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TM BushNo 123 Spring 2019 Telegraph Welcome! What’s On Spring Wildflowers You don’t have to go way out bush to enjoy the stunning WA wildflowers. Jorgensen Park is just out from Kalamunda CBD, it is the start of the Bibbulmun track and backs onto the National Park. Jorgensen Park itself is dog friendly and has a lot of beautiful walks. It used to be a golf course, but off into the scrubs are some excellent Spring is a special time of year, wildflowers! especially if you are a wildflower enthusiast. There is just so much to see, and we are spoilt with all Building a Native Bee House the walks and flower trails on our Making native bee accommodation doorstep. If you don’t like to travel, can be fun. Join us to learn how to why not grow your own wildflowers encourage native bees into your in the home garden or in pots on garden and provide a nesting area for them. Janine will give a hands the balcony. We have plenty of nice Riley enjoying the wildflower trail with an on demonstration using recycled plants coming into flower this spring Isopogon dubius. including the showy Kangaroo and upcycled bits and pieces. Paws. 10am Saturday the 12th of Have a most enjoyable spring, October. Ross, Jackie, Alec and the team. Gold coin donation to Kanyana. RSVP: 08 9454 6260 Hypocalymma robustum Creating a Fairy Garden Welcome Ben to the Team! Kennedia coccinea Join Janine to learn how to create We would like to extend a warm and maintain a miniature fairy welcome to Ben who joins us on For more local wildflowers walks garden, including which plants will the team at Zanthorrea. He brings check out these locations: Maida work well and how to attract fairies with him experience and a passion Vale Reserve, Pipehead Dam, with mini landscapes. Learn how to for native plants and has previously Lesmurdie Falls top and bottom, make and create your own garden. worked at Kings Park. Bold Park. 10am Saturday the 16th of Congratulations Danielle on your For the hills plant ID’s download November. new baby girl, Grace! We wish you the ‘Local Flora and Bushlands’ Gold coin donation to Kanyana. all the best on your year of maternity publication from the Shire of leave. Mundaring website. - Ross RSVP: 08 9454 6260 Zanthorrea Nursery 1 Bush Telegraph No 123 Spring 2019 Three Top Genus Grevilleas Grevillea synapheae Callistemon ‘Western Glory’ The grevillea flowers are known for The Catkin grevillea is a local one Western Glory is a selection of their bird attracting properties. They to the Perth hills and a unique little Callistemon citrinus, and has vibrant have a diverse range of uses: from plant. It forms a small shrub of mauve - pink flowers from spring to groundcover, hedge to shade tree. prickly foliage and has sweet cream summer. They grow between 2m - yellow flowers in spirng. Grows to 4m high and 2m-3m wide. We have 0.5m to 1m high and wide. a full size plant in the gardens near Looking for the largest grevillea: try the trolley bay and it is just getting Grevillea robusta, the tallest one is ready to show us just how colourful 40m! You can expect around 12m - the flowers are! 20m in Perth soils. Callistemon - Bottlebrush The bottlebrush family is a versatile genus that can grow in a variety of Grevillea ‘Cherry Pie’ different soil types, full sun or part This grevillea is a hybrid of G. shade. They are not sensitive to longistyla and G. elegans, and has high P fertilisers. In short they are a ripe cherry red flowers. It is also tough plant for non gardeners. They a tough performer in the garden, can be a little slower growing, so Callistemon ‘Little John’ growing to 2m high in sun or part sometimes it is worth giving them Now this one is one of the oldest shade. Also useful for hedging. a little extra fertiliser and water in selections of bottlebrush around. In summer to speed them up. fact we have a 20 year old tree in the garden, but don’t be fooled, it has been pruned right down to the ground and is now a lovely 50cm ball! Little John is long flowering and bird attracting. Kangaroo Paws One of my favourite plants to plant in spring is the Kangaroo Paw! Grevillea ‘New Blood’ Callistemon ‘Hot Pink’ Water and feed well leading up to Christmas to be rewarded by a A beautiful ground cover with large A compact, rounded shrub that stunning display of colour. There red flowers autumn to spring. This flowers prolifically with these are many to choose from, including form of G. juniperina will form a bright pink flowers in spring and dwarf 50cm ‘Bush Fling’ to tall 1.5m dense green foliage, 1.5m wide then again in autumn. Great for Anigozanthos flavidus varieties. Just by 25cm high. They also make an informal hedges or screens, or even be careful with the black Kangaroo excellent pot speciment hanging as a feature plant in the middle of Paw as it doesn’t like as much over the edge. groundcovers. Grows to 2m high. fertiliser as the other varieties. Callistemon ‘Western Glory’ Anigozanthos ‘Yellow Gem’ Grevillea synapheae 2 Zanthorrea Nursery Bush Telegraph No 123 Spring 2019 Spring Gardening In Ground Worm Tunnel Planting Vegetables for Spring We all want to Did you know some vegetables do our bit for grow better together with other the environment vegetables. If you have room to do and reduce our multiple garden beds, why not try food waste to the following combinations. Kanyana Plant of the Month landfill, but we Tomato and Basil - Also goes well Every month we choose a new don’t all have together on toast. plant to be Kanyana Plant of the room or time for Capsicum and Chilli - Just Month. $1 from the sale of each a compost bin. remember which is which, or have plant will go to the Kanyana Wildlife That is when an a fiery surprise. Rehabilitation Centre where they inground worm Lettuce and Carrots - feed with tend to sick and injured Australian tunnel can be plenty of manure and mulch with animals. For the month of October, a great option! Lupin mulch or pea straw. we have chosen the Eucalyptus Here are the simple steps to build pulverulenta. It makes a lovely your own: small gum tree with silver foliage. 1) Drill holes (at least 10mm drill The foliage can be used to make an bit) in the side of a 150mm piece of orange-brown dye. pvc pipe and bury this in the ground with 10 cm sticking out above. 2) Add a heavy lid to keep vermin out or pvc cement a screw cap on. 3) Pop your scraps in daily. There you have it a DIY worm When planting out a vegetable tunnel! Bury multiple around the garden, be sure to improve the soil, garden so you can alternate the as this will give you a much better scraps for the worms. For more crop. Sandy soils will benefit from information check out Angus’s a clay or ‘Sand Remedy’ product Qualup Bells website. www.gardeningwithangus. being added, and then plenty of They might have finished their com.au and follow the links. soil improver and manure to enrich main flowering now, but planting a it. Once you have a nice rich soil, - Kelly Pimelea physodes now will give you it is good to note that fruiting veges an amazing flowering show for next may need extra Potassium, and year! These are grafted so they will leafy veges like some extra nitrogen be a stronger, longer lasting plant. added. The other way around can have a negative effect on crops. $54.95 in a 200mm pot. Kids love gardening... The Melaleuca violacea prostrate Is a beautiful low shrub, and one of the best Australian native plants to turn into a Bonsai. Responds well to pruning and flowers on old wood. Available in 140mm pots -$12.95. Zanthorrea Nursery 3 Bush Telegraph No 123 Spring 2019 Spring Gift Ideas long-time friend and Eucalypt enthusiast Dean Nicolle to produce this book which features detailed photography and plant information features for identification and interest. Available now and in the shop for $49.95. Call to reserve a copy. We congratulate Danielle on her beautiful baby girl, and welcome Rose to the role of gift buying. If you are chasing any special orders from our range in the gift shop, feel free to pop in for a chat with Rose. Zanthorrea stocks a range of folding re-usable shopping bags. Currently Back in stock: Santaleuca’s Sandalwood we have some fun jungle print roasted nut treats. designs at $14.95 each. Folding down into a tiny pouch, I always keep at least one in my handbag,. Also coming soon to the shop are sets of produce bags: a convenient way to pack your groceries at the An Oldie but a Goldie supermarket. Set of 5 for $22.95. Have you seen Oddball’s Aussie New Book - Eucalypts of Western Animal Cookie Cutters in our shop? New! Earrings by Perth design Australia: The South West Coast We have been selling these for company: Future Shelter and Ranges years! A great gift for creative kids Designed and crafted in Perth from By Malcolm and a bargain at $7.95. Australian Allocasuarina fraseriana (Sheoak) French and made too! timber, each pair is unique. Designs Dean Nicolle. include Waxflower, Wattle, Swan Enviro-conscious Gifts How well do and Quokka.
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