BushNo 83 Spring 2009 Telegraph

Welcome What’s news? Garden Talks Diana’s Garden Yummy Yards - Grow your own. On 3rd and 4th October, Diana’s By popular demand, we are holding garden in Roleystone will be another Yummy Yards session. open under the Australian Garden Learn all you need to know about Scheme. growing vegetables in your own Diana’s garden is full of Zanthorrea garden, both in containers and in collected over the past 7 1/2 ground using the no-dig method. years and is 95% Australian native. 17th October, 10am. Morning tea included. Hello, Gold coin donation to Kanyana. With such a late start to spring, the wildflowers are glorious this RSVP on 9454 6260. season. Reports from friends and customers say that this year is one of the best ones yet for viewing our magnificent flora. There are many easy to grow wildflowers from our local bush that do very well in gardens. Daniel lists The garden features winding paths a few on page 3. linking various garden rooms which Our Diana is a keen gardener, include a cottage garden using collecting plants from Zanthorrea Australian plants, a local species Australian plants in containers garden, as well as a white garden every week for her garden.She has There are many reasons for growing inspired by Sissinghurst in England. generously opened her wildflower Aus natives in pots: lack of soil, The garden is full of birdlife and garden this year, so don’t miss it. small gardens, hostile climate. Find interesting garden art. (Report this page.) out which plants do well in pots, Our new team member Chris Morning and afternoon teas will be and how to look after them. served and most of the Zan crew is doing a great job keeping our 21st November, 10am. nursery gardens neat and attractive, will be there to help on one or other Morning tea included. so call in and check out some of of the two days. the wildflowers growing in our Hope to see you there, Gold coin donation to Kanyana. backyard. Read Alec’s review of – Diana RSVP on 9454 6260. some of the plants flowering in the PS: Proceeds to support Darling gardens on page 2. Range wildlife and beyond. For Growing your own veges is more information, go to www. satisfying and rewarding, so check opengarden.org.au out page 3 for what to in the garden now. Have fun in your garden this spring. – Jackie Alec and the team PS: We are delighted to welcome Alix who joins our team on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Alix has horticultural qualifications and can help you New team member Alix create a wonderful garden. Zanthorrea Nursery 1 Bush Telegraph No 83 Spring 2009 Gardening Down Under Down-Under Our Garden Open Keep an eye out for a new type of This year we have put some effort pot on our tube bench this spring. into making our display gardens Down-Under pots are designed to better. They have always had be planted into the ground or potted interesting plants, some from the up whole without removing the 1970’s, but now we have defined plant. them with a brushwood fence edge. With some increase in maintenance by our new staff member Chris plus a good year for rain, they are looking great and well worth a visit. Bring a picnic to share in the gazebo, or in the atrium if it is wet or windy. There preissiana in flower are plenty of seats amd tables. Eucalyptus preissiana (bell fruited mallee) up near the brushwood fence is only 2m high but has lots of big yellow blooms this year. As The pots are made of pressed sugar a mallee it can be cut down to any cane by-product and are fully bio- size you want and will make 3m in degradable. Many growers across 20 years if you don’t prune! Australia are using them now and have given good feedback, so we are giving them a try. This new efficient and environmentally friendly Chris in the display gardens technology looks very promising for the future. We were late with our everlastings this year and although one batch Check out tubes of local wildflowers will be flowering in October, some Lechenaultia biloba (blue) and the along the new brushwood fence purple Hardenbergia comptoniana are just up and it will be interesting in Down-Under pots now. to see how well they can do for And plant the pot ‘Down Under’! November and December blooms. – Samara Amongst the many flowering plants PS: Our new 125mm compostible out there, keep an eye out for: pots are NOT to be planted with the Hardenbergia and Banksia ericifolia Philotheca (native daphne). This plant. The plant is carefully removed plant used to be called Eriostemon, Hardenbergia comptoniana (native from the pot and planted with soil and there are many forms including wisteria). These climbers are improver, before the organic pots is ‘Flower Girl’ and ‘Cascade of Stars’ looking great as usual. Look out crushed and composted. that are now in full bloom. These for the pink flowered form of our lightly fragrant flowers last well as local one! There is one on the bird cut flowers in the home. feeder near the front of the Parents Retreat, one mixing with a purple cordatum (heart one just behind the retreat giving flame pea). The bright orangy red what looks like two colours on one flowers are all through the gardens. plant. Another beauty is trying to Each plant only lives 10+ years, out-flower a Banksia ericifolia up but they re-seed well and ours are near the scary triffid. all re-seeds now. We leave them to grow unless they are totally in the So come and visit our gardens soon. Chorizema cordatum along path wrong place. – Alec

2 Zanthorrea Nursery Bush Telegraph No 83 Spring 2009 Wonderful Wildflowers Many of the beautiful local species In the vege garden flowering in the bush at the moment What to plant now. are available at the nursery for you Spring is an exciting time in the to have in your garden. vege garden. The lettuce and silverbeet are plentiful, the broccoli prolific and the beetroot is ready to pull up.

Grevillea olivacea Try Grevillea olivacea as a tough, quick screening plant that birds love; Thryptomene saxicola as a Hypocalymma angustifolium drought tolerant, showy small shrub; We have good stocks of Anigozanthos ‘Rampaging Roy Hypocalymma angustifolium, Slaven’ for a strong growing strappy Conostylis candicans, Verticordia kangaroo paw with a bright orange plumosa, Hardenbergia flower and Eremophila glabra x comptoniana, Melaleuca fulgens, decipiens for a low, spreading shrub Thysanotus multiflorus, Dampiera that will power through the coming And best of all it is time to plant coronata and others. summer. those summer favourites - tomatoes. – Dan There is a huge range of tomatoes available. Look out for ‘Tumbling Ted’ that suits hanging baskets. Grafted tomatoes require stakes especially in windy spots, but reward with very long fruiting and often fruiting into the next year. Other plants to put in now include: eggplant, cucumbers, zuccinis and pumpkins if you have plenty of room. When the weather warms up plant corn and melons. Conostylis candicans I like to plant letuce all year round We are great advocates of planting and find cos is the best variety in the species that are local to your area Hypocalymma ‘Coconut Ice’ hot weather. Some gardeners like to as they are ideally suited to the shelter the lettuce from the hot sun local soil and benefit local birds and winds with a little shade cloth. and insects. Spring is a great time to Silverbeet can be planted all year really take notice of what grows in round if watered each day, and bushland in your area. Ask nursery asian greens such as bok-choy crop staff for help choosing the right quickly and are fantastic for stir plants. fries. We are also stocked up on many – Jackie currently flowering species that whilst perhaps not local, will still thrive in either the hills or the coastal PS: My birthday present from Alec plain, will benefit local wildlife and this spring... 4 bales of pea hay, and enhance your garden environment. an Aerobin composter. It couldn’t Hardenbergia comptoniana be better!

Zanthorrea Nursery 3 Bush Telegraph No 83 Spring 2009 New gifts to delight Putumayo World Music their beautifully illustrated cards from Embellish “Putumayo world music including designs featuring ‘Monthly Wall decoration art, alert frogs and is guaranteed to make you feel notes for the garden’ currently in paperweights, which are made from good” Dan Storper, Founder/CEO stock are September, October and glass and feature Australian owls, Putumayo world music November. $4.95 Other cards frogs and dragonflies. Each come feature recipes like yummy ‘Sweet Zanthorrea now stocks a range of beautifully packaged in their own orange jam’. CD’s featuring beautiful music from snug fitted box $14.95 around the world, titles include We also have a range of note Acoustic France, Music from Wine pads entitled ‘Jam Tales, preserved Lands, Tango, World Lounge and memories’ Printed in Australia many more...at $29.95 each. on 100% recycled paper using vegetable based inks. $13.95

Jason Products Made in New Zealand. An exciting new range of placemats and coasters featuring Australian flora and fauna and Aboriginal dreaming designs. • 6-set of A gentle reminder that Christmas coaster isn’t far away and we have many Since 1993, Putumayo has $18.95 more exciting gifts heading our way, contributed more than $1 million • 6-set of keep an eye peeled... to non-profit organisations, such as placemats – Lorretta Search for Common Ground, which $39.95 do good work in the regions where the music originates. Yates Nature’s Way A four placemat and eight coaster The first seven customers to buy set featuring two designs, leaf Yates Nature’s Way a Putumayo CD will receive a free and bark montage and natural insect & mite killer sampler CD. field $24.95 Natrasoap Gun is an easy to use soap Red Tractor A set of four, fun ladybird glass based spray for coasters come in a wonderfully control of mites, crafted wooden box $18.95 aphids, thrips, mealy Other new products include.. bug and whitefly on from Annabel Trends fruit trees, vegetables, ornaments and pot A new range of plants. drawer sachets, t-towels and eye Natrasoap is low toxic for you and pillows covered in your garden, biodegradable and a bold Australiana non-residual, with no withholdling The ever popular designs of Jams period on food crops. Tales and Red Tractor, both of which print. $9.95 - – Muriel are inspired by rural life, are back $14.95 in stock. We have a great range of

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