Gardening in winter seems to trouble a lot of people, but it needn’t be so. Here we share some direction to help your cause, and prepare for a beautiful summer garden.
Looking after a garden is an ongoing affair and like any relationship, it really does take regular and ongoing maintenance, especially at this time of the year. With all the rain, weeds grow faster than the plants so generally speaking every plant in your garden needs to be cared for specifically.
The idea was to create a succulent garden that would be water wise and low maintenance, whilst at the same time incorporating the aesthetics of a “Karoo Padstal” in look and feel – the type of vibe that they hoped to bring to the North Coast.
The service of composting can be thrown around in the garden services industry as an optional or unnecessary procedure but we see composting as a vital and essential service in every garden. This blog explains the procedure, benefits, and best timing for composting your garden beds.
From parrot cage to plant cage!
1. Find Polly’s old cage (that noisy parrot that drove us all insane!). Sadly, Polly left for birdie heaven years ago and his cage is just sitting in the garage collecting dust and is always in your way. You have threatened to throw it out so many times, then the guilt steps in and you don’t, poor Polly what would he think? Here’s what he would think, let’s turn it into a flower cage
Hanging baskets always conjure up memories of dried up flowers in desperate need of water, hanging from your granny’s balcony, collecting every bug, spider and dust particle in sight. Lucky for us, that’s not the case anymore, especially for those of us that don’t have gardens to play around in. Now we can be so creative with hanging baskets, from beautiful flowering annuals that you can change as the season changes, to succulents that seem to go on forever, demanding almost no attention, even fruit, like strawberries are perfect for these baskets.
The ideal characteristics of the plants to be selected are that they are drought resistant and wind resistant, they small low growing, easily reproduce themselves from seed in the event that the plants die of during times of extreme heat or drought. In addition it is of advantage if they have a creeping habit so that they are easily able to fill gaps left by die back during times of moisture stress.
