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GARDENSHOP’S MAGAZINE
Autumn 2013
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GardenShop brings you the beloved of all seasons, autumn. As with all new years, come new ideas and gardening is no exception. 2013 will see an increase in community gardening with inspiring trends to create beautiful spaces in urban areas. Whether it be one to twenty square metres, community gardens are making their mark. And, where recycling is becoming an addictive and very necessary pastime, so too is recycled art in the garden. That broken porcelain cistern is ideally suited to planting up with kitchen herbs and placing near the kitchen for easy access. Autumn brings you an array of exciting vegetable seeds to be sown - look out for the new season’s seed making their way into our garden centres. An ideal time to plant bulbs, they too, will make their spectacular entrance at GardenShop. Roses are perfectly suited for planting in the autumn - look out for the many new varieties now available. Enclosed with your magazine is GardenShop’s autumn discount offer to be used with your next purchase at GardenShop. You will be spoilt for choice as GardenShop continues to bring you tempting gardening delights!
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2013 Gardening design trends From community gardens, recycled garden art to outdoor rooms – these make for exciting gardening times!
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Autumn garden notes Essential hints, great ideas and top tips to rejuvenate your garden for the new season. Go Feather this GardenShop’s exciting new photographic competition for bird enthusiasts. Enter now! Fabulous birding products to be won.
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The Room Outside The concept of the Room Outside has never gone away. 2013 will see this concept strengthen even further as people can no longer afford to move, and find innovative ways to create the ‘outdoor kitchen’ the ‘office outside’ and the ‘home playground’. Use of space in the garden for traditionally indoor pursuits will be explored to the max.
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Recycled Garden Art Difficult times are always productive for art. People find new ways and forms of expression. This is an area where we are increasingly seeing beautiful and original art pieces more often made from recycling of other re-purposed objects. Look for metal, stone and wood recycled objects blending into their own surroundings. Whilst these used to be considered the domain of eccentricity or non-mainstream enthusiasts, recycled art is set to become the buzz word with collectors and garden designers alike in 2013.
Community Gardening in Urban Areas Join the worldwide trend in joining forces with your neighbours and community to create beautiful spaces in public spaces. These are both to grow food and to create beautiful spaces. Hats off to suburb gardeners who grab any opportunity to use their verges to create interesting and creative gardens extending their love of garden pleasure to everyone who passes by. GardenShop recently launched its annual Great Pavement Competition and this is a platform where community gardening is recognised.
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Gorgeous Pavements
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Taryn Gill from Greenside took first place with her Greenside community pavement. Taryn’s entry is a wonderful and exciting example of how a small piece of pavement can benefit so many people.
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m ded to Sue Olswang fro Second place was awar full of s wa love ment labour of Westdene whose pave great beauty and charm.
3 Third place was awar ded to Wilna Brand from Wapadrand in Pretori a East for her pave ment “for its clean modern lines and striking impa ct.”
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Garden Notes Conditions are just perfect for dividing, planting, fertilising and trimming. Here are some great tips to keep you busy and to help get your hands dirty this coming autumn FLOWERS
LAWNS
• Sow hardy flower seeds like Primulas, Sweet Peas, Stocks, Namaqualand Daisies, Delphiniums, Gazania and Iceland Poppies.
• Continue fertilising your lawn with Vitaliser Lawn and Leaf, Vita-Lawn 5:1:5 or Neutrog’s Blade Runner.
• Remove summer annuals that are faded and replace with Pansies, Primulas, Stocks, Calendula’s and Petunias for lovely winter colour.
• Continue spraying your roses with an organic insecticide on a fortnightly basis to prevent both fungal and disease attacks.
• An ideal time to create a new lawn using seed or instant grass.
• Continue to prune your roses lightly, remove dead and diseased wood at the same time. This will encourage flowering until winter.
PONDS
BULBS
• Check filters on pumps to ensure that they are not blocked.
• Continue to feed pond fish.
• When the ground has cooled down it will be time to plant spring flowering bulbs Hyacinths, Daffodils, Ixias, Sparaxis, Anemones, Ranunculus, Waterblommetjies and Leucojums.
• Remove any plant material that has fallen into the pond to prevent the build up of disease.
• Indoor bulbs such as prepared Hyacinths can also be planted now.
• Install a net to prevent leaves falling in to it.
VEGETABLES, HERBS and FRUIT
• Plant fruit bearing berry bushes/vines like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. • Plant vegetable seedlings like Cabbage, Spinach, Beetroot, Cauliflower and leafy greens like Pak Choi, Tat Soi, Mizuna and Chinese Cabbage. • Sow vegetable seeds like Broad beans, Broccoli, Beetroot, Swiss Chard, Carrot, Cabbage and Leeks. • Plant winter culinary herbs like Thyme, Oreganum, Chervil, Parsley and Sage. • Cut and dry herbs for use in the winter. • Citrus trees can be fed with 2kg of Rose Food and 75g of Magnesium Sulphate (Epson Salts). • Continue to take precautions against slugs and snails.
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GENERAL TASKS
• Start feeding the birds – hang up some feeders with a variety of seeds and suet balls to attract different birds to your garden. • Clear up any fallen leaves and other dead plant material to prevent diseases over wintering. • Plant new shrubs and trees to ensure a good start in spring as roots will have time to establish through the winter months. • Divide and split perennials and groundcovers like Agapanthus, Dietes, Red-Hot Pokers, ornamental grasses, Day Lilies, Alstromerias and Asters. • Transplant plants that are in the wrong positions in autumn so that they have time to settle in during the winter months. • Prune back and clean out hedges. • Mulch your beds with lawn clippings, fallen leaves and bark chips to prevent loss of moisture. • Start your own compost heap. • Or alternatively start your own wormery - to create the best garden compost you will ever lay your hands on. It is easy and effectively takes care of your organic kitchen waste like vegetable and fruit peelings, stale bread, coffee grindings, tea bags, leftover cooked rice and pasta.
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Feathering our Birds It’s a beautiful time of the year to embrace our garden community of companions that delight and enthral us to no end – the birds! Not only do these beautiful creatures entertain with their melodies, twitters and natural colours, but the variety seen in our gardens is a real treasure to behold. So why not spoil them with GardenShop’s extensive range of birding products! Ruffling their tail feathers will bring as much joy as they do ruffling yours! GardenShop is leading the way in wild bird care! • Exclusive imported bird products and accessories. • GardenShop Feed Delights – Suet Cakes, Suet Crumble and Nectar Drinks. • Bird Tables and Bird Baths.
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Keep an eye out for #BIRDISTHEWORD tweets and posting by GardenShopSA. On mention of this catch phrase at the till points, you’ll receive 10% off any birding product item. Offer valid for the days these tweets and posts go out only.
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• To Tweet About • • Facebook • Birding Competition GardenShop is running a photographic competition for all bird enthusiasts. Snap a photograph of any bird visiting your garden (excluding Mynah birds) until the end of May 2013, like our GardenShopSA Facebook page (http:// www.facebook.com/ GardenShopSA ) or email your ‘garden visiting bird’ to marketing@ gardenshop.co.za. Winners will be announced in early June 2013 via GardenShop’s social media. 1st Prize: Birding products to the value of R3000. 2nd Prize: Birding products to the value of R2000.
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3rd Prize: Birding products to the value of R1000.
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Rooting for Roses
Autumn is the ideal time to plant new roses to allow them to settle in during winter. Don’t plant a rose in soil where an old rose has grown – it will get “rose sickness”. Replace the old soil to a depth and width of at least 60cm with new soil. See our selection at your local GardenShop store.
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GardenShop’s Collection range, an exclusive selection of Succulent Pots available at GardenShop. Succulent Collection 16cm terracotta pot (right) from R79.95 Succulent Collection Bowl (below) from R54.95
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