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It’s a

Summer 2013

Summer party!

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It’s a

Summer Party!

It’s a Garden Party!

A wonderful Spring has brought us Summer! Colour and flowers abound in our gardens with the promise of happy days spent outdoors with our families, friends and pets. Enjoying your garden this Summer is our priority.

GardenShop is ready to assist you in getting your Summer garden ready with a large selection of outdoor garden accessories and Summer plants to add a touch of fun and fizz to the party season!

Following our successful Girls Glam Night Out events in August, GardenShop is excited to bring you our Christmas Preview evenings. Shop for your Christmas gifts and decorations in our beautiful garden centre surroundings. Book early to avoid disappointment – see page 15.

To help you on your way we are glad to be able to offer you a R100 voucher to be used for any purchase at GardenShop to the value of R300. You will be spoilt for choice from Roses, planted herb pots, selection of Summer seedlings and so much more!

Happy Gardening.

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featured Your Summer gardening guide Our Summer garden guide is filled with great hints, tips, to-do’s and to reward your sunny planting days, a magical Mint Julep punch recipe!

It’s a Summer Party! Terrific ideas to make your Summer entertaining and party settings the talk of the town.

GardenShop proudly supports BirdLife South Africa. birdlife.org.za Giving Conservation Wings.

GardenShop Christmas in the garden ‘Tis the season to be in the garden with a beautiful selection of wonderful and inspiring Christmas gift ideas!

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Summer is upon us! Follow GardenShop’s expert gardening tips to help your garden flower and thrive in the Summer months.

The envy of your Lawn • Continue to mow grass raising the height of cut in dry weather.

• Water in dry spells provided there are no water restrictions.

• Continue to fertilise your lawn every six weeks with an organic based, boosted fertiliser like Neutrog’s Sudden Impact for Lawns.

Your

summer gardening guide

The flowering Summer garden • Plant Summer flowering seedlings.

• Prune late Spring and early Summer flowering shrubs and trees, like your Azaleas, Magnolias and Rhododendrons immediately after flowering to promote new growth • Deadhead Sweet Pea flowers to increase their flowering season.

• Deadhead Roses and feed regularly with Neutrog’s Sudden Impact For Roses or Ludwig’s Vigorosa • Spray Roses to control black spot, mildew and aphids.

• Water hanging baskets and containers at least once a day and feed once a week with Multifeed Flowergro.

• Feed perennials and flowering shrubs with a granular fertiliser e.g. Wonder 8:1:5 (25) for Roses and Flowers, Neutrog’s Sudden Impact for Roses or Ludwig’s Vigorosa.

Work into the soil.

• Tie in and train new growth on climbing and rambling Roses.

• Plant Summer flowering bulbs like Dahlias, Amaryllis, Zantedeschia and Water Lilies.

The edible garden in Summer • Strawberry runners can be pegged down into soil or pots.

• Remove straw from under Strawberries that have finished fruiting.

• Mulch Rhubarb plants and remove flower spikes.

• Pick Raspberries regularly.

• Harvest globe Artichokes.

• Sow salad crops directly into the ground to continue getting fresh vegetables and herbs.

• Feed all vegetable and herb plants with Vita Herb or Veg.

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Busy, busy Summer gardening to do’s • Watch out for snails and cutworm.

• Visit GardenShop for new pot and hanging basket plants.

• Check watering each day as the Summer temperatu­re begins to rise.

Summer Flowering Pots and Hanging Baskets Summer gardens full of bright vibrant colour are a real delight! Instant colour pots and hanging baskets with amazing plants from GardenShop will add an instant summer pop.

Supertunia and Superbells

Choose from a beautiful range of colours from the Proven Winners range of Superpetunias and Superbells. They have great garden and container performance. They have a vigorous mounding habit and will flower all summer without deadheading. The flowers will attract many different species of Butterflies. Varieties include: • Supertunia Sangria Charm PW • Supertunia Silverberry PW • Supertunia Vista Bubblegum PW • Supertunia Raspberry Blast PW • Superbells Lemon Slice PW • Superbells Double Ruby PW

Supertunia Varieties PW Superbells Lemon Slice PW

Ideal for hanging baskets, window boxes, landscaping and in a combination of containers. The flowers will certainly stun and cascade beautifully. Fertilise often with a liquid fertiliser like Multfeed Flowegro. Plant in full sun and see how she will grow!

Calibrochoa ‘Mini Famous and “Can Can’ PW

This mini free flowering Petunia really is a Summer show stopper. Allow to cascade and spill out of hanging baskets and containers. The vigorous small bell shaped flower will look magnificent in your Summer garden. Plant in a sunny position.

Fuchsia ‘Shadow Dancer’ PW Supertunia Berry Blast PW

Fuchsia ‘Shadow Dancer’ is an early Summer Fuchsia bloomer and is well known for its compact and uniform look. Absolutely fantastic in a hanging basket, ready to take home. Feed regularly to maintain its healthy tiptop condition. GardenShop recommends the soluble granular fertiliser, Multifeed Flowergro.

Fuschia Shadow Dancer

Superbells Double Rose

Calibrachoa MiniFamous Double Deep Yellow

Supertunia Rasberry Blast

Supertunia Vista Bubblegum

Supertunia Vista Siverberry

Supertunia Sangria Charm

Superbells Double Ruby

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Mint Julep

Punch

Enjoy this refreshing punch to quench your thirst during the hot Summer months.

It will surely be a Summer party hit with everyone and they’ll also benefit from the healing properties of Mint.

Mint Julep Infusion:

Other ingredients:

Garnishing:

250 ml Fruit concentrate

10 Lemon slices

2 cups hot water

500 ml Soda Water

Mint Julep leaves

1 cup Mint Julep leaves

to dilute 500 ml Ginger Ale

Method: Pour boiling water over Mint Julep and let it steep for about 15min. to make a strong infusion.

Strain the Mint Julep and add the infusion to the fruit concentrate, Soda Water and Ginger Ale in a punch bowl.

Add to this some lemon or lime slices, Mint Julep leaves and lots of Ice. For a refreshing sundowner, add Vodka or flavoured Cane spirit.

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Summer Kitchen Delights Coriander

A favourite Summer herb packed full of flavour and combined with Anise will add flavour to many Summer recipes.

Basil

There is absolutely no excuse not to grow this outstanding culinary herb this Summer.

To keep up with the demand sow and grow your own Basil.

Mint

Use to garnish cool dessert dishes and add chopped to Summer coldrinks and cocktails – see our Mint Julep recipe on page 6. Fantastic to sow straight into the soil, thin out and transplant into pots.

Plant amongst your Tomatoes in the vegetable garden.

Lavender

How to get great soil for sowing: • Dig deep.

Oh yes, Lavender seed is available from Kirchhoffs. Why not try to sow and grow your own Lavender. Lavender is an excellent insecticide, repels mice, ticks and fleas. Grown close to vegetables, it gives added flavour. Add flowers to fruit salads and marinade for venison. Add leaves to braised meat dishes.

• Loosen the soil with a fork; remove stones, rubble

and weeds.

• Add organic material like compost.

Kirchhoffs seed supply these Summer favourites, available at GardenShop.

• Add Superphosphate or bonemeal for root development.

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Every garden should have at least one fruit tree, and now you have the largest selection to choose from.

GardenShop boasts one of the largest selection of fruit trees available. All lovingly overwintered, rebagged and ready in our Kitchen Garden Department for your careful selection.

Trust us, once you’ve experienced home-gro­wn flavour and freshness, you will be thrilled at purchas­ing your own fruit trees.

Fruit to go

Fruit trees can grow in most spaces in the garden or on a balcony where space is of a premium. Consider the following elements when choosing the right fruit tree for its ultimate growing space.

Grape Vines, Grow over an arch or pergola. Grape Vines can also be grown in a container and then trained up a trellis on a hot balcony. Varieties available and suitable for our climate are Catawba and Hanepoot.

Citrus Trees, no garden or balcony can be without a Citrus Tree, it is a must. If this is the first time at growing fruit trees, Citrus varieties like Lime, Lemon and Kumquats are the way to go!

Soft fruit like Apple, Apricot, Plum, Fig and Pear Trees are ideally suited to larger gardens where you are able to create an “orchard”. Consider growing and training one of the fruit trees into an espalier. Literally translated it is a fruit tree or shrub whose branches are trained to grow flat against a wall, supported on a lattice or a framework of stakes. This can even be done on a balcony where the fruit tree will be planted directly into a container, placed flush against the wall and branches trained accordingly.

Fruit Tree

Companion Planting Tansy is a great companion to Apricot, Peach, Apple, Plum, Berries and Pear, while Grapes are better with Nasturtium and Garlic as companions.

While there is no ill effect on Peach, Plum or Berries, grow cabbage family (Cabbage, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts and Cauliflower) and Solanum family vegetables (Eggplant, Tomato, Capsicum) away from Apricots.

Quinces, Pomegranates, Almonds, Nectarines and Cherries, oh yes, these hard to find fruit trees are available for you to grow. Most fruit trees require at least 3 hours of good sunlight a day, so be careful where you plant your tree as you want to be able to harvest healthy fruit in the next couple of years. Plant with good compost and a handful of Neutrog’s Seamungus, an organic tonic that will provide a healthy start to your fruit tree.

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Colour for Summer Gardens Gardening in hot regions comes with a whole set of challenges, hot summers, shade, heavy rains and droughts. Believe it or not there’s bound to be a suitable colour plant for your garden, no matter how hot or shady it may be. These colourful flowers and plants are hardy and will give you a little more rest too thanks to their undemanding nature.

Bellis perennis

As sweet as pretty buttons, these flowering annual plants enjoy full sun and are suitable to plant on the edge of flower beds and borders. Their growth habit is compact and highly suited to plant in containers.

Find them in red, pink and white colours.

Salvia

Hot colour that will sizzle this summer. Look for this Salvia in a fiery red colour, effective when planted with white Alyssum. Hardy and heat tolerant.

Gazania

An all-time South African favourite.

They thrive under hot and dry conditions, a water wise annual perfect for our summer conditions.

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Magical

White Summer nights

Glorious evenings under dark skies and twinkling stars with a breeze gently capturing lingering flower scents . . . Summer night bliss!

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Introduce a white moonlight garden in an area close to your entertainment area. Plant white Azaleas, Magnolias, Hydrangeas, Arums, Bougainvilleas, Gardenias, Murraya, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’ and Allysum to light up your garden at night. Consider planting some of these plants near the entrance of your home.

When your visitors arrive at the front door at dusk, they will be greeted by visible white flowers.

Village Candles

Not only are these luminous blooms beautiful to look at, but many of them have intense night fragrances and attract wonderful white nocturnal insects for a full sensory experience.

Lavender – Lavender flowers with notes of Tonka bean.

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Indulge your senses this Summe­r with a large selection of beautiful Village Candles. Our Summer favourites: Gardenia – Gardenia flowers with notes of Jasmine, Lily, Tuberose and Narcissus.

Pure Linen – Rose, Jasmine and Lavender with notes of Lily, Wood accord, Sandalwood and Musk.

Beautiful Rose Gardens in Summer How to Plant a Rose in 5 easy Steps 1. Roses should be watered thoroughly before planting.

2. Dig a hole approximately 50cm by 50cm.

3. Add a small handful of Neutrog’s Seamungus to the planting hole. Spade in some compost to loosen the soil. Mix the soil you took out of the hole with more compost.

4. Remove the rose from the bag. Carefully place in the hole and shovel the extra soil around the new plant. Plant the Rose with the crown slightly deeper than the original soil. The crown or bud union should be about 3cm under the soil.

5. Gently firm the Rose into its new home and water well. Stand back and watch it grow!

6: Feed with Neutrog’s Sudden Impact for Roses after you see the first signs of growth to ensure beautiful, bountiful and healthy roses!

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Fun Summer party settings to enjoy lovely Summer evenings

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Concrete eight-seater white table with benches and other variations available at selected GardenShop stores.

Brightly coloured medium and small party paper pompoms.

Silk white Orchids Coloured outdoor party lights

Brightly coloured party paper rosettes

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Ornamental Hanging Birds

Great dĂŠcor and gift inspiration!

Christmas at GardenShop A Classic Christmas

Various Ornamental Baubles

Ornamental hearts

A Shabby Chic Christmas Paper Decorations

Vintage Succulent Flower Boxes

Ornamental Bird Boxes

Pastel Shabby Chic Photo Frames

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Shabby Chic Gift Parcels

A Christmas in the garden

Red and White Lanterns

Outdoor Garden Set Green, Red and White Crepe Paper Stars

Christmas PREVIEW Open evenings

Christmas Lights, battery operated

FREE EVENT

Evenings devoted to showcasing GardenShop’s premium Christmas Gift Range for 2013.

October 31, 2013, FloraFarm, Johannesburg | 6pm GardenShop FloraFarm, North Rand Road, Boksburg RSVP 011 894 2377 or info.ff@gardenshop.co.za

November 6, 2013. Menlo Park, Pretoria | 6pm

Greenlyn Village Centre, Cnr Thirteenth and McKenzie Road, Menlo Park RSVP 012 460 5137 or info.mnl@gardenshop.co.za

November 7, 2013. Broadacres, Johannesburg | 6pm

Broadacres Shopping Centre, Cnr Valley and Cedar Ave, Broadacres RSVP 011 465 4216 or info.bds@gardenshop.co.za

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Herbs for Pets

The GardenShop Herb Collection has been extended to our four

legged­friends. You can now find potted selections of beneficial herbs for cats and dogs. Improve the overall health of your pet and signs of bad breath by simply chopping and sprinkling a fresh tablespoon of appropriate herbs to their food once a week. Alternatively, plant these pots in a spot where your cat or dog has direct access to their favourite herb plant!

A healthy pet is a happy pet and here is a list of plants highly recommended in your pet garden: • Digestive Support: these herbs have a beneficial effect on the digestive system and ease discomfort: Dog Grass, Cat Grass, Pet Grass, Lemon Grass, Rosemary, Thyme, Fennel, Mint and Coriander.

• Arthritis and Inflammation: adding these herbs to their food will reduce inflammation and ease discomfort: Feverfew, Comfrey leaves, Celery, Parsley and Yarrow.

• Tonic Herbs: mix these herbs regularly with their food to promote general health: Parsley, Comfrey leaves, Pennywort, Borage and Yarrow.

• Worms & Parasites: weekly addition to food will minimise the population of worms and parasites, promoting overall pet health: Yarrow, Thyme and Oregano.

For external use the following selection of herbs can be applied as a topical tea. Brew the herbs and let it cool to room temperature. Using a plant mister, lightly spray onto the affected area. This way you get the full benefit of the herb without worrying about your pet licking off oily and greasy ointment salves. Regular daily application is needed until symptoms improve.

• Flea Protection: a topical spray or a sleeve filled with the following herbs will deter fleas: Pennyroyal, Rosemary, Tansy and Pyrethrum.

• Skin Care: internal and topical application will keep the coat and skin healthy and reduce irritation. Internal and topical: Calendula, Thyme, Chamomile and Lavender. Only for external use: Southernwood.

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While fresh herbs are best for either

internal or external use, you can dry your excess herbs for storage and wintertime. Use dried herbs the same way as fresh, but only use about half of the volume of the dried herb as you would of the fresh

Pet Promotion My #Pawsome Pet

In the spirit of giving and the festive season ahead, GardenShop will donate 1 tin of dog food to Barking Mad for every #Pawsome Pet post!

How to participate: • Like GardenShopSA on Facebook • Post a pic of you and your awesome pet and a short description of what makes them #Pawsome • It’s that simple Promotion runs to the end of December 2013.

Promotion posts are open to all pet owners.

We look forward to delivering a ton of food in the New Year!

The www.barkingmad.co.za website is the most popular animal welfare site in South Africa and a central point for shelters and the public looking to adopt or find homes for animals. Barking Mad’s DogtownSA is a Pro Life Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Midrand that takes in long term dogs and dogs that have been deemed “problem dogs” from other shelters and provides them with the best care and rehabilitation programmes. All the money raised through their Click to Feed project helps raise food for over 30 rescue centres around South Africa.

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Birdlife is all a twitter at GardenShop

Indigenous plant choices to attract birds to the urban garden.

With the right shrubs and plants, you can tempt even more birds into your garden by providing them with cover in which to roost, hide or nest.

Other plants provide food in the form of berries and seeds.

Wild Bird Feeders, Bird Care, Bird Food and Accessories, it is

our extensive range of Wild Bird products that people continue

to come back for. Your garden comes alive with our selection of quality bird food and bird feeders. The GardenShop Birding Department is super packed, leaving you spoilt for

Freylinia tropica, commonly known as the Honeybell Bush

choice and the exciting chance of attracting and caring for a wide and diverse variety

• Hardy shrub with either blue-lilac or white flowers in the Spring and Summer • Plant height of 1.5m

of wild birds.

Carissa macrocarpa ‘Green Carpet’, commonly known as the Natal Plum

• Fragrant white flowers followed by red to purple edible fruit • Plant height and spread of 30cm x 60cm • Thorns

Olea europaea subsp. Africana, commonly known as the Wild Olive

• Medium sized tree of approximately 10m • Hardy • Black berries in the summer

Premium Flip Top Suet Feast Feeder • Large lid opening for improved filling and easier cleaning.

• Will look great in any garden

Nectar Feeder

Beach Hut Nest Box • Pine with attractive cedar tiled roof • 32mm entrance hole suitable for many species including Sparrows

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Seed Bell for Wild Birds

Suet Cakes, Suet Crumble and Suet Balls for Wild Birds

Country Cottage Nest Box • Pine with attractive red cedar tiled roof • 32mm entrance hole suitable for many species including Sparrows

Bird Food from GardenShop:

• D Ring attached for ease of mounting on a wall, post or tree trunk

• Suet Slabs • Suet Balls

• To clean, simply remove screw at the bottom of the door and rotate to gain access to the chamber

• Seed Balls • Peanut Bird Pudding

• H 29.5cm x W 19.5cm x D 14.5cm approx

• Peanuts

Our exclusive birding products bring your garden to life!

Black Steel Fatsnax Feeder Glazed Seed Feeder Bird Feeders from GardenShop: • Glazed Apple Feeders in various colours • Cast Iron Poppy Feeders • Glazed Seed Feeder

Roosting Pouch • Natural woven materials provide shelter • H 24cm • Ready to hang

• Black Steel Fatsnax Feeder • Glazed Peanut Feeder

Hive Roosting Pouch • Ideal for small birds • Ready to hang

Glazed Peanut Feeder

Cast Iron Poppy Feeders

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Growing Airplants

GardenShop offers a range of exciting Airplants also known as epiphytes – which require minimal maintenance. They do not need soil to grow, obtaining water and nutrients from the air.

The best way grow Airplants is to place them on tree branches, on a tile or board. They must be in bright, indirect light.

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