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Gardening on the Edge 2020

The Maleny Garden Club is busy planning this year’s event, which will once again include six open gardens. It will be held on Saturday-Sunday, June 13-14 from 9am–4pm.

To keep up to date on planning make sure you like the club's Facebook page Gardening on the Edge 2020 Maleny Garden Club

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Oh what a beautiful garden

After the BIG rains …

If you didn’t make it to Gardening on the Edge in 2019 you missed out on seeing the beautiful gardens of The Maleny Lake Cottages on McCarthy Road, across from Maleny Dairies.

The property verges onto an expansive lake, which allows the eye to drift off from the garden vistas across the water to other gardens and properties, giving the impression of being part of an estate.

Swamp cypress trees verging the lake are a particularly striking feature with their orange and yellow autumn tones. These amazing trees can grow in wet conditions … in fact that’s what they prefer and so make a great option around the edge of a waterbody.

The gardens also have more traditional aspects, with lavender, roses and annual and perennial flowers adding colour. One non-traditional feature is the dwarf citrus trees grown amongst the flowers.

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Wholesale & Retail outlet The visual effect works well and the fact that all grow happily is a testament to property owner Liddie Shaw’s (pictured right) understanding of her garden. It’s not easy balancing the water, nutrient and care requirements for different groups of plants grown together.

Liddie is always happy to share her lovely garden as she operates beautiful private cottages on the property.

If you would like to find out more about the property go to her website www. themalenylakehouse.com.au.

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In flower now - Ivory curl tree

Buckinghamia celsissima Right now you’ll be noticing a small to medium sized tree bursting out with long white flower brushes – Landsborough has some great examples.

This is the spectacular native ivory curl tree.

A tall rainforest tree in northern Queensland, it adapts well to our climate and soils but only grows to 5-8m.

Related to banksias and grevilleas, it attracts lots of bees, butterflies and nectar-feeding birds and insects.

The flowers grow to about 20cm in length and can be used as cut flowers in the home.

It can be pruned to form a compact shape, meaning that it’s great for small backyards.

With no real pest or disease problems, it’s easy to grow and look after. Just keep those high phosphorus fertilisers away from it. Any of our wonderful local nurseries should be able to order a couple in for you.

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In the Garden The magic of mulch

Working out volumes of mulch becomes very After all the recent rains, now is a great time to think about the magic of easy using these formulas (especially with a mulch. calculator): Mulch may not actually have supernatural properties but most experienced • Area of a square (and rectangle): l x w [l = gardeners will say that it comes close. length; w = width] There’s a wide range of garden mulches but they all have the magical • Circumference of a circle: π x d [π = pi = quality of improving your soil.

3.14; d = diameter] Among the benefits, mulch insulates the soil from temperature extremes, • Area of a circle: π x r2 [r = radius = half the diameter] locks in moisture, keeps weeds at bay, prevents soil compaction and protects sensitive plantings from damage by pets and people. Plus mulches • Area of a triangle: (b x h)/2 [b = base; h = height] are great at giving garden beds an attractive, manicured and wellYou can use a combination of mostly squares, rectangles and circles to work maintained appearance. out the area of garden beds on your design.

Broadly speaking, there are two main options - organic or inorganic.

These formulas only give you the area. The other variable in working out Now this doesn’t mean they’re either all natural and chemical free or not. volume is depth.

Organic mulches are made from plants and inorganic mulches are not.

Most mulches need to be laid to a depth of no less then 5cm and no more Inorganic mulches include gravels, pebbles, scoria, glass, crusher dust, than 20cm. plastic sheeting and landscape fabrics.

Too little and it won’t do its job effectively, too much and it may prevent The benefit over organic mulches is that they don’t breakdown, so they last water from reaching the soil and restrict oxygen transfer into the soil longer. surface.

However, this is also a negative. As organic mulches break down, they add Remember that some organic mulches will compact down a little with time, humus to the soil, feeding beneficial organisms (like worms) and improving so allow an extra 10 per cent to compensate. soil structure and characteristics.

So, to work out how much mulch to order for garden beds, work out the Organic mulches – like wood chip, bark, straw, sugar cane, leaves, grass area of all the beds, then multiply the area by the depth, plus 10 per cent. clippings, cardboard, paper, and to a lesser extent hessian and coir – all Make sure you use all the same units of measurement – it’s best to convert feed the soil as they breakdown and decompose. everything to metres – and be careful with decimal points: The trade-off is that you have to keep replenishing them to maintain the • 10mm = 1cm = 0.01m benefits of mulching over time.

• 100mm = 10cm = 0.1m Most people opt for an organic mulch, so the choice of what type mostly • 1,000mm = 100cm = 1m comes down to preference and cost.

Mulch is best laid at about a 10cm thickness, so you multiply the garden If you have smaller garden beds, you might just be happy to buy bagged bed area by 10cm – again, make sure you keep the units the same. Don’t bales of sugar cane mulch or use a more expensive but very attractive option multiply centimetres by metres. such as hoop pine bark.

Let’s look at an example. If all the areas of For larger beds, a truck load of wood chip or garden bed give a total of about 180m2, then mixed forest mulch is a good option, as is the the volume of mulch required will be 180 x round bales of grassy hay.

0.1 = 18 cubic metres.

However, whatever you use, you will need to However, when ordering you would probably know how much you should buy. go up to 20 to round it off. It’s always better How do you work out how much to order, to order slightly too much than slightly too especially when most landscaping suppliers little. sell it by the cubic metre?

It’s also handy to know how much a cubic The easiest way is to draw a sketch of your metre weighs, especially if you’re taking it garden beds, make some measurements of away yourself in a trailer or in the back of a the length and width, and take that to one of ute. our local landscaping suppliers or rural stores.

• 1 cubic metre wood chip = 0.4 tonnes They’ll be more than happy to work everything • 1 cubic metre bark = 0.3 tonnes out for you.

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