WE
KNOW WHAT'S GROWING ON!!
Welcome to the first email newsletter from
the Karori Garden Centre!
This newsletter will provide information
about our latest plants and the most up to
date products, all designed to help your garden
look its best.
We’ll also have lots of gardening tips
and advice based on our personal experience,
built up over the years of running the garden
centre, and of course working in our own gardens!
In this edition:
WHAT'S
GROWING ON...
Beyond Buxus: The best examples
of the new fashion for trimming evergreen
shrubs into mounded and other topiaried forms
can be seen among our own NZ plants such as
Corokia, Sophora (kowhai), coprosma and totara.
There are several different examples in the
Garden Centre at present, so come in and have
a look.
Tip: If you are planning
a whole grouping of ‘mounds’ try
using several different plants with similar
foliage tones. This helps add texture and
interest.
Green foliage: Pittosporum Mountain Green,
Buxus sempervirens and Lonicera nitida.
Silver foliage: Corokia Silver Ghost, Santolina
(cotton lavender) and Teucrium fruiticans
Bronze Foliage: Corokia Frosted Chocolate,
Coprosma Cuppucino,
Syzigium australe.
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TAKE TIME
TO SMELL THE ROSES!
Rose Graham Thomas (pictured) is a heavenly
yellow English Rose. It's one of our favourites
with a great scent and a lovely old-fashioned
form. We have plenty of healthy looking bushes
in store now.
We recommend you feed your roses with Burnett’s
Gold Rose Fertiliser, a top
quality slow release fertiliser which is best
suited to pots and garden beds. Burnett’s
Gold lasts well and is economical, feeding
up to 40 roses from one pot.
Spraying: Our experience is that the insecticide
Confidor has a long lasting
effect in helping to keep the aphids down.
Within the garden environment Confidor acts
only on the sucking insects, leaving beneficial
predators alone and assisting in correcting
that all important balance in the garden.
For a complete rose spray, you can also combine
Confidor with Yates’ Fungus
& Mildew Spray.
Tip: If you have less than
five roses to spray come and get a can ready
mixed Bayer Rose & Ornamental
Spray, a combination aerosol that
you can use in 5 minutes!
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HOT
SHOPPING LIST
- TUI Slow Release Lawn Fertiliser
– continuous feeding for 3 months
- Burnett’s Gold Fruit &
Citrus Fertiliser – feed
fruiting plants in pots or garden beds
- Yates’ Nitrosol
– A great product to water on for
establishing newly planted shrubs, annuals
and herbs.
- Osmocote for Natives
– formulated especially for our New
Zealand plants that need a low phosphorous
food.
- Tui Hydrangea Blue –
get the colour you want on your hydrangea
flowers!
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ORGANIC
COMPOST - MAKING THE
MOST OF YOUR GARDEN SOIL
Not all of us have the room
for a working composting area. Our soils are
generally light in organic matter and tend
to be predominantly clay based. To make the
most of your garden the soil must be regularly
treated to liberal doses of good compost twice
a year.
Our main supplier, Tui, makes really great
organic compost in 50 litre bags for $9.95.
To get even better results in soil texture,
add Tui Garden Galore sheep pellets or talk
to us about the really good results you can
get by using Gypsum and organic Nu Fert.
Tip: 2/3 soil, 1/3 plants
for a great garden..
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MAKING
YOUR GARDEN
BLOOM WITH OUR LATEST SPECIAL
Trugs, trugs and more trugs...
Bright, fun colours, easy to carry, light
on your back and so useful. We wouldn’t
be without ours. And, of course, if you don’t
want to use it for weeds and clippings you
can carry your compost around in it, or your
baby!!!
These trugs are usually $24.95. Come and
see us, say you have read our email newsletter
and you will get a great discount of almost
20%! Take them away for only $20 each. They
make fabulous presents, together with a colourful
Wonder Weeder – only $3.00.
Anne
