A few weeks after the beginning of Spring is a good time to collect some inspiration for your garden. Check out the local Botanic Garden, take a looksee in open gardens, a visit to the Garden Club, or else a simple walk around the neighbourhood to see what grows well and what goes well.
Thalia Narcissus with white accents (orchid narcissus) and Fritilaria contrasting with green and blue.
Some of our native species stand out in spring:
Pittosporum eugenioides (also known as Tarata) is here just in time for our bees and bumble bees to take advantage of the massive amounts of nectar and sweet dribblings that’s on offer.
Native bees in particular will come and visit.
Amalanchier canadensis (the white flowers) are lovely northern hemisphere trees that end up giving you berries for your sandwiches. They are also known as Canadian Shadbush.
Their white flowers go very well with Chaenomeles (Japanese Quince).
Mind you, the only trouble with Chaenomeles is the fact that their spikes are extremely sharp, making pruning a bit tricky.
Combinations of various plant species allows different colours to be seen from different angles.
Foliage of many plants interact with some flowers. This is what the exact same part of the garden looks like from different angles.
The idea is to combine them to allow contrasts in sun and shade, which means looking in different directions will show new patterns.
Hebe, Euphorbia, and bright yellow Spiraea japonica “Gold Flame”.
When it comes to patterns, some plants create wonderful three-dimensional pieces of art. This Kowhai has dense foliage in random directions.
It is a perfect spot for our birds to build a nest, after flowering has finished…
Nectar feeders will visit regularly so check them out!
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You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
There'd be.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
For a couple of weeks in the spring now, and
if you're looking for a little bit of inspiration, a
little bit of color in your garden, something a bit
new men in the garden, Rude Climb passes here with
some tips this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning sir, Good morning Jack. You're absolutely right. This
is the time to actually get inspiration from all over
the place. And it's nice to know, isn't it. I've
been away from home for about three weeks, so it's
to be quite soo as lovely coming home last night
again and seeing how things have changed. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh yeah, what another last three weeks? Yeah yeah, three weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That is so much. In the springtime, the CoFe is
flowering like billy. Oh we've gotten oh we've got all
sorts of things flowering at the moment. But some stuff
has changed as well. But anyway, the idea I think
that people would would like to know is that if
you really want to know what your garden is going
to look like, if you're working on the garden, for instance,
(01:09):
you can do a few things. You can go of
course for the botannic guns. I've always been a fan
of that, especially Hagley Park Potanica. Well you know what
I mean, just fabulous. But also the botanic gun in
Auckland is unbelievably great. It's fabutous. But there's another one
thing that I've just noticed as a Dutchman, and it
(01:29):
is when you go walking around your own area where
you live, you know, like half an hour walk, and
you see people's gardens in the neighborhood with plants that
fit where you live or plants that work that work
where you live, and it's absolutely lovely to work with
your community if you like on working out exactly what
(01:52):
looks well, what grows well, et cetera. And sometimes what
I used to do anyway in Titiam and lang Home
and so on, I would go up the drive and
knock on somebody's door and say, excuse me, you've got
this what is the that's that is ata? There's an
amalek here or something. You get to say, and you
(02:14):
know what the nicest stream is Jack that all these
gardeners will say you want to cut in?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And that's exactly how it works. So I decided a
couple of weeks ago to go too Julie's garden here
and noticed that she does it all the time. She
has this wonderful stuff of contrasts, I suppose. So I've
taken a whole lot of pictures and I know Levy
is going to put them on the on this on
the website. But there's a wonderful example for what of
(02:44):
the for instance of the Amlenkia canadensis, the white flowers
and a Canadian shed bush we call it, which actually
I kind of knew from my Canadian friend or Bikiwi
trust anyway, but she put that not just on his own,
but with the background of canomalies, which is the Japanese quints,
which is a red, beautiful red flower as well, and
(03:07):
they contrast absolutely gorgeous. So I thought I put them
in there because this is something that a lot of
people don't know. The problem with canomalies those is very sharp.
You've got to be careful when you go so you
don't get all these hassles. And then the last bits
of photographs that I put together was a typical thing
(03:28):
of many different things that you see from different angles,
and every different angle makes a completely different garden, so
we have euphobia. For instance, we've got heavy and Spiraea japonica.
And if you look at those three things from three
different angles with all the others, you suddenly realize that
(03:48):
your garden has many, many different angles to work with.
And that is exactly how you put them together.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Fantastic. Yeah, and that's a great pot I like you say,
we're going to make sure those are up on the
News talksp website. Yeah, yeah, that's great, thank you, Thank you,
rud Hews. A too early to start getting in like
basil and stuff like that, right.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now, No, now do it that really?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, yeah, yeah, and I think I think next week,
if you've got apple trees, I think you should do
something about coddling moth and I'll give you the way
to go without getting these blinking caterpillars in your fruit. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Hey, thank you sir. All right, we can't catch your
own root climb past in the garden for us this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
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