Episode: Ten
Date: 10th May 2008
Presenter: Phil Dudman
Story Title: Garden Express Offer- Native Plants

It’s all about the plants in a variety! Phil Dudman shows you some fantastic tropical plants, native plants and low irrigation varieties.  Check out this weeks Garden Express Offer for a fantastic deal or if you would like to purchase any of the other featured plants just go to www.gardenexpress.com.au to see the full catalogue.

Garden Express Offer of the Week
Garden Express can offer Guru Viewers a unique collection of 10 different varieties of Native plants, valued at $100 plus postage, for only $50 including delivery. That’s a huge saving of 50%. So order your Native collection NOW for hardy, unique foliage colour delivered straight to your door. Make sure you place your order by Monday to ensure free delivery.

Featured Product: Seasol
Seasol is designed to complement a sound nutritional program and can provide benefits over and above a straight nutritional regime, i.e. not only the growth stimulating benefits of a fertiliser, but many other benefits as well, including:

• Markedly improved root mass
• Increased number of blooms
• Increased yield
• Reduced sucking insect attack (eg aphids, spider mite)
• Reduced fungal infestation (eg black spot, mildew)
• Reduced transplant shock
• Increased tolerance to adverse environmental conditions such as heat and drought
• Increased nutrient uptake

Seasol can be applied to any plant including natives and acid lovers, at any time of the year.
The root system will be stimulated at any time of the year, even winter, which makes Seasol ideal for winter transplanting.

Featured Product- Powerfeed
PowerFeed is a sister product to Seasol, and is a highly refined liquid fertiliser formulated specifically for the Home Garden Market.  PowerFeed is a fast acting soil conditioner, as well as a fertiliser. Just 50ml of PowerFeed in 9 litres of water is equivalent to the application of 10 kilograms of gypsum! The application of PowerFeed will rapidly stimulate beneficial microbial activity as well as provide a fast acting boost to the garden. Other such benefits include;

• Gives all gardens a quick acting "pick me up"
• Turns sticky clay soils in friable soils without the use of gypsum
• Stimulates beneficial microbial activity
• Reduces nitrate leaching from sandy soils by up to 67%
• Allows increased plant uptake of trace elements
• Improves moisture retention
• Increases number of flowers and fruit
• Increases shelf life of cut flowers

PowerFeed is the only product widely available in the home garden market in Australia that provides the amazing benefits of Concentrated Liquid Composts.
Featured Plant: Birds of Paradise (Sterlitzia reginae)

• A genus of approximately 5 species that are found it habitats ranging from riverbanks  to open glades in the bush of South Africa
• These long stemmed evergreen perennials have large, long stalked mostly oblong to lance shaped leaves with woody bases forming a trunk that may reach 10 meters tall
• The exotic feature of this plant is a leaf axils and consists of usually horizontal waxy, stiff, boat shaped spathes from the top of which crest like flowers often in contrasting colours emerge to create a bird like beak and head, from which its name derives
• Grow in fertile, moist but well drained soil in full sun or partial shade with shelter from strong winds

Featured Plant: Yucca (Yuccs elephantipes)

• This is a genus of approximately 40 species of rossete forming or woody shaped perennials, evergreen shrubs and erect, eventually spreading, evergreen trees from hot , dry places such as deserts, sand dunes and plains in North America and Central America and the West Indies
• This particular species is a large upright shrub or small tree with several to many sparsely branched trunks arising near ground level. Narrowly lance shaped, light to mid-green leaves which are 60cm to 100m long and are stiffly leathery  with toothed margins
• Mature plants bear hemispherical, white to cream flowers 3-4cm long and flower from summer to autumn

Featured Plant: Gevillea ‘Moonlight’ (Grevillea ‘Moonlight’ (G banksii x G whiteana))

• A genus of at least 250 species of evergreen shrubs and trees, most native to Australia , a few native to Indonesia, New Guinea and New Caledonia, found in the woodland, rainforest and more open habitats
• This particular species is a large, open strongly branched shrub or small tree, sometimes prostrate and mat-forming. Ovate, pinnate leaves, 15cm to 25cm long, with long narrow lobes are deep green above , silky haired or rust red hairy beneath
• Bares red, pink and creamy white flowers in erect cylindrical racemes, 8cm to 18cm long, mostly from late winter to spring but also at other times
• Grow in acidic to neutral soil, moderately fertile soil in full sun can be moderately frost hardy

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