyliving-herbs.co.za GardenTalk
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Love summer with beautiful flowering plants from GardenShop
Perfect flowering plants Well-composed flowering containers and hanging baskets are a work of art and greatly admired. Choosing the best combinations for summer flowering has never been easier with plants that are ready to take home. Winning combinations with colour collections of Geraniums, Lobelia, Petunias, Scaevola and Impatiens.
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Patio Perfect
Enhance your summer evenings with GardenShop’s largest collection of patio plants. Summer patio plants in beautiful flowering combinations are available in containers and hanging baskets. Plants are carefully selected from local plant growers to thrive on harsh hot summer days. For optimum continuous flowering. We encourage daily deep-watering and foliar feeding every 2 to 4 weeks with Multifeed Flowergro. The rewards of correct plant positioning together with regular watering, foliar feeding and deadheading are an abundance of flowers that will delight many the summer visitor!
Village Candles for magical summer evenings on your patio • Watermelon Scan here to watch a video on how to plant up your own hanging basket.
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The most fragrant roses for your garden
Double Delight – a hybrid tea rose with a long season of flowering. The double flowers
have a rich, creamy white to pale pink centre with deep, ruby edging. They have a bushy habit, growing to a height of 1.5m with a 0.5m spread. Double Delight shows good disease resistance, although less so in wet weather. Expect a sweet, spicy fragrance, heightened in the early evenings.
Just Joey – a beautiful apricot-coloured, hybrid tea flower rose with a delicious fruity fragrance. The foliage is glossy with dark green leaves that are very disease resistant. Just Joey has a bushy, rounded habit that is perfect for the smaller garden. It generally grows to 1.2m, though it may stay as small as 60cm. Mister Lincoln – this velvety, deep red hybrid tea is still one of the most popularly grown
Double Delight
garden roses. Beautiful as well as strongly perfumed, Mister Lincoln’s flowers are held on stiff, upright stems. The bushes can be expected to grow 1.5m tall and about 0.5m across. For expert tips on growing and caring for roses ask for a free GardenCare leaflet, available in store.
Mister Lincoln
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Organic roses to delight! Scents of perfume wafting on the summer breeze, a palette of colours to delight! The secret to growing healthy organic, stunningly beautiful, low-maintenance roses is to do just a few basics right and you will be justly rewarded for your efforts.
Position: roses thrive in direct sunlight with sufficient space for a good flow of air. This assists to dry leaves in wet and rainy conditions and discourages fungal disease like downy mildew, black spot and stem rot. Select the variety for desired effect: there are four distinctive characteristics that will determine the look and feel of your rose plantings. Floribunda (Bush rose), Hybrid Tea (Formal structure), Climber/ Creeper (Rambling rose), Ground cover (Low growing). Condition the soil: mix coompost and 150g of Vita Grow 2:3:2(16) fertiliser. Position rose, then fill planting holes with this mix. Adjust the soil pH for optimum results before planting. Roses prefer a slightly acidic soil of around 5,5 to 6. If soil is very acidic add a cup of agricultural lime (Dolomitic lime) to the above planting mix. In high alkaline soils use acid compost. Plant correctly: ensure rose roots are covered with 5cm of soil by planting slightly below soil level. Pile up soil mix and allow to settle after watering. Roots should not be exposed, but the stem should not be planted below the soil. Mulch: use a suitable mulch to retain moisture, keep soil cool and prevent weeds from germinating. Cover rose beds or the base of each rose with well weathered wood chips (not pine or eucalyptus, nor pine needles as they are too acidic), dry leaves or leaf mould, straw, or plant a mulch from Healthy Living Cover-itt’s groundcover range such as Virginian stocks, alyssum, and pennyroyal. Water regularly: in hot dry weather, water two to three times a week with a good soaking to keep the roses cooling system working. Reduce watering frequency to once a week in cold months. Fertilise with Vita Organic Fertiliser for best results: with pruning sprinkle 150g Vita Grow 2:3:2(16) around root zone per rose to condition roots and grow a sturdy, healthy structure. After four months sprinkle 100g of Vita Fruit & Flower 3:1:5(18) per rose and repeat this again four months later. And now everything will be coming up roses!
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Birds forever
We all love the sound of happy, content and busy birds! Our feathered friends need food and water for eating, drinking and bathing. Keeping your bird feeders topped up with delicious and nutritious food has never been easier than at GardenShop. Our GardenBirds range of wild bird feeding products are all locally produced and suited to our visiting birdlife. GardenShop’s large selection of feeding products for wild birds include:
Suet balls and slabs, high in protein
Seed treats, assorted seed grains
Suet ball holder
Nectar Mix, a high protein drink
Bird Feeders, a beautiful place for our feathered friends to eat!
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Raw peanuts, an excellent source of protein
All things carnivorous
Ferocious and hungry, GardenShop’s range of carnivorous plants are eagerly waiting to capture and intrigue your children’s imagination of the extra ordinary power that nature has to offer.
A delight for children to watch and grow at home and a great source of entertainment for school show-andtells too. It’s also a good idea to buy an organic foliar feed like Nitrosol as these plants are very hungry and any extra food will boost their prowess.
Kids! Grow your own Sunflowers! Materials
• Sunflower seeds • Multifeed Flowergro, a liquid fertiliser • Stakes (optional) • Wooden ice-cream sticks (from art/ craft or kitchen shop) • Permanent pen
Directions
1. Have your child plant sunflower seeds early in summer - after all danger of frost has passed - about 3cm deep and about a metre apart. 2. If you’re planting sunflowers in the garden, plant them where they won’t shade shorter plants. 3. Water the plants regularly with water and every three weeks with Multifeed Flowergro. 4. When seedlings appear, put compost around the base of each plant, making sure the compost doesn’t touch the stem. 5. Taller plants may need stakes for support.
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