In your Greyton Garden In September
Spring can sometimes be a very short season in Greyton, when hot weather and drying out winds suddenly arrive.
July is the best time to prune in Greyton, unless it is very cold and then this can be delayed to early August. All depends on how ready you want your roses to be for the Greyton Rose Fair. The purpose of pruning is to stimulate growth and produce flowers. Pay particular attention at this time of year to roses, fruit trees, hydrangeas, evergreen plants (citrus, camellias) and bougainvillea and other plants that need shaping.
Brief Guidelines to pruning
Feed all the pruned plants with a general fertiliser, water them well and renew the layer of mulch around them.
Moss can be very dangerous on pathways or garden steps in rainy weather. Kill it off with boiling water, copper sulphate or moss killer, or blast it off with a pressure spray.
Water azaleas, camellias and magnolias regularly or they will drop their flower buds.
Do not forget to keep spring bulbs moist and to feed them with bulb fertiliser.
Take care to stake plants and check and replace ties. Ties can do a lot of damage to plant tissue if they become too tight. Prune back ornamental grasses that have become brown.
Good herbs to grow in winter are thyme, origananum, chervil, parsley, sage, hyssop and yarrow. Also plant peas, onion seedlings, beans, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries.
After reshaping old beds, fill them with osteospermums, pelargoniums, lavenders and gazanias.
Located on your left, shortly after entering the gorgeous Greyton, is Fiore Garden Centre. A place of peace and tranquillity for you to enjoy. The secret tea garden and coffee shop is open daily for breakfast, lunch, tea, snacks and treats enjoyed in the quiet garden with the sound of the waterf...
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