Flower Gardening

It’s summertime, Picking summer flowers for the vase, Planting for butterflies, Fruitful berries and plants that will grow under trees.

After such a long and dry, warm spell our gardens are welcoming with open arms early autumn rains. The rain is refreshing our gardens, and they in turn are beckoning us into them. It’s time to get organised ahead of winter, and there’s plenty of variety on the gardening front. The still warm soil encourages root growth in new plantings, ahead of winter. In some ways this is the best season for sowing seeds, planting new trees, shrubs and seedlings.

The February garden is sunfilled and feeling the heat. Summer flowers are embracing the summer sun and feeling very much alive,...