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25/07/2015
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Watch video | Find a Fact Sheet | | Picking Potting Mix
Presenter: Angus Stewart, 25/07/2015
Angus explains the different types of potting mix and shows how they can be customised for a wider range of uses
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Gardening Australia on iView | Weekly Gardening Action Plan | | In honour of National Tree Day, here's some arborial advice for this weekend!
Tropical Zone
Why not experiment with the deep-stem planting technique? It can produce speedy results without hand-watering: Deep Planting Fact Sheet Subtropical Zone
You don't have to plant big specimens to get big results. Tubestock trees are cheap and usually catch up with their more mature relatives: Making an Entrance Fact Sheet Temperate Zone
A few 'nurse' or 'pioneer' plants are great for sheltering slower-growing plants in tough climates: Sandy Soil Organics Fact Sheet Arid Zone
Some trees are naturally adapted to arid conditions - here are some suggestions: Diversity in the Desert Fact Sheet Cool Zone
There's still time to pick up and plant bare-rooted trees - here's how to go about it: Bare Root Trees Fact Sheet
And if you want some ideas of what to plant in the vegie patch, don't forget to visit The Vegie Guide or Download the App | Plant Pick | | On the show this week, John looks some new release plants. The plant pick this week is the Hellebore......
Hellebores are hardy plants that bring beautiful colour to a winter garden. They're from the Ranunculaceae or Buttercup family, and are herbaceous perennials, mostly evergreen and come originally from Europe and West Asia where the winters are severe. They flower from winter into spring and now there's an incredibly wide range available.
There are four main Helleborus groupings. The white flowered niger, the multi-stemmed caulescent, the clumping acaulescent and the many hued Helleborus x hybridus.
Caulescents: The Caulescent group of Hellebores are called that because of their well developed, above ground stems. They're a beautiful form of Hellebore with really attractive foliage. Peter suggests, "Treat them as much as a foliage plant as a flowering plant. They have large flower clusters, but much smaller individual flowers."
Acaulescents: The acaulescents species don't have stems. They are clumping plants and grow close to the ground. These are the wild species that hybrids were originally bred from a couple of hundred years ago. The flowers are more delicate looking and are typically much smaller than the flowers of hybrids, around the size of a ten cent piece. They are deciduous plants and die back altogether in late summer and autumn.
Hybrids: Hybrids have been bred up to have big colourful, cup-shaped flowers. Colours range from a lovely yellow and plum purple through to almost black. In the last twenty years varieties with double flowers have been developed, where, as the name suggests, each flower forms two sets of flowers within itself. There are also semi-doubles which are another very attractive form of hybridus. | | |
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