Story Title: Spring Colour
Episode 1: WA's Great Gardens
Date: 3 October 2010
Presenter: Neville Passmore

Neville shows us how to get colour into the garden by using colour themed romantic plants.

Neville's Tips and Facts

• Spring is the most exciting time in the garden for most of us because so many plants come into flower that it brightens up our psyche after the dark days of winter.
• One group of plants that does a particularly good job of providing spring flowers is the perennials. These are plants usually with soft stems that last for a number of years as distinct from annuals, which grow, flower and die usually in one or two seasons.
• Now if your planning a garden colour scheme Romantic Plants have a code to help you choose and it's the colour of the hat on the label.
• Neville uses a pink theme colour and looks at the variations you can get in just these few plants.
• The Romantic Plants range comes with a mini encyclopedia of information about growing conditions, flower season, the eventual size of the plant and the best growing locations in the garden.
• Water efficiency is a question we all find ourselves asking about the plants we are about to put into our gardens and many perennials are superstars in this regard. Look out for a watering can symbol, as it is a guide to the water requirements of the chosen variety.
• Keep an eye out in your local garden centre for the hat series of romantic flowering perennials they're inexpensive, easy to grow and capable of creating a razzle dazzle flower show to make your garden the envy of the street

Contact

Swan Valley Nursery
143 Wilson Road
MIDDLE SWAN WA, 6056
P: 08 92748608
www.swanvalleynursery.com.au