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Life&Style | AUTUMN 2022

PLANT CLINIC: poor drainage or flooding,
LAVENDER but where dry conditions
are the norm, consider
Much-loved for its fragrance, replanting into raised beds.
colourful blooms and grey Mound the soil to elevate
leaves, lavender plants plants by around 20-30cm.
have suffered through the T Lavender becomes
AUTUMN TIPS that affected many parts woody unless it is pruned
recent wet, humid summer
regularly after flowering.
of Australia. Give this plant
Use shears or hedge
too much rain or prolonged
FOR YOUR high humidity and root trimmers to cut back by at
least half after flowering, but
rot sets in. Not to worry,
avoid cutting into old wood.
here are some pointers on
GREEN SPACE caring for your lavender T A little compost or slow-
plant to keep it blooming
release fertiliser in spring is
or some troubleshooting if
ample, avoid over fertilising.
it’s looking a little worse for
In most parts of Australia
wear:
lavender benefits from
T In areas where lavender added lime when planting as
has died or is dying due to well as in autumn and spring.

Encourage fresh growth
5 before winter by hard pruning
shrubs in need of a tidy up;
Regularly tip-prune vigorous
6 autumn growth to keep
unruly shrubs in shape;

Maintain a six-weekly
7 fertilising program to promote
AUTUMN IS A wonderful time of the year: clear still Rejuvenate soils after the healthy growth and blooms in
days, fantastic colour of foliage, berries, flowers 2 rain by plunging a garden vegetable and flower beds;
everywhere you look and best of all - the weeds fork into the soil at regular
Beware of scale on native
have slowed down and falling leaves hide a myriad intervals and moving it back and 8 plants and trim off any
of sins. It is also the perfect time to cut back and forth to loosen and aerate the soil;
affected growth to attempt to
compost summer’s growth, pick the last summer Fill in the gaps in gardens by reduce the build up;
vegies, harvest herbs and plant spring bulbs.
3 planting bulbs and sowing
Finally, plant what you like.
Here’s our autumn gardening must-dos for those seeds of spring-flowering annuals;
9 This is without doubt the
who have a green-thumb:
Sow winter herbs and best month for planting most
Rejuvenate tired lawns by sowing lawn seed 4 vegies, plant strawberries native plant species, with six
1 or planting turf rolls. Fill in dips and hollows and other berries such as months to settle in before the
with top dressing beforehand; raspberries; advent of summer.

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