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South Australia - March 2003 |
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3rd |
Prune
your landscape and bush roses by removing no more than 20% of the tips and
they will produce a crop of buds and flowers admittedly on shorter stalks,
in about 53 days. This does not apply to the average climber nor to
heritage or old fashioned roses which are more likely to be seasonal
flowering plants, than the modern recurrent flowering cultivars. |
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10th
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With the nursery and hardware outlets stocked to
the roof with bulbs at present, it could not have escaped your attention if
you plant bulbs annually. Many do plant annually too, because the promise of
success comes conveniently packed in each tulip, daffodil and hyacinth, so
that no matter what sort of gardener you are, success is assured in the
first year anyhow!
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17th |
All this week is Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
awareness week with a badge day at Burnside Village and their national
emblem the Cornflower will be available as packet seed at all Coles
supermarket checkouts and Chemplus Pharmacies, as a fundraiser. It’s ideal
time to sow the Cornflower now too.
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24th
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A Magill SA gardener asks why their Aquilegia
leaves are turning purple? It is a common condition on the leaves of
container plants in winter where potassium leaches readily and that
deficiency causes the purple coloration. As for Aquilegia, I’m not
certain, but would suggest the same.
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