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OUTDOOR INSPIRATION
KEY TO CLIMATE ZONES
In each issue we give ideas, tips and planting
advice for different climate zones, so it’s important
to find the zone number for your area. Naturally,
there will be cooler, warmer, wetter and drier areas
in each zone, so ask a horticulturist at your local
nursery which zone best matches your conditions.It’s warming up, so stay water savvy for beautiful blooms all summer
Lift the happiness
rating of your garden
with pots of perky
petunias. Few can resist
their beguiling yet
honest beauty. With
petunias, less can mean
more when it comes to
colour, so stick to just
one or two tones. They
need sun for about six
hours a day and do
best in a good friable
potting mix with added
water-storing crystals.
Before potting, dunk
your punnet of plants
in a liquid seaweed
solution for a minute
or two to help them
establish quickly. Feed
fortnightly, deadhead
spent blooms and,
if they look straggly,
give them a haircut
with clippers to
encourage bushiness
and more flowering.All zones Ageratum,
portulaca and
sunflower.
Zones 2-5 Aster,
begonia, calibrachoa,
celosia, cosmos, dahlia,
impatiens, marigold,
nasturtium, petunia,
phlox, salvia, Sturt’s
desert pea and verbena.
Zones 6-8 Alyssum,
calibrachoa, gomphrena,
petunia, phlox, salvia,
vinca and zinnia.vegetables
All zones Capsicum,
eggplant, lettuce,
tomato and zucchini.
Zones 2-5 Beetroot,
broccoli, brussels
sprout, cabbage,
carrot, celery, endive,
pumpkin, radish
and silverbeet.
Zones 6-8 Beans,
chilli, cucumber,
marrow, squash
and sweet corn.flowers
garden diary
plant
now purrfect
petunia
Single-flowered dahlias
lure more pollinators
than the showier
double bloom types.DECEMBER 2017 BHG 85