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We grow a large range of Salvias, Hellebores, Herbaceous perennials, exotic Mediterranean climate plants, Deciduous and Evergreen shrubs.
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Hello Gardeners out there 🌿 we finally got summer last week up here in Mylor! As our gardens were quite soft because the weather had been quite mild with regular rain, we can see a bit of tip damage and spent damage on perennials in particular. We still have plenty of growing season left so don't be afraid to trim back plants like summer flowering Salvias and Agastaches to have them come back to flower at the beginning of autumn - looking much tidier and with more flower. This extends the interest from these plants! We recommend these plants to be trimmed by about 25-30% also a good idea to add some fertiliser at this time of year. We have in stock our very own technical grade Mediterranean blend fertiliser which is most suited to our hot and dry climate. As an example here is an image of a Salvia 'angel wings' the one on the left was trimmed and fertilised 3 weeks ago whilst the one on the right has not been trimmed.
Tupelo Grove Nursery
Agastache 'Pink/Salmon'
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Despite it being quite a dry autumn it is a very opportune time for establishing new plants and during the last few weeks, rural and domestic hedges seem to be being planted abundantly. When selecting your hedge species, apart from your own personal approval of the foliage and flower type, the plants need to be very well suited to your district as hedges are often suffering the full impact of wind, heat, frost, dry, sun. Also while most plants are happy to be tip pruned, hedge plants can occasionally be cut right back onto old wood to reinvigorate or bring the size back so they must be good at resprouting from old wood. For shady situations a rough guide to shade tolerance is the bigger the leaf the more shade it can take ie various forms of Viburnum odoratissimum. At the other extreme, he small grey leaf of Teucrium fruiticans makes this ideal for extreme heat and full sun with no ill effects. Edible hedges are also worth considering. In the photos the tall nursery hedge is Escallonia Apple Blossom. Next to the galv shed is eleagnus X ebbingei. With the red fruit is Myrtus ugni the Chilean Guava. The larger maroon fruit is Strawberry Guava, beautiful to eat in March and April, the poor thing has had an awful lot of names over the years and we are currently going with Psidium littorale var longipes. Don't forget if you are a mad Salvia collector or an ordinary gardener the autumn Salvia sales are on this Sunday 24 th from 0830 to 1200 at Fullarton Park Centre Grounds 411 Fullarton Road. Corner of Fullarton rd and Fisher st
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Hopefully that's the end of summer now and time to enjoy the garden in these calm and warm days. We will be open for all of Easter and simultaneously over at Sophie's place at Mt Barker Springs for their Open Garden on the Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday. With the heat out of the way and the soil still warm, planting conditions are about as good as it gets. There are several hundred of our plants of over 120 different species of climatically suitable plants at the Hamlyn Cottage open days and we are only one of many growers there. Most of the plants in the photo are on their way to Hamlyn Cottage. There will be plants of Geranium Rozanne there which is only sporadically available for sale and is well worth having for woodland and sheltered situations. For us the 5cm (2inch) violet / blue flowers occur continuously from late October until it's too cold in May/June. Cut back in late winter and away they go again in spring. In the photos you will notice the G. Rozanne has 5 equal petals arranged symmetrically . This is common to all Geranium species. The Pelargonium Fairy Pink for comparison is typical of Pelargoniums in that the petals are not all equal and they are arranged assymetrically. It's the easiest way to separate these 2 often confused genera. Don't forget Sophie Thomson's Open Garden, Easter Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 10am to 4.30pm every day.....cheers Ian
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