Seasonal gardening guide More people than ever are spending time in their gardens. STORY: MONIQUE PRESTON PHOTOGRAPHY: MEGAN FISHER Lavender
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ur Home sat down with Sally Mosely from Billabong Garden Complex to see what people should be doing in their gardens. She also gives tips on ways to add colour to your garden.
How to keep plants flowering At this time of year, there is still plenty people can do in their gardens, whether that be planting new plants, or pruning and fertilising ones that are already there.
African daisy
For those wanting to add a bit of flower colour to their gardens, they can still plant lavender, gardenias and African daisies (also known as osteospermum), Sally said. These plants flower throughout spring and summer and into autumn. However, she warned that after each flush of flowers the plants needed to be trimmed back to keep them healthy. “This will enable them to flower in summertime,” Sally said.
Gardeners should also deadhead flowers after they have died. “When flowering, the plant puts all its energy into the flower, if you don’t take them (the dead flowers) off, it can make the plant unhealthy,” Sally said. She said people should also fertilise these plants with a liquid fertiliser appropriate to the plants after each flowering. While it was important for lavender to be pruned after each flowering,
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