Archive for June, 2008
Planting bearded iris
I managed to plant out those bearded iris that arrived last Friday. I was very busy over the weekend but I managed to find some time to plant them out because it’s not a good idea to leave them in the bags they came in.
Since I only have 1 rhizome to each species of bearded […]
Published by Admin on June 30th, 2008 tagged Propagation | Comment now »
My bearded iris have arrived!
Remember those beautiful bearded iris I ordered on the internet? Well guess what? They’ve arrived! YAY! Actually they stuffed up the delivery and sent it to my neighbor at work. Lucky they didn’t return it and finally got hold of me to go pick them up.
Here they are! There are 7 different kinds with different […]
Published by Admin on June 27th, 2008 tagged Plants | Comment now »
Recycling potting mix
After digging up the dahlia tubers in the last post I have some used potting mixes left over. Usually I would throw them into the compost mix to be mixed up with the rest of the compost but it’s not a good idea to put too much of used potting mix in the compost.
So in […]
Published by Admin on June 17th, 2008 tagged Soil & Planting Medium | Comment now »
Digging up dahlia tubers
Its officially winter and the weather’s gone really cold. Most of my flowering perennials have gone into hibernation including the dahlias. They stop growing, their flower buds shrink and dry off, the leaves start to yellow and mildew has started to grow on them.
Here’s my potted dahlias, yes I know they’re supposed to be grown […]
Published by Admin on June 16th, 2008 tagged Maintenance | 1 Comment »
Ordering Bearded Irises
I’ve finally found a place that sells all the different bearded irises I wanted to get and it’s an online store based in the Dandenongs. At first I thought of visiting them to get my bearded irises but they’re only open half a day on Saturday and closed on Sunday. There’s no way I can […]
Published by Admin on June 15th, 2008 tagged Plants | Comment now »
Growing waratahs
I used to think that Australian native plants are boring and not worth growing in my backyard. That was years ago but now I’m starting to like them more and more each day, especially the waratahs and proteas. Not only are these plants more suited to the Australian conditions they are also unique usually found […]
Published by Admin on June 9th, 2008 tagged Plants | Comment now »
How deep to plant your bulbs?
I used to worry about how deep I should be planting my bulbs into the ground. Planting too shallow the plant may fall over and planting too deep the plant may not grow? Nowadays I don’t care how deep to plant them anymore.
The truth is you shouldn’t worry about how deep these bulbs should be […]
Published by Admin on June 8th, 2008 tagged Propagation | 1 Comment »
Looking for Chrysanthemum
One of my favourite flowers is the Chrysanthemum but sadly they are not one of the most popular flowers in Australia. The only time you can see them being sold is around Mother’s Day in May and the rest of the year? Nothing!
Chrysanthemum flowers are more popular among the Asian countries where there are also […]
Published by Admin on June 4th, 2008 tagged Plants | 2 Comments »
Improving your soil
When I started gardening my backyard was a patch of hard rock solid clay only weeds seem to be able to grow in it. There was much to be done even though the people who sold us the house did some landscaping to make the garden look a bit nicer. Unfortuantely what they really did […]