|
South Australia - March 2002 |
|
Select
the date from the list shown below for this months tip |
|
4th |
A
Hawthorn SA gardener has some pretty old ‘Lady Finger’ grapes that
have escaped being pruned for quite a few years and asks, ‘how can they
be pruned to produce spurs, that will set grapes?’ After consulting
Bruce Farquhar, who’s an old Hyde Park colleague from my early TV days,
we concur that no amount of mutilation or pruning would stop a vine from
shooting. |
|
|
11th
|
This really is the month to plant your sweet
peas. We have some of the very best Gawler cultivars that have been raised
locally and even the Yates’ Dr Hammett strains from New Zealand do so well
here.
|
|
18th |
The
Himeji Garden on South Terrace, Adelaide just opposite number 262, has
been closed for about eight months for a major reconstruction, maintenance
and replant, under direction of Fumio Ueda for Adelaide City Council. Now
open again during daylight hours it is a fine example of an authentic
Japanese garden right in our parklands. It’s tranquil, free and
definitely no wedding photography permitted!
|
|
|
25th
|
The
recent rain and the onset of real autumn nights signals that it’s now
time to plant Pansies and Violas. The ‘Moonface™’ pansies named
after Bert Newton, with his endorsement, looks a bright addition to Annie’s
cottage garden already and I’m told that it flowers into the warmer end
of the year, when others have given up and it forms a short squat plant,
so the flowers look prolific.
|
