KNYSNA NEWS - Spring is the perfect time to enliven your garden with new plants. Here are some suggestions for Spring gorgeousness.
It’s what we’ve all been waiting for – to revel in the bright colour spectrum that spring heralds.
September is around the corner and is the best month to plant trees and shrubs. They’ll offer colour and scent and also attract birds and butterflies to your garden.
• Good tree options include the paperbark acacia, fever tree, blossom tree and the forest elder.
• Clivias, commonly known as bush lilies, bring spectacular colour to the shady areas of your garden.
• Popular shrubs to look out for are felicias, polygalas, carnations, argyranthemums and pelargoniums.
• Plant climbers as the soil warms up so that new roots are encouraged to grow and establish.
Borders
• Edge shady paths and carpet beds, and brighten containers, window boxes and hanging baskets with pretty pansies and violas.
• Inject some bright orange and yellow with clivias and add the dusky-pink forest lily, which thrives in shady parts of the garden.
• Gazanias, arctotis and osteo- spermum love the warmer weather.
• Choose low growers for windy weather... such as spring-flowering ice plants or eye- catching pink, purple, orange and red vygies.
• For brightening entrances or to pep up patio containers, try lobelia, nemesia, pansy and primula. If your patio is lightly shaded, pots of clivia, fuchsia, primula and cineraria are spot on.
