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Garden talk Issue 2, 2016 INSIDE Pruning for rose and fruit trees • NEW bird feeders • Designing with houseplants Waterwise gardens • The magical ‘Pot Marigold’ • Scentsational Yankee Candles Promise The Spring of exciting offers inside

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Gardentalk Issue 2, 2016

INSIDE Pruning for rose and fruit trees • NEW bird feeders • Designing with houseplants Waterwise gardens • The magical ‘Pot Marigold’ • Scentsational Yankee Candles

Promise The

Springofexciting offers inside

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Online: gardenshop.co.zaCall 0861 G-A-R-D-E-N (427336)Email us on [email protected]

Connect with GardenShop! Daily gardening posts, updates on new plants, trending gardening ideas and seasonal pictures from our garden centres.

Anticipate the promise of spring with our first GardenTalk brought to you in winter. We hope to energise you to discover the joy and excitement of preparing and getting your garden spring-ready.

In this edition we explore the basic techniques of rose and fruit pruning, both essential gardening tasks that will allow for

better flower and fruit production. GardenTalk also brings you a smorgasbord of hardy flowering plants that are well suited to planting now for splashes of colour in spring and for many of us looking for waterwise plants, we have a perfect planting combination to inspire.

Be sure to shop at Weber’s retail shop at GardenShop Flora Farm, with future anticipated satellite stores at GardenShop Bryanston and GardenShop Broadacres. Expanding on all your outdoor loves, GardenShop brings you their new range of bird feed and bird feeders.

Save up to 25% with our coupons valid until the end of August 2016.

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Fruit tree pruning made easy Essential winter pruning advice

Creating beautiful scents Fabulous Yankee Candles are a decor delight for your home

Love the environment, please recycle this copy of GardenTalk after you have read it!

Editor’s lettter

healthy soil = healthy plants = healthy people

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Wheels of WonderDelosperma ‘Ice Plant’

Uncompromising flower colours with superb waterwise qualities for South African gardens.

• Grow in full sun but can tolerate some light shade in the garden.• Ice plants are succulents and will grow well in poor soil. Be careful in winter to not allow the soil to

become too wet as this is likely to kill the plants. • In areas where the soil stays consistently dry, this plant can become invasive,

so it is best to take this into consideration when planting it. • Established ice plants require little maintenance. As succulents, they need very little watering

and thrive in drought-like conditions.• Require no fertilising!

• The following varieties of Wheels of Wonder Ice Plants are available: Hotpink, Golden, Fire and White

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The Rubber fig, also called the Rubber plant, in the fig genus, native to northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia has magnificent dark, large green leaves and will bring the retro mood right back into your living spaces.

The ‘Mother-in-law’s Tongue’, the very low-maintenance Sansevieria, native to the tropics of West Africa is a great indoor plant for homeowners looking for a plant that is very easy to look after. If you forget about it, don’t stress; these plants can go for a month without water. The Sansevieria plant likes bright light with at least some direct sun for several hours a day, however it will still grow in any position as long as it’s not deep shade and will make for a great architectural look planted in glassware.

Designing with houseplants

Whether it’s a terrarium, a living wall or an indoor planter, people are becomin g more interested in treating a pot plant as a small-scale landscap e.

Mother-in-law’s TongueRubber plant

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Reflections Pink Argyranthemum Reflections

This novelty colour complements the Maderia series and delights with vigorous performance, producing large single flowers, measuring approximately 5cm. Lovely pink daisies, flowering in repeated flushes throughout summer and autumn. Beautiful in containers to brighten up a sunny patio, or as a garden plant in borders and beds, to provide colourful accent splashes through the seasons.

Height: 35-45cm. Width: 35-45cm

Think pink!

GardenValueR39.95

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Calendula ‘Pot Marigold’

In the garden:These bright and cheerful orange and yellow flowers will liven up any garden, patio and other sunny outdoor spaces. It flowers from late autumn, throughout the winter and into early summer. They are ideal in beds, as borders, and for container gardening. Pot Marigolds are also known to attract butterflies and other beneficial insects to the garden, and if planted in big groups are a magnet for bees.

It is a good companion plant for winter vegetable crops of Cauliflower, Broccoli, Broad Beans and Cabbage.

Interesting facts: • The name Calendula is a modern

Latin diminutive of calendae, meaning ‘little calendar’, ‘little clock’ or possibly ‘little weather-glass’.

• The common name ‘Marigold’ refers to the Virgin Mary.

• Marigolds have been grown in the gardens of Europe since the 12th century. By the 14th century, many had learned of its many and varied ‘magical powers’.

• One medieval author named Macer described Marigold in his volume on herbs and thought that merely to look upon the blooms would improve eyesight and draw evil ‘humors’ from the head.

Calendula tinctures, creams and washes are often applie d to skin to help burns and bruises, and also helps cuts to heal faster. Professional homeopaths often recommend using creams with Calendula to help first-degree burns.

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Serving up COLOUR Instant and will strike the right punch for spring are

Osteospermums and Pelargoniums.

Packed full of colour, they are well suited to just about any sunny area in the garden or patio.

Plant in garden beds and borders, rockeries and pots.

Osteospermum varieties

Pelargonium varieties

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Living Sculptural Agave We are in love with Agaves, they’re low maintenance, waterwis e, and strikingly sculptural. GardenShop’s premium collection of Agaves – already planted to take home.

CollectionGardenShop

R195

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There has never been a better time than now to grow your own fruit, vegetables and herbs.

If you want to enjoy great tasting, fresh food and save on monthly grocery bills, then start your kitchen garden now.

GardenShop has an ever increasing kitchen garden selection – from seasonal herb and salad plants, fruit trees, vegetable seedlings and berry plants.

Sunlight is essential when starting your own kitchen garden as sunlight brings out the essential oils and flavours of your plants.

Prepare your soil well with compost, bonemeal and organic fertilisers and get creative with layouts and designs. For smaller spaces consider growing your own kitchen garden in Urban Wooden Boxes, wooden crates, window boxes or hanging baskets.

The edible garden

Slab of Deliciousness: Available at GardenShop

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Even though July is still chilly, the good news is there are cold-hardy herbs and veggies that can be planted now. Rosemary, thyme, rocket, chives and parsley tolerate low temperatures, provided they are planted in full sun. Veggies that can be planted include Spinach Bright Lights, Asian greens – Mizuna, Pak Choi, Tatsoi, and Giant Red Mustard – or salad and stir fry mixes consisting of mixed Lettuce, Rocket, and Asian mustard greens (Mizuna, Tatsoi, Red Frills).

Like the herbs, these veggies are available as more established plants in individual pots and will withstand the cold better.

Cold weather tips:• Plants must get at least six hours of sun a day.• Enrich the soil with plenty of compost so soil is

friable, drains well but also retains water.• Transplant as early as possible so plants can

revive before cold night temperatures.• Mulch around plants with dry leaves, bark

chips or peanut shells to keep soil moist.• Use frost cloth, especially while plants are

becoming established.• Water as early as possible in the day so leaves

are dry by nightfall.• Feed plants once a month with a kelp-based

feed to strengthen plant cells to resist the cold.For more information: visit www.healthyliving-herbs.co.za

Get set for spring

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1. Lawn Care: Whether the winter has been mild or frosty the lawn will always respond well to a bit of TLC. And remember: healthy roots are the best foundation for a thriving lawn.

Established lawns should get a topdressing of Fertilis Earthworm Castings at 250ml (1 cup) and 100g Vita Green 5:1:5(16) organic fertilizer per m2 to condition soil and promote healthy leaf cover.

New or problem lawns - like hard or uneven soil, a poor knit or prone to weeds - should be spiked with a garden fork or on large areas hire a spiked roller from a lawnmower shop before spreading a top dressing layer of about 1 cm of a mixture of 1/3 good quality (weed free) topsoil

TIP: Don’t use builders sand which is too gritty and abrasive for delicate new grass stems, 1/3 Fertilis Earthworm Castings and 1/3 compost finely sifted. Add into topdressing mixture per m2 to be covered, a 100g VITA Grow 2:3:2(16) and 200g of Agricultural Lime (Dolomitic Lime). This will form a tight knit lawn which will smother out weeds and prevent weed seed from germinating.

Lawns on tight clay should be conditioned as for problem lawns except for substituting Gypsum for the Agricultural Lime which will break open the tight bonds of the soil particles by adjusting the chemistry.

The promise of a spring romance!

The promise of a spring garden with fresh new leaves unfolding, the scent of jasmine wafting through the air, blossoms on the fruit trees and rose buds bursting open are motivation enough to inspire the passionate gardener to kit up for a bit of action and help nature to craft the best garden ever! Jenny Slabber from Talborne Organics shares some advice.

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2. Pruning and Shaping: This is the garden’s equivalent of the home spring clean. Out with the old, dead branches and roots as pruning stimulates the formation of new roots and branches on which new growth and buds develop. While deciduous trees, shrubs and roses look dormant on top they are very busy energising in the root zone and preparing for the spring boost which is known as the Sap Rising period.

TIP: Don’t delay, start mid-July and finish by end-July as a result of climate change Gauteng winters are milder and warmer, so once the buds appear pruning is too stressful for the plant.

3. Fertilise: Immediately after pruning the roots require nourishment to regenerate. Talborne organic fertiliser is the ideal choice for this winter conditioning as it does not burn roots and leaves of plants as nutrients are released over a period of at least 4 months, and it contains:

N:P:K and the full spectrum of the other nutrients essential for healthy, productive plants.

Flower, herb and vegetable beds (planted or newly prepared beds) sprinkle 100g of VITA Grow 2:3:2(16) per m2 and 125g per rose or shrub and 250ml/1 cup of Fertilis Earthworm Castings. Fruit and ornamental trees spread 500g to 2kg of VITA Grow 2:3:2(16) per tree and 250ml/1 cup per m2 of Fertilis Earthworm Castings (adjust for tree and container size).

TIP: Bonemeal is traditionally applied with pruning for supplementing Phosphate and Calcium, but as VITA Grow 2:3:2(16) has adequate included in the formulation do not add any extra Bonemeal.

4. Watering Programme: Water the beds, lawn and trees after applying the fertiliser to activate the soil life (microbes) which are responsible for the release of the nutrients from organic fertilizer for uptake by the plants. As the conditions warm up, adjust the watering program from once a week to 2 or 3 times a week as required.

TIP: VITA Organic fertiliser saves on water as nutrients are not bound to salts like old fashioned chemical fertilisers which have to be dissolved for uptake by osmosis. It’s also waterwise as plants and lawns will not burn if not watered immediately after application and there is no need to wait for heavy rainfall before you can fertilise the lawn. The usual watering program will be adequate to activate VITA without the threat of fertiliser burn.

The promise of a spring romance!

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Soon the spring romance in your garden will be just about your best gardening experience ever, so enjoy the fruits of your labour!

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Versatile, unique and exclusive to GardenShop

Flora Imports’ magnificent range of European and Asian imported pots – from countries including Italy, Germany, Thailand and Malaysia

– are a sight to behold.

Whether your penchant is for terracotta or a glazed finish, square-shaped, round, rectangular or something truly unique, the selection

affords you gardening creativity second -to-none. From simple to elaborate, the possibilities are limitless to help you

plant the perfect pot.

Their versatility in adding instant colour – whether you choose individual plants, mix-and-match varieties even vegetables and

herbs – means you can adapt your interior or exterior landscapes as seasons change too. And of course they provide bold focal points

in your garden - and even on balconies - and add to the design and architecture of your living space.

Visit GardenShop for your spring container makeovers.

Container Style

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GardenShop terracotta

Tall Pot16cmR59.95 Bowl

12cmR14.95

Bell Pot13cmR19.95

Azalea Pot15cmR34.95

Tall Pot14cmR39.95

Tall Pot16cmR59.95

• Many more sizes in store• (Excludes plants)

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Garden Birds

Small Seed BellFor Wild Birds 300gIngredients: Assorted grains and gelatineR65

Peanut BlockFor Wild Birds350gIngredients: Raw Peanuts and GelatineR65

Large Deluxe

Seed BellFor Wild Birds

750g

R95

Suet SlabsA high protein food for wild birdsIngredients : Fat and assorted grains250gR215

Nectar Mix High protein drink

1kg

R95

Exclusive GardenShop range of bird feeders and bird food.

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Raw PeanutsAn excellent

source of protein for wild

birds2kg

R145

Dual seed and peanut feeder

R495

Seed feeder R165Seed feeder R445

Peanut feederR165

Suet feederR225

Suet feeder R245

Other bird feeders available in store

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How to prune your fruit trees during winterThe key to keeping fruit trees both attractive and productive is to prune without the tree’s foliage in winter. This will make it easier to prune, as you can see what you are doing.There are three simple steps that work for the majority of fruit trees. Most of us are dealin g with stone fruits like peaches, apricots, plums and cherries – anything with a pit.

1 • Start by pruning away branches that are dead, damaged or diseased – known as the three ‘D’s.• Suckers, ‘waterspouts’ that are growing from the main branches must be removed.• With all of these clean up steps your cuts must be pruned flush to the main stem that they are growing from – don’t leave stubs.

CLEAN UP

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This will allow more light and air into the canopy which will boost fruit production and reduce problems with pests and diseases.• Start by removing any branches that are growing downward, criss-crossing with another branch or a branch that is growing towards the centre of the tree•Remove multiple branches competing with each other, two or more growing from a single crotch or at different points but in parallel fashion.• Continue to thin out the tree until there is a good 15 – 30cm of air space around every branch.• As with your clean up cuts, it is important to thin the branches back flush to the branch.

This is the easiest step, you are basically giving your fruit tree a haircut.

• You will be pruning back the outermost growth of the tree, this will encourage shorter and thicker stems instead of long and gangly. Thicker stems will carry the weight of fruit.

• Cut back 10 to 30 percent of the previous year’s growth. You can distinguish last year’s growth from two year-old growth by the wrinkly ring of bark encircling each stem.

• Unlike the previous two steps, these cuts will be made part way into each branch. Exactly where you make the cut is important too. Prune back to a point of 3cm above a bud that faces the direction you want that branch to grown. If there is another branch close by on the left, for example, prune back to a bud on the right side of the branch.

2THIN OUT

3HEAD BACK

Pruning Tips• Sharp shears make for clean easy cuts.

• As a measure of disease prevention, dip the blades of your pruning shears in a disinfection fluid for 30 seconds to disinfect them before moving on to prune another tree.

• Clean up the pruned wood from around the tree and dispose – especially it if contains any diseased material.

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Rose pruning is done from July to early August. Follow our easy how-to steps below. fACToID

If a planted rose dies and you want to replace it with another – remove the soil in that area and replace with fresh soil.

1 With a sharp clean pair of secateurs approach the rose bush without fear or intimidation.

4 Unless the wounds are larger than your little finger allow them to seal themselves. Apply a sealant to larger wounds to prevent infection.

2 Cut the whole bush down by 2/3.

5 Lastly spray your pruned rose bush and the surrounding soil with Oleum. This is done in order kill all unhatched ‘goggos’ and fungus around the plant. Mix according to recommended dilution rates and thoroughly coat the plant.

3 Prune with this philosophy in mind: can the butterflies fly in between the branches? Start by cutting out all older branches at their base, then all dead and weak looking stems and any branches that criss-cross. Don’t worry about being ‘horticulturally correct’ in your pruning methods – it’s the biggest gardening fallacy!

You will need:

5 Steps to easy rose pruning

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Happiness everyday comes in many forms, and one walk through GardenShop FloraFarm is pure garden happiness. FloraFarm’s 10 acres of shopping space is conveniently situated on North Rand Road in Boksburg. GardenShop FloraFarm delights with plants, herbs, fruit trees, ornamental trees, indigenous and waterwise shrubs and perennials. A large expanse of containers, pots, garden accessories from benches, patio furniture, bronzeware and water features are found around every corner. Indulge in their Birding, Bonsai and Children’s Departments and newest of all, a Weber shop to indulge your outdoor cooking entertainment ideas.

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GardenShop FloraFarmFloraFarm CentreCorner North Rand and Trichardts RoadsBoksburgTel 011 894 2377eMail [email protected]

Calender highlight not to be missed at GardenShop

FloraFarm: 2-4 September 2016

East Rand Orchid Society Show

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Weber accessories subject to availability

Serves 4 Ingredients:1 whole chicken, about 1½ kgSalt Pepper

Glaze1 bunch parsley25 ml lemon juice25 ml mayonnaise25 ml French style mustard1 tsp oregano1 tsp tarragon½ tsp cayenne15 ml oil60 ml chicken stock

Equipment: Weber Roast holder

In the kitchenPrepare the chicken. Season it.Wash and chop the parsley. Then combine all ingredients for the glaze and set it aside.

At the BraaiPrepare the braai for indirect heat, approx. 190°C. Place a drip pan on the charcoal grate.Place the roast holder on the cooking grate – in the middle. Brush some sauce over the chicken and place it bone side down on a roast holder. Put the lid on the braai and cook the chicken for 45-50 minutes, basting with sauce during the last 15-20 minutes.

Spatchcock Chicken with Mustard Glaze – the Weber Way!

A way to save time when cooking chicken – cut down both sides of the backbone with a pair of poultry shears or sharp heavy duty scissors. Turn over and flatten.

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Weber magic comes to GardenShop

A selection of charcoal, gas and electric outdoor grills with related accessories available now at selected GardenShops.

GardenShop florafarm

GardenShop Bryanston

GardenShop Broadacres

Best pricesguaranteed

opening August 2016

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Waterwise plants

A waterwise garden includes indigenous plants, ornamental grasses, succulents, drought-resistant vegetation and hard landscaping materials like bark chips, mulch, rocks and gravel. These plants and products are a perfect solution for gardens that are making the transition into low maintenance gardening.

Butterfly bush – BuddlejaDeciduous flowering shrub. Attracts butterflies, heat tolerant, long flowering season.

Verbena Verbenas are long flowering annual or perennial flowers that possess the virtues of heat tolerance and an extremely long flowering season. Many perennial verbenas are relatively short lived, but their vigour and heavy flowering make up for this defect. They do well grown as annual flowering plants also, since they flower quickly during the first season after planting.

Fountain grass – PennisetumA charming, deciduous grass that forms a compact, low mound and produces long-lasting, soft, pinkish, brush-like flowers in late summer that resemble squirrel tails. It’s a fairly undistinguished plant until the flowers appear, so use it alongside spring bulbs or early-flowering perennials.

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Go Green with Culterra Compost

Luscious green lawns, abundant leaf growth and super-healthy looking plants, shrubs, flowers and even fruits and vegetables, is certain to leave

garden admirers ‘green with envy’.

The secret is Culterra’s Organic Compost. With 50 years experience in producing a top quality compost, Culterra’s top-selling gardening item in summer will help you achieve a soil structure and texture that is optimum for growing and creating better – and stronger – plant root environments.

Nourishing your soil with Culterra Organic Compost – rich in naturally occurring trace minerals and elements – will also reduce the need for additional feeding.

Additional benefits include:

Greater water-retention thus reducing water loss.

Boosts plant growth.

Improves aeration.

Loosens clay soil.

Helps plants resist pests and disease.

Green living is that easy with South Africa’s favourite organic compost.

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If you truly want to experience magnificent fragrance, purchase a candle of premium quality. I highly recommend a visit to our Yankee Candle stands in store. Made from natural extracts you will experience pure scent and delight from each candle Garden-Shop stocks. — Editor

Personal favourites

• White Gardenia

• Fresh Cut Roses

• Garden Sweetpea

• Midnight Jasmine

• Lavender

Editor’s favourite

Large Jars R365

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GardenValue Garden more for less with all-year round value-for-money gardening promotions. Our GardenValue specials have been thoughtfully selected to offer our customers the very best in seasonal quality at exceptional prices.

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The best gardening advice I’ve ever received

Annette Blom is to visit my garden centre all the time, because I may never know what is available that is new and exciting, if I don’t.

Sharon Gemma Hobson my Mom has always grown veggies in between her flowers and shrubs. We always had fresh beans to pick or carrots to pull out as kids. Now as a pensioner she has an old English garden look in her small townhouse, but fresh salad on her plate every night. Best of all I now do the same as does my daughter who is a chef. Fresh from garden to table. Thanks, mom xxx

Sharing your tricks of the trade of what really works against garden critters

Ashley Padayachee Plant Gerbera daisies near your roses as they attract ladybirds, which will definitely keep the aphids away from your roses! #ladybirds#BeGardenWise

Neil Becker Babypowder against ants.

Sharing your best practices when it comes to saving water in the garden

Maureen Mphorend Madiseng Using a watering can instead of a sprinkler and water before midday or late afternoon.

Roseline Grobler we use water collected from our geyser overflow pipe, and do agree as everyone else has suggested in the previous posts.

Sharing which herbs and vegetables or plants grow best with each other

Herbert Meyer Onions – Companions: beet, cabbage family, carrot, chard, lettuce, pepper, strawberry, and tomato. Enemies: onions stunt beans, peas. #BeGardenWise

Danny Moreo Spinach is one of the most cold tolerant vegetable plants, plant it with coriander and it will grow nicely #BeGardenWise

Sharing practical methods of encouraging our garden friends

Justine Kettle I have a smallish garden with lots of plants and big trees and a bird bath. I have lots of longhair cats – when I have groomed them and have piles of soft fur, I put the hair outside and the birds – mostly mossies and weavers – stand in queues for their share and build luxury nests (where the cats can’t reach!) in my big trees! Lucky chicks!

Sharing the joy of gardening with your children and grandchildren

Justine Burgess I have shared the JOY of gardening with my little man by helping him plant his very own vegetable garden of carrots, spinach, tomatoes, mint & rosemary. Every morning he was so excited to see their progress, and looked after them so well. Very rewarding to see him pull up his first carrot and his first tomatoes which were so delicious! #BeGardenWise

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