Episode: WA Special
Date: 26th September
Story: Latest Garden Trends in WA
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane

With WA’s unique gardening environment, gardening centers are a great place to get good advice about what plants best suit this environment, as well as tips on gardening. In WA the good old fashioned traditional garden centre experience has been offered by the iconic Waldecks group for the past 30 years. Trevor has a field day at Waldecks and showcases the latest gardening trends in WA.

About Waldecks

• Waldecks, the people who know gardens best, are proud to be able to bring to you the latest trends in outdoor lifestyle fashion. We have travelled the world to source the most stylish range of outdoor furniture, garden art, water features, plaques, pots, statues and glass reinforced concrete products that best suit the décor needs of today's garden and outdoor lifestyle areas.
• Since its humble beginnings in 1968, Waldecks has maintained its position as a trendsetter within the Australian horticultural industry.
• Waldecks is a major supplier to retail markets throughout Western Australia of an extensive range of horticultural products including exotic species through to Australian natives.
• The group consists of five conveniently located metropolitan stores and one country store in Bunbury.
• Since its inception, Waldecks has lead the market in a range and quality of product
• Waldecks are renowned for their friendly, knowledgeable staff who have been trained to deliver first class service to all customers and ensure the right advice is give to create good healthy gardens.
• This advice has recently been extended to the establishment of the Landscape Design service. Which is a very inexpensive way of receiving the best advice and planning for any garden. For a small fee, experienced Waldecks staff visit your property and commit ideas etc. to a workable design that is easy to follow and can be completed in stages if desired.
• Waldecks continues to source new plants to ensure the public are provided with the latest new products within Australia and overseas. Continuous analysis of potting mixes and fertilisers ensures the highest quality product is available from our own Waldecks products such as:

Featured Plants
Callistemon “Great Balls of Fire.”

• Compact
• Ideal for hedging

Hardenbergia “Happy Wandererer”

• Native plant
• Wonderful screening plant

Armeria “Bees Baby”

• Beautiful border plant
• Pink flowers with nice fragrance

Diascia

• Produce lots of colour right through spring and into summer

Acacia “Curvaceous”

• Dwarf form of acacia

Dietes “White Tiger”

• white strappy look

Pittosporum “Gold Ball”

• nice rounded shape

Waldecks have a great offer- if you head into Waldecks on the 27th and 28th September 2008, you can purchase a hanging basket, normally valued at $12.95, for just $6.95. They will throw in two pots of colour as well!