BushNo 62 Winter 2004 Telegraph

Welcome What’s on at Zanthorrea? Greetings Three awards at Garden Week! Gardening Talks It’s time for gardeners to pull on the Write these dates in your diary, and wellies and get out into the garden! join Jackie and friends for a cuppa Winter is the season to and and a chat. forget, as the refreshing winter rains will care for our new plantings. The nursery is full of fresh , all the old favourites and many new releases. Our talented team have inspiring display to entice you to plant Australian plants, so come Sue, Designer of Garden Week Display and visit soon. Happy gardening! The efforts of Sue, ably assisted by Alec and the team, resulted in – Jackie Alec and the team Zanthorrea taking off three awards New plants from old: Cuttings at the recent ‘Garden Week’ – “Best Congratulations Zanthorrea There are many benefits of growing Landscaped Display”, “2nd ‘Best plants from cuttings. It’s a little NATIONAL WINNER Display’, and “Most Educational tricky so let Alec show you how it’s Informative Display”. done. Go to our website for more pictures Saturday 26th June 10am of Sue’s award winning display. Frog friendly gardens Frog are found in gardens which provide a good habitat and freedom from predators. Find out what you can do to create a frog friendly garden Ross and Alec accepting the award Saturday 24th July, 10am Zanthorrea was recently judged “Best Medium Garden Centre in Winter wildflower walk Australia, 2004”. Wrap up warm against the cold, Winners were announced at The Blue Room, inpired by coastal living for a winter bushwalk to see what the Nursery and Garden Industry is flowering in the Gooseberry Hill Association (NGIA) conference on National Park. Join us afterwards for the Gold Coast. Alec and Ross were hot cocoa and cookies. there at the Gala Dinner at Jupiters Saturday 21st August, 10am to accept the award. (“Someone had to do it”, says Alec.) Help is available We have a list of recommended horticulturists who can design your New Staff Member! garden or simply consult (fee for Welcome to Annette, our newest service). Send a SAE or goto the team member! Annette is a The Orange Room featured elements of the website for details. horticulturist with a keen interest Australian bush. in native plants, and a flourishing Envirobag native garden at home. Say No to plastic and Yes to our new envirobag, for $2 only.

Zanthorrea Nursery 1 Bush Telegraph No 62 Winter 2004 What’s Flowering Now Kanyana Heaven scent Blue lechenaultia Plant of the Month Boronias are now found in many Our support for Kanyana Wildlife forms such as ‘Jack McGuires’ red, Centre continues with $1 from the ‘Lutea’ - lemon, and the compact sale of a select plant being donated. ‘Heaven Scent’. Although they can The current plant of the month be short lived and fussy, boronias is the WA heart flame pea, bring such joy with their exquisite cordatum. fragrance, every gardener should try some. I find they do very well in a large pot on the patio.

Dancing Queen and friends As well as all the old favourite Geraldton waxes - ‘Purple Pride’, ‘Meringur Mist’ and ‘CWA pink’, If you live in the hills this blue there are now many new generation flowered gem is easy to grow, hybrids and selected forms. especially in light shade. Once established, it will sucker and make Heart leaf flame pea itself at home in your garden. It The heart leaf flame pea is a big looks great in a hanging basket. seller at this time of year, with its Pluming marvelous! racemes of orange / red pea flowers Our latest home grown beauties held above the lush green foliage. It include two unusual grevilleas. is easy to grow in any well drained soil, fairly fast to one metre, but as with many small fast growing White plume grevillea (Grevillea shrubs, may only live 7 to 10 leucopteris) is often called “smelly years. During that time it will have socks” after the strong flower odour. produced many seeds and seedlings This grevillea is fast growing to 2.5m pop up now and then to replace the with long arching flower spikes that parent. carry rusty coloured buds, opening Choose a position that has light to large fluffy cream flowers in Chamelaucium ‘Purple Pride’ shade at least some of the day. A spring. (Look for these along Tonkin Soft pink flowered ‘Dancing good soak once a month or more Hwy near Kewdale Road.) Queen’ is a beauty and the first wax will encourage healthy growth. Fresh 140mm pots are $9.95 with double flowers. ‘Madonna’, Plant with a shovel full of soil ‘Blondie’ and ‘Sweet Sixteen’ ‘Ofir’ improver and a teaspoon of are hybrid forms of Chamelaucium, Grevillea pteridifolia, from the Osmocote to ensure quick growth. and ‘Jaspar’ is a cross generic tropics, Kimberleys to Queensland, hybrid from Chamelaucium and grows quickly to 3m plus with Verticordia. large orange flowers autumn to mid summmer. Plant this beauty where Native wisteria you can give it a deep soaking once As well as the dark purple local a fortnight and use plenty of organic form, there are many varieties of material when planting to keep it the eastern states Hardenbergias, growing strongly. in ‘Edna Walling Snow-white, (G. pteridifolia is one of the parents ‘Free and Easy’, ‘Bushy Blue’, ‘Mini of well known hybrid Grevillea Alec with Chorizema cordatum Haha’. Grow them up a fence ‘Honey Gem’.) or as a sprawling shrub in your Great looking plants are available 140mm pot $11.50 wildflower garden. now at $7.95 and $8.95. – Alec

2 Zanthorrea Nursery Bush Telegraph No 62 Winter 2004 What to do in the winter garden Time to… • Seedling WA daisies: Several Easy ones to try: • Fertilise wisely by choosing slow varieties of WA daisies are now • Helipterum roseum (Everlastings) release fertiliser or going organic available in punnets. Look for • Hakea species ‘Crimson Splash, ‘Polka Dots’, and using a little sheep manure or • species blood & bone. ‘Yellow Dreaming’ and ‘Pink Sunrays’. The following require hot water • Watch out for snails: Multiguard Plant these as you would other treatment: is an iron compound, and is a fauna bedding plants, with a little soil • Hardenbergia comptoniana safe way to control these pests. Or, improver and use Seasol every few (Native Wisteria) place some stale beer or similar in weeks. Create your own wildflower a Snail Jail, and lure the critters to a • Chorizema cordatum (Heart leaf show in spring. drunken end. flame pea) • Acacia species (Wattles) Left: Multiguard Snail & Slug Propagation from seed Killer It’s easy to grow your own plants from seed. It will save you money Below: Snail Jail and is great fun. What you need: • Propagation or Seed Raising mix • Clean sterile containers with drainage holes • Seed collected from healthy plants, or from packets. Easy to grow Everlastings • Continue to plant with compost • Smoked water for hard to or soil improver to ensure your germinate seeds. Roo Proof garden will survive the dry summer. What to do: Many thanks to the gardeners who • Plant a tree: After the heat of 1. Fill pot within 2cms of top. Tamp sent in their lists of roo proof plants. summer, plant a tree strategically down. It seems there aren’t many plants to give summer shade without 2. Treat hard seed such as wattles which kangaroo won’t eat. blocking the winter sun. Trees can and pea flowers by pouring on very Aromatic and prickly shrubs are reduce summer temperatures by up hot water and leave overnight. the last to be munched, but by late to 10 degrees. 3. Spread seed across surface. (Tip: summer in dry conditions, roos will • Time to plant vegies: cabbage Mix very fine seed with clean sand eat almost anything. silverbeet spinach and broccoli, to ensure even spread.) These plants appear to be roo proof: baby carrots turnips and leek, 4. Lightly cover with more mix to • Native Daphne (Philotheca spp.) potatoes, strawberries, lettuce and the depth of the seed. Alec likes to parsley, peas and broad beans. • Prickly Moses (Acacia pulchella) use 3mm fine blue metal to cover • Geraldton wax (Chamelaucium) seeds as it absorbs heat and prevents • Emu bush (Eremophila maculata) water splash from bouncing seeds • Grevillea ‘Superb’ out of their pots. • Native rosemary (Westringia 5. Water with a fine spray and fruticosa) place in a warm spot. (We spray • Hakea laurina with smoked water diluted 1:10) For a detailed list, go to the website 6. Once seeds have germinated, (www.zanthorrea.com.au), or send and have true , prick out a SAE to Jackie at Zanthorrea, and into individual pots. (Use potting we will send you the list compiled mix that has a little slow release from Bush Telegraph readers’ Newly planted Silverbeet fertiliser.) findings.

Zanthorrea Nursery 3 Bush Telegraph No 62 Winter 2004 Wild & Woolly Winter!

Snugeze: Warm your toes after a cold day in the garden. Treat yourself or a friend to a woolly winter. $31.95

Premium Slogger Clogs: Brightly coloured, cute and comfortable clogs, perfect for the garden. Just slip them on, slip them off! $54.95 in sage green or cranberry.

Dandy Lion herbals Enjoy the comfort of aromatic spices with your hot cocoa. Set 4 Mug Mats $20.45 and Hot Pot Mat for the teapot, $18.95.

Rum Toddy Soap Avoid the hangover, enjoying the comforting warmth of a rum toddy soap. Also available in contreau, and sambucca $8.95

Handmade children’s hats Dress up wild and keep warm in these quirky hats, available in an assortment of colours and designs. $19.95

Bobtail skink As seen at Ecotopia, now found sleeping at Zanthorrea. Durable and realistic at $28.95 each.

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