GARDENSHOP’S MAGAZINE

Spring 2012

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Editor’s Letter

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Stand by for a glorious, magical spring at GardenShop

A chance to add zest and energy after a cold and long winter. Introduce new colour schemes into your garden, start implementing water-saving systems, create wild meadow areas for wild-life and birds and invest in organic fertilisers that will bring health and vitality to your garden.

Spring is an ideal time to encourage children to spend more time outdoors, involve them in fun activities like creating and making their own magical gardens with colourful fl owering seedlings, creating teepees out of bamboo stakes and bean seedlings, or growing their own potted toma-toes. The miniatures bite -size tomatoes are delicious and are fun to watch grow!

GardenShop brings you everything from glorious fl owering hanging baskets, incredible selec-tions of fl owering perennials and the very latest in organic and natural fertilisers to help you make the very best of Spring.

Happy Gardening

12Spring! It is time to garden It’s time to spring start your garden and it’s incredibly easy with our handy hints and tips.

Sassy Spring Must Have’s A bold, beautiful, exciting and enticing range of plants, garden products and essentials from GardenShop. Children’s Gardens Let your child discover and experience the joys of gardening, nature and outdoor play with our Spring Children’s Garden Workshop.fe

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Flowers and Bulbs

• Plant fl owering seedlings like alyssum, begoni a, celosia, cosmos, chrysan-themum palidosum, dahlia (bedding), dianthu s, lobelia, marigold, impatiens, pansy, petunia and vinca.

• Continue watering and fertilising annu-als and bulbs ideally with liquid fertilisers like Hadeco Bulb Food, Margaret Roberts Supercharger or Multifeed Flowegro.

• Start feeding your roses, fruit trees and citrus with Sudden Impact for Roses, Wonder 6:1:5 (22) Flowers and Fruit or Ludwig’s Vigorosa.

• Watch out for the lily borer on clivias and lily bulbs.

• Sow fl ower seeds like ageratum, alyssu m, aster, candytuft, Canterbury bells, cleome, cosmos, dianthus, impatiens, lavatera , lobelia, marigold, petunia, salivia, schizanthu s, sweet william, verbena, vinca and viola.

• Plant summer bulbs like amaryllis, arum, begonia, cannas, crocosmia, dahlia, eucomi s, galtonia, gladiolus, spider lily, nerine, tigridia and zephyranthus.

Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit• Mulch Raspberry canes with compost or manure

• Sow vegetable seeds like runner beans, bush beans, beetroot, broccoli, chillies, cabbage, carrot, celery, cucumber, eggfruit, green pepper, leeks,lettuce, melon, onion, parsley, peas, parsnip, pumpkin, rhubarb, spinach, radish, squash, sweetcorn, tomato, turnip and watermelon

• Plant vegetable seedlings like celery, lettuce, parsley, spinach and tomatoes.

Spring! It is time to garden

Follow our tips to spring start your garden into shape

Plant vegetable seedlings like celery, lettuce, parsley, spinach and tomatoes.

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General Tasks

• Finish off all your pruning, especially your roses and fruit trees.

• Once you are sure of no late frosts, you can prune your fuchsias.

• Don’t cut back frost-damaged plants until the danger of frost has passed.

• Continue watering plants in containers and hanging baskets to prevent drying out, especially in the Highveld where gusty, August winds prevail.

• Divide and replant any overcrowded perennials.

• Repot pot plants and other plants that have outgrown their containers into bigger pots.

• Protect young shoots from attack by slugs and snails.

• Clean gutters in anticipation of the summer rains.

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• Rake the lawn vigorously with a metal tooth rake to remov e the old grass and to loosen the soil.

• Your lawn should be cut as short as possible to remove all old and dislodged grass. (The raking should only be carried out every second year.)

• Feed and boost your lawn with Wonder 7:1:3 Lawns and Leaf Fertiliser, Neutrog’s Upsurge or an organic alternativ e like Vita-Green 5:1:5 (16).

• Water well after fertiliser application.

• Lawn dressing should also be applied every second year. A bag of lawn dressing will cover 4m2. Lawn dressing will not help to level the soil. In order to level the soil, topsoil should be applied.

AperfectSpring Spring Lawn

Countrywide rising temperatures, clear blue skies and vibrant spring colours make being in the garden almo st irresistible. Kick start your lawn into action with our essential tips for a perfect spring lawn. This treatment should only apply to the creeping grasses such as Kikuyu, LM, Bayview and Skaaplaas.

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Sassy Spring

This season, ‘Spring it On’ with GardenShop’s new and exciting range of superb plants, gardening products and essentials that will make others quite literally, green with envy!

Proven Winner Petunia Vista Varieties

Vigorous, mounding plantsthat are perfect landscape

fi llers. Bloom all year, low maintenance.

Premium Potting SoilNow with enhanced water retention. 30dm.

SeamungusHealth tonic for plants. Seaweed and fi sh acids ensure your plants stay strong and healthy. 10kg.

AngeloniasImproved old-time favourite. Free fl owering, various colours.

‘Tara Blue’A Felicia with compact growth and an abundance of fl owers. It is indigenous and waterwise too.

Hozelock HosereelsTrusted European quality now available in SA. Various hosereels and hosepipes available.

Essential Organics bookA comprehensive South African book on how to garden organically.

must have’s

Plectranthus chimenii

Indigenous gem! Flowers from spring to

autumn. Ideal for full sun.

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Egg shape BirdfeederA GardenShop Exclusive! And many more feeders in store.

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PerfectGIFTPerfect

Paris Garden rangeUrban farming on your window sill. Various types to choose from.

Snail-GoneEnvironmentally friendly and longer-lasting pellets to con-trol snails. 500g.

KumulusProtect your plants against mites, thrips and fungi. 250g.

Flour Dust PlantPink fl owers in spring. Low-growing succulent, ideal for mass planting or pots.

Reel Gardening KidsSeeds for kids. Easy, great fun and fool-proof!

Calibrachoa ‘Dark Red’, ‘Amythest’,

‘Nostalgia’ and ‘Hot Pink’

Pretty beautiful! Assortment of new and

double varieties, good in baskets and pots.

Petunia Phantom Hanging Baskets Bring the opera to your garden! Sun-loving annuals.

Petunia Black Velvet/ Alyssum Hanging Basket Black is beautiful! Sun-loving.

Petunia Suncatcher Lemonade Hanging BasketsTrailing Petunia with masses of fl owers all year. Good for pots and hanging baskets.

Vita 6.3.4 VegetablesA certifi ed organic, slow release food for your herb and vegetable garden. 2kg.

Geraldton Wax

An old-time favourite, now back in store!

Various colours available.

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GardenShop Suet Cakes, Peanut Blocks and Seed BellsYour garden birds deserve nothing less than the best quality bird feeds available.

Double OsteosIndigenous, waterwise AND pretty! Howz that! Ideal for mass planting.

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WATERWISE

‘Kilimanjaro’Dainty yes, but hardy too! Showers of white fl owers all year.

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Orange PopsAs colours move in and out of fashion we find the same colours trending in the garden. This year, fiery pops of orange were featured in the many gardens on display at the Chelsea Flower Show. Restricting the colour palette in this way gives real visual impact, and could work well in small gardens.

Top GardeningTrends from theChelsea Flower Show

Water ManagementDifferent ways of managing water were found at many gardens this year. A modern version of a water garden will use rainwater to fill channels, which is filtered through the planted beds alongside the channels.

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Green GardeningGreen Gardening

Practice composting: If you have the space to make your own compost you will be able to give back to your garden and the environment.

Recycle organic waste: Earthworm farms are one way of taking care of your organic kitchen waste. Earthworm bins are manageable for anyone who has limited space. They produce a vermicompost appropriately known as Black Gold which will produce miraculous growth in your garden.

Save water in your garden: Saving water makes good environmental and economic sense. Consider install-ing water storage tanks! Mulching flower beds will help the soil retain moisture and hereby decreasing watering, Reduce water-ing time to an absolute minimum and when choosing plants, consider their water requirements.

Growyourownfood: There’s no better time to start growing your own herbs and vegetables. In a matter of weeks you’ll be enjoy-ing your own fresh, tasty produce straight from the garden.

Feed your soil: By building up soil in spring you will be producing healthier and pest free gardens.

Five Important Green Gardening tips from GardenShop.

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The opportunities for children to freely interact in a naturalised setting has been greatly diminished. Physical boundaries have shrunk, houses and apartments are smaller and gardens are smaller or even non-existent. Children’s lives have also become more structured, schedule d and supervised that for many, free play consists of sitting inside in front of a TV or computer.

Children’s Gardens

The positive benefits associated with chil-dren experiencing natural environments and free outdoor play produces much food for thought - creative problem solving, better recalling of information, developing the imagination, reduced stress and general feelings of well being. However if children had the skills to design outdoor play areas it would be completely different to an adult’s inter-pretation - fully naturalised with plants, trees, flowers, water, dirt, sand, animals and insects – providing rich varieties of developmentally appropriate play and learning opportunities.

“Children learn best through free play and discovery”

A discovery garden offers a sen-sory experien ce which is unique and appealin g to children and different standards of play apply. Creating a discovery garden offers children the chance to manipulate their environ-ment and explore, to experiment, to pretend, to understand themselves and to interac t with nature, animals and interesting insects and other children. Loose parts like sand, water and natural ly found object s are essential tools for free outdoor play, nurturing curiosity and wonder.

GardenShop Spring Garden Workshop for children between the ages of 6 and 12

Price: R200 per child Date: Saturday, 1 September 2012

Time: 10 – 12:30pm Venue: GardenShop Bryanston

Book: Call Linsay on 011 463 5773 or email her at linsay@gardenshop.co.za. Alternatively you can book online at www.gardenshop.co.za

Workshop activities to include:

• Mr. Pot Head – painting a face on the pot and planting a funky grass as the hair.

• Sensory Planter Box – planting of mints and thyme and other sensory herbs using different mulches.

• Garden Picture Frame – gluing items onto a frame attaching it to a bamboo stick. Looking at nature closely through their frame.

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GardenShop Spring Garden Workshop for children between the ages of 6 and 12

Stoneridge Shopping Centre

Cnr. Modderfontein and Hereford Rd, Edenvale

Telephone: 011 524 0257

GPS Co-Ordinates: 26° 06’ 56. 88” S / 28° 08’ 42. 73” E

Happy BirthdayGardenShop Edenvale

Gardening specials will abound all Spring

long and essential gardening products are

available for a ship shape garden.

You’ll also fi nd munch cafe at GardenShop Parktown, Corner Jan Smuts Avenue and Bolton Road, Parktown North. Telephone 011 447-9061. email: food@munchcafe.co.za or visit their web site at munchcafe.co.za

By purchasing any Hozelock product, one lucky

GardenRewards member stands the chance of winning a fantastic

Ryobi 4-Stroke Self-Propelled Petrol RM-70SP lawmower!

This rear wheel drive mower makes for easier and effortless mowing.

All you have do after your Hozelock product buy is email marketing@gardenshop.co.za with

‘Win A Ryobi Lawnmower’ in the subject line, along with your

GardenRewards membership number and contact details.

Closing date for entries is 30 September 2012. Winner will be announced in our

Summer 2012 issue.

WIN!

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munch cafeOpening soon this spring at Bryanston!

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