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THROUGH OUR EYES EXHIBITION (THE TREE OF US + 1) MILLICENT GALLERY

June 25 - July 23

By Calum Haygarth Landscape Architect & Horticultural Consultant

We have probably reached the coldest part of winter and certainly a shock to the system after a relatively mild and dry summer and Autumn. The very cold temperatures in past weeks was certainly a wake up call for those who pruned their roses too early and the new shoots were burned off by the cold and those frosts in most parts of the region.

for sping, which I think is going to be early this year. We are being inundated with very late online and local orders hence stock will run out quickly and why we want you to get your orders in or even better purchase from our retail outlet in Mount Gambier at 167 Bay Road. This can only mean one thing - massive sale.

July 1-31

Winter is, of course, the most popular time to be planting dormant ornamental trees, fruit trees and nut trees, berries, table and wine grapes and any deciduous varieties we dig out of the paddock and sell in their bare rooted form. Many other plants can be planted in this way too, including bush and standards roses, raspberry canes, strawberry runners, asparagus crowns, rhubarb crowns and seed potatoes and we have an abundance of these in the nursery at present. We have been flat out processing tree orders for both our online orders and local ones but readers need to ensure they order in time too as a lot of our trees are now sold interstate through our mail order part of the nursery and local people can miss out.

SOUTH EAST ART SOCIETY OPEN ART AWARDS RIDDOCH ARTS & CULTURAL CENTRE • MOUNT GAMBIER

July 7 - August 27

Limestone Coast Advanced Trees at Gardenarium and Limestone Coast Roses are the largest growers and suppliers of trees, fruit and nut, and thousands of roses direct from the paddock to you. This, of course, means big savings in that our pricing is grower direct and in line with all our pricing within the Gardenarium Group of Companies we are anywhere between 25%-40% off normal pricings and still can offer superlative service and fully qualified staff on hand to help with all your needs.

Yes, that’s right, across all of our fruit trees from dwarfs, including the four new dwarf pear varieties for 2023 and a new release dwarf Cherry also. As full sized cherry trees grow so so high and vigorous and have very upright, brittle growth, the birds tend to get the fruit before you do, so add one of these to your orchard and net them easily. Pears have similar growth habits too meaning dwarf is the way to go. We have limited numbers of these especially the brown pear dwarf tree (similar to Beurre Bosc) which is great for poaching, pizzas etc. This season also sees the release of the new skinny plum trees that is ideal for smaller gardens, tight spaces and pots (see facing page) which has been very sought after and again we only have limited numbers remaining. Now is your chance to plant this amazing plum and reap all of the health benefits, this complements all of the other older well know plums that are now available in a dwarf form for smaller gardens or pots.

MAYA LINNELL IN CONVERSATION WITH GRETEL SNEATH PORT MACDONNELL COMMUNITY COMPLEX

July 9

BARBARA HANRAHAN EXHIBITION NARACOORTE REGIONAL GALLERY

Until July 16

We offer daily delivery services to Portland, Port Fairy, Warrnambool and beyond, right through to Hamilton and Horsham and Ballarat in Victoria and a new connection direct to Mildura which has been extremely popular with those who can see our television adverts beamed from Renmark, as well as all coastal ports up to Meningie, Naracoorte, Millicent, Robe, Kingston, Penola, Lucindale, Keith and Bordertown, not of course forgetting Mundulla and new links have just been set up for our larger trees to Geelong and the Surf Coast. Adelaide and Melbourne are overnight door to door .

We also have our popular ornamental trees have a minimum 25% +off (see facing page). The new releases of 2022 are an amazing narrow growing ornamental pear crossed with an Ornamental Crab apple called CapitalApple which is now the narrowest ornamental in Australia. The Mini Capital which we can’t keep up with is still available in good numbers but be quick as we sell most of them interstate and cannot grow enough of them. Along the same lines in narrow trees is the new Flowering Crab Apple Raspberry Spear and Ivory Spear . These two form narrow columnar trees with flowers, and autumn foliage. Add to this the new weeping flowering cherry Pink Cascade, a narrow weeping tree but this time with darker, more vibrant flowers than Pink Snowshowers and again great for small gardens.

LADIES COUNTRY GOLF WEEK BLUE LAKE GOLF CLUB MOUNT GAMBIER

From July 24 event

Over the past month and a half we have been busy packing our orders and distributing our lovely stock around the region and right across Australia. During COVID we saw three times our normal online sales across Australia and whilst this has eased slightly the demand is still huge for our very low priced, quality trees also our retail outlet in Mount Gambier, so its been rather a hectic times with all staff working beyond flat out to try and process all orders in a timely manner whilst trying to process the 1000s of trees and roses we are bringing in from the paddocks. As the lowest priced rose grower in Australia, you are assured of quality stock and no over inflated prices.

We need to start wrapping up bare root sales in order to prepare

Most of our bare rooted stocks of everything dormant are now processed and in the sales area so dont leave it too long or you will miss out. Bring your ute, truck, trailer, horse float, whatever and load up with bargains whilst stocks last.

If you cannot get here jump on the website ( bare with us as its being updated at present) www. gardenarium.com.au or www. limestonecoastroses.com.au or simply ring (08)8723 1325 and we can deliver to you. Sale specials run until July 2, unless sold out before hand, so don’t leave it until the last minute as we have already been quite busy with the sale being advertised locally on TV here for about a week. Gardenarium and the Limestone Coast group is located at 167, Bay Road, Mount Gambier, 1.3kms south of the Blue Lake. Open Tues-Sunday 10–5pm.