BushNo 81 Autumn 2009 Telegraph Welcome What’s News? Garden Talks Hello again Garden Week 16th to 21st April Australian plants in pots Don’t miss Garden Week at Perry Join Ross for a talk and Lakes. There’s much to see and do demonstration on growing for garden lovers. Say hi to the team Australian plants in containers. Ross from Zanthorrea at our display. will discuss varieties that suit pots including the elusive wollemis and Pot Recycling also show off some Aussie bonsai. As the price of recycled plastic Sunday April 26th, 10am, gazebo. has fallen sharply, the company RSVP to secure your place. collecting old pots has removed the (Entry: Gold coin to Kanyana.) collection bin, and we are no longer Autumn is our favourite time of able to accept used pots. the year. The garden comes to life, Fortunately there are several options the bird song in the mornings is available and we are currently in deafening and the cooler weather is discussion with another company perfect for gardening. who collect plastic pots and use This issue of Bush Tele features our the material to form handsome new top ten plants for 2009, a display pots. garden update from Alec, and Watch this space. Diana’s tips on growing Australian plants in hanging baskets. The production team have been Sustainable Vege Gardening. busy all summer growing plants Growing food is growing in for the autumn rush, and Ross is popularity. How wonderful to pick delighted that we can now offer fresh organically grown produce plants in compostable pots. (Look from your own plot. Jackie will for the muted coloured pots.) share information about no-dig The nursery is chock full of fresh gardening, composting and what to plants and lovely giftware and pots, plant in winter. so come and visit very soon. Saturday 23rd May, 10am, gazebo. Best wishes from Alec and Jackie RSVP to secure your place. and the team at Zanthorrea. (Entry: Gold coin to Kanyana.) PS: Happy Easter! Congratulations to our Winners And for the children… Congratualtions Heather and Frank Welcome Janine and Jolene Pot up a pansy for Mother’s Day Mussell of Kalamunda, winners We welcome two talented of our Yummy Yards Christmas Saturday 9th May, 10am - 12 noon horticulturists to help you plan your hamper. Pssst! Dads - Call in anytime autumn garden: Janine who joins us between 10am from Fraser Garden Centre and Jolene and 12 noon and who served her apprenticeship with bring the kids to the Perth Zoo. Janine and Jolene pot up a pansy for have both completed SGA training mum. We’ll help so, like all the Zan team, can assist you wrap your gift. with queries on sustainable and Surprise mum! waterwise gardening. $2 donation. Zanthorrea Nursery 1 Bush Telegraph No 81 Autumn 2009 Garden News and Views News from the Display Garden Compost - helping save the planet! Another large bit of garden art “Approximately 60% of the rubbish has turned up in the shape of a Australians put in the everyday 5m trifid. Although he looks fierce, mixed-waste ‘garbage bin’ could don’t be afraid as his stumpy legs be put to better use in the garden are staked into the ground! You will as compost and could be returned see him glaring at you from behind to agricultural land to improve soil the children’s playground. quality. Alarmingly, such a huge amount of Beaufortia aestiva organically-active material buried The red cap gum (Eucalyptus ‘anaerobically’ (without air) in erythrocorys) has been showing off landfill causes over 3% of Australia’s well. total greenhouse gas emissions annually by producing methane: a gas with 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide! If properly composted instead, this same organic waste could help to abate climate change in yet another way: by sinking or ‘sequestering’ carbon back into the soil. And if combating climate change with compost isn’t impressive Eucalyptus erythrocorys enough, using compost on land Our rare but scruffy Eucalyptus reduces the need for water by an roycei is flowering opposite the average of 30%!” lawn area and the Hakea laurina is Information from: about to start. www.compostweek.com.au There is a good example of hard pruning (very hard!) with the Grevillea Only a few plants have been ‘Moonlight’ near our delivery gate flowering lately so it’s a time for coming back gangbusters after an pruning and tidying. We have started early January chop off. a bit of planting with a garden next to the trolley bay. These plants will lightly screen our new office building. Planting at this time of year gives lots of satisfaction - quick establishment in the heat - but only Samara and aerobin if you can get water to the plants May 3rd to May 10th is International any days over 35 degrees. Composting Awareness Week. Beaufortias have been flowering The major objective of ICAW is well, with the Beaufortia aestiva to encourage everyone to actively coming to the end of its run, while divert organic waste from landfill. the local Beaufortia squarrosa is The ‘Moonlight’ closer to the road For more information about in full flower...Check it out near was more mildly pruned in late composting, visit: the new “trifid”. Beaufortia sparsa spring and is now coming into is a shy flowerer in Perth but ours flower. http://www.compostweek.com.au/ have put on a few good blooms this composting_at_home.php Good planting! – Alec autumn. 2 Zanthorrea Nursery Bush Telegraph No 81 Autumn 2009 Fabulous Flora Australian Plants in Hanging Baskets For hot spots: Top Ten Have you ever thought of using our • Grevillea lanigera - pink / cream After much deliberation, we have fabulous flora in hanging baskets? • Grevillea nudiflora - red settled on a new Top 10 list of • Use a premium potting mix such • Grevillea ‘Molongolo’ - yellow plants. This is always a tough task since we have so many wonderful as Baileys or Native Plant Soil. • Grevillea ‘Pink Midget’ - pink plants available. The aim of the Top • Like all hanging baskets, they • Hibbertia vestita - yellow 10 is to suggest plants that will grow will require daily watering in • Eremophila biserrata - orange reliably in a range of soils, from the hot weather, but are a little more coast to the hills and will be hardy, forgiving if you forget a day. • Myoporum spp - white or pink • Hemiandra pungens- purple rewarding and reliable in your • Fertilise twice a year with a slow garden with a minimum of work. • Acacia howittii ‘Green Wave’ release fertiliser like Macrocote. The Top 10 are especially suitable Small baskets will only hold one Have fun! – Diana for the novice gardener or for those plant but with larger baskets you who just want a good plant that can mix and match 2 or 3 plants. does its thing with little fuss. We Grevillea ‘Pink Midget’ goes well have tried to include at least one with Myoporum parvifolium or ground-cover, small shrub, large Hibbertia vestita. Large baskets will shrub, screening plant and tree in take the smaller varieties of Kangaroo the Top 10 so there is a plant to suit paws such as Anigozanthos ‘Bush almost all situations. The Top 10 is Pearl’, and these go well with as follows (in no particular order): Hibbertia vestita and Scaevola • Anigozanthos ‘Big Red’ aemula. Kanyana Plant of the Month • Eremophila ‘Kalbarri Carpet’ For spots with morning sun: Correa ‘Dusky Bells’ • Baeckea virgata Miniature • Scaevola aemula - mauve This beauty is one of the hardiest • Lomandra ‘Tanika’ • Hibbertia obtusifolia - yellow of the correas, and tolerates sun or • Grevillea ‘Frosty Pink’ • Dampiera diversifolia - blue shade, sand or clay soils. Its dusky • Grevillea olivacea • Thomasia pygmaea - mauve pink flowers feed the birds from as • Calothamnus quadrifidus • Volia hederacea - mauve & white early as February each year. Growing • Ricinocarpus tuberculatus • Myoporum spp - white / pink to around 60cm high and 80cm across, ‘Dusky Bells’ are fantastic (Wedding Bush) • Kennedia microphylla - red in an Australian cottage garden or • Hakea laurina (Pin-Cushion • Brachysema latifolium - red even a large pot or hanging basket. Hakea) • Stylidium graminifolium - pink $1 from the sale of each Correa • Eucalyptus torquata Hakea laurina ‘Dusky Bells’ goes to Kanyana Look out for the STAR denoting a Wildlife Centre to help the new Top 10 plant on your next visit volunteers care for sick and injured to the nursery. – Dan Stylidium graminifolium wildlife. Zanthorrea Nursery 3 Bush Telegraph No 81 Autumn 2009 Mother’s Day - 10th May What’s new? Look no further for ideas for a Windchimes Yilgarn traders Heirloom seeds special gift for the mum, nan and Carefully tuned windchimes from NEW NEW NEW! grandma in your life. Tubular Bells create wonderful Collected form the Drylands Proudly Australian made. music. 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