Your Garden Questions Answered
Episode: #1 10/03/07
Presenter: Melissa King
Have you been looking around your garden thinking that it needs a bit of a facelift? Well autumn is the perfect time to do it! So it is time to get into your local Water Saver Garden Centre for some tough beautiful plants – and one of the best places to start is Cranbourne Country Garden Centre.
Grafted Gums (Eucalyptus Hybrid Cultivar ‘Orange Splendour’) are show stopping. Melissa always looks for the grafted varieties because if they are grown from seed they can take up to seven years to flower and really, who is that patient? Grafted flowering gums will usually flower within the first eighteen months. In the wild, the flower colour can vary from white to apricot, pink and varying shades of red, buying grafted plants is a good way to ensure your flower colour.
Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoea australis) are uniquely Australian. They are slow growing, but can survive for hundreds of years in the wild, older plants develop an incredible trunk surrounded by a whorl of grass-like leaves.
Sedums are real stars of the dry garden. Their mostly fleshy plants with masses of star shaped flowers in summer and autumn. A lot of them also have coffee brown seed heads that carry interest into winter. A lot has been said about Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ (Sedum Hybrid Cultivar ‘Autumn Joy’) it is up there with Melissa’s favourite plants. If you want something different check out the variety Frosty Morn (Sedum hybrid Cultivar ‘Frosty Morn’) it has unusual variegated foliage and creamy white flowers that is quite ghostly looking.
Grevilleas have so much going for them. They are robust; tolerant of dry conditions, they look great plus their nectar rich blooms attract the birds. ‘Superb’ Grevillea (Grevillea Hybrid Cultivar, Banksii Group, ‘Superb’) is a real stunner with apricot coloured blooms. It is an ideal hedge or screening plant and flowers virtually all year round.
When you visit the hot dry Mediterranean there is no shortage of great looking gardens – it is all about the choice of plants.
Bring a Mediterranean air to the garden with stylish pencil pines, citrus and big Italianate terracotta pots brimming with exotic beauties. Go for tough varieties with silver foliage and sexy strappy leafed plants.
If you have got any great water wise ideas that you want to share with other gardeners, do not forget to join our on-line Garden Club.
Cranbourne Country Garden Centre
Cnr Pearcedale and Frankston-Cranbourne Rds,
Cranbourne South
Ph: (03) 9782 2855
To find out your nearest water saver garden centre visit the Our Water Our Future website at:
www.ourwater.vic.gov.au
Presenter: Melissa King
Have you been looking around your garden thinking that it needs a bit of a facelift? Well autumn is the perfect time to do it! So it is time to get into your local Water Saver Garden Centre for some tough beautiful plants – and one of the best places to start is Cranbourne Country Garden Centre.
Grafted Gums (Eucalyptus Hybrid Cultivar ‘Orange Splendour’) are show stopping. Melissa always looks for the grafted varieties because if they are grown from seed they can take up to seven years to flower and really, who is that patient? Grafted flowering gums will usually flower within the first eighteen months. In the wild, the flower colour can vary from white to apricot, pink and varying shades of red, buying grafted plants is a good way to ensure your flower colour.
Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoea australis) are uniquely Australian. They are slow growing, but can survive for hundreds of years in the wild, older plants develop an incredible trunk surrounded by a whorl of grass-like leaves.
Sedums are real stars of the dry garden. Their mostly fleshy plants with masses of star shaped flowers in summer and autumn. A lot of them also have coffee brown seed heads that carry interest into winter. A lot has been said about Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ (Sedum Hybrid Cultivar ‘Autumn Joy’) it is up there with Melissa’s favourite plants. If you want something different check out the variety Frosty Morn (Sedum hybrid Cultivar ‘Frosty Morn’) it has unusual variegated foliage and creamy white flowers that is quite ghostly looking.
Grevilleas have so much going for them. They are robust; tolerant of dry conditions, they look great plus their nectar rich blooms attract the birds. ‘Superb’ Grevillea (Grevillea Hybrid Cultivar, Banksii Group, ‘Superb’) is a real stunner with apricot coloured blooms. It is an ideal hedge or screening plant and flowers virtually all year round.
When you visit the hot dry Mediterranean there is no shortage of great looking gardens – it is all about the choice of plants.
Bring a Mediterranean air to the garden with stylish pencil pines, citrus and big Italianate terracotta pots brimming with exotic beauties. Go for tough varieties with silver foliage and sexy strappy leafed plants.
If you have got any great water wise ideas that you want to share with other gardeners, do not forget to join our on-line Garden Club.
Cranbourne Country Garden Centre
Cnr Pearcedale and Frankston-Cranbourne Rds,
Cranbourne South
Ph: (03) 9782 2855
To find out your nearest water saver garden centre visit the Our Water Our Future website at:
www.ourwater.vic.gov.au
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