Lhe a “Ae a feo NE eid ee inocu «Hanging. NTR LE Sooo ttyGRANDDESIGNS R8O PER TICKET BOOK NOW AND SAVE (Plaliraeurf EXBelgotexCarpetsIn this issue Lifestyle 46 In full bloom Daffodiis, 20 Faraway places: Sublime Blenheim 24 Inspiration: Indigenous beatles 26 Keith's choice: A grand geen 32 Small garden: Going ful enele 36 Show garden: Relaxation, harmony &balance Garden living Foodie faire Veggie patchiln May In full horvesti Naartiies From garden to table! Nice and nutty 50 Spice route: Exotic star anise 52 _Decori¥es-you-can! makeovers 57 Decor: Rise above the ardinary 60 Craft tomorrow Plant gallery 62 Craft today! Denim planter 63 Herb Telk:In May 8 Cornflower 64 Healing foods: Lettuce esse Earthbound 67 Pests & diseases! Bugging the brassicas In May: What to do in your garden! Ask Keith Rosecare: Autumn beauties ‘Ask the landscaper Practical: Winter hanging baskets Nitty-Gritty!Leat-free autumn Invasives: Nice but naughty 82 Wildlife: low-down on ladybirds 83 Ask the vet 84 Pets: How clever is my pet? 86 Bragboard Syeanss Regulars 4 Readin June 5 Eds letier 6 Chatterbox 10 Soppets andavtings 12 (etsread 14 Going sree 66 Plant puss 90 Forget me not 9% Marketplace 98 Back porch chat Meet us @ our Reader’s Days 93 Guest lists! Margaret Roberts! herb talk at Lifestyle Home Garden Centre & Hobby-X hightohts 94 Reader's Tour: Rose gardens of faly 95. Grand Designs livesSA Garden’ excusvelive coverage ofthe 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 96 JanHarmsgat s0 Agcerplaas, Cullinan: JanHarm Vorster shares upeycling decarideas Competitions On the cover, 45 WinSlumbedand beds worth R20 Cod! 87. 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Magarin, PO Bax 1802 Cs 2000 BY PHONE 5 118448 By FAX oan a BY EMAIL sagardensubstme: RATES: Soe subscription page SAGarden is published by Moia24 Magazines, a division of Naspers, 0 Hesrengrach, Cope Town, 8001 llrightsreserved, Printing: Paar Media Cape overseas iicerepenabl seigerigacackseeays the month for mayhem in my ‘garden, Ihave suddenly realised that Winter is around the corner and I still ont have a special project to do. Winter, as you probably know; is the perfect season for building a new fountain or pond, or putting up the pergola or raised bed you have aleays wanted. “The box of spring-flowering bulbs gives me nightmares (have seen bulbs sprouting inside their packets, begging for sunlight and soil, in my’ very ven living room!) The laven wants is normal pre-winter attention (T normally feed mine through the winter so that dead, yellow grass doesnt give me the winter blues). The mountains of plane trce leaves have tobe put through the shredder before going onto the compost heap, but before I can do that, swe have to get the rich, mature compost ou to make space forall the fee plant material the autumn garden produces So, the colder it gets, the more Thave toda in my garden, Its easier to doa bit of landscaping in your garden when there is less growth ~ you can see the bare 'bones’ of your garden and plan better, and you can also get in under plants to aerate the sll, add compost and then cover the beds with a lush layer of home-made compost, [also find that I visit my garden centse more frequently during this time ofthe year. This is because 1 am looking for winter-flowering plants that I can plant in pockets all around my garden to cheer me up thraugh the ‘worst ofthe chilly season. Last year’ spring flowering bus that eft inthe soil already showed their tips in March, so they are mature plants by now, and soon they wll start flowering. The new bulbs Lam adding now (you can still plant spring: flowering bulbs like daffodils, tulips reesas, isis, sparaxisand irises until the end of May) will lower later, and this means I wil have spring-flowering bulbs flowering from the beginning of winter until late spring. In fact, my gardens best season is wintet. Why don’ you join me in my winter gardening campaign this ‘Ask me questions on Facebook (look for SA Garden & SA Tuin) or send me an e-mail at liztte@sagarden, co.za. Remember ~ on our Facebook fan page we have conversations and look at images you will not find inthe printed magazine, so don miss out! Please go to ou Fan age, like’ the page and join our green community! Enjoy the last of the glorious autumn! owe ¥* ed's letter On ny { garden The cooler autumn weather often brings some unexpected showers ound ripe geoseberles top Fight lemons right) and olives (bottom rightin my garden to show you.chatter box We would love to hear from you, whether itis via snail mail, e-mail or Facebook. Write to us or show us your garden and stand the chance of winning a Linen Drawer voucher to the value of R2 600! Thank you I renewed my subscription and today received my SterKinekor Entertainment's summer mavie hamper. Thank you so much for is gift Staying on asallform vilage inthe Overberg where we only have one very small nursery, your magazine i ikea lovely bright star atving every month. Can you image two retired people acting like kids over a toy? Well that’s how the ‘mo of us act hen the magazine arrives, We have been retired forse years and just love our garden My husband's veggie garden keeps the treszer filed tothe brim, andin the late afternoons vee jst love sting in my part of the garden, the English country garden, amongst all the flowers watching the dent birds visiting fora dip inthe birdbath and an evening meal. Gardening is most fiitely balm forthe soul You and your team are doing a splendid job keeping us up to date with veagie, fower gardening, animals, interior decorating, cooking, everything none magazine. What more cana person ask for! Yonne Pretorius Warm welcome Thank you very much for you welcoming letter to SA Garde I had been buying the magazine for years and only now decided to subscribe. This magazine is one of the best an the market. Thank you forall your hard work. Ican‘twait to see the magazine every month lam from the Western Cape ‘and live near the sea. It makes gardening quite tricky, especially iF youTre from the old Transvaal Elsabe van den Hever Herb happening in Potchefstroom What a wonderful and educational morning it was! My 2012 resolutions were to gain knowledge and start, aherb garden. It was great to hear cihich herbs are used in which cfshes, and to smell and eel the hetbe wes something | had never experienced before, wae also sainformatve to hear how to go about storting herb gorden end which ones to plant was exactly that | n2s looking for I decided there andthen that I want tobe par ofthe team and subserbbed onthe spot es van der Westhulzen ton the love of rhododendrons Thisis just to sa nk you forthe interest you showed in ourefforts t0 prove that chadodendrons can be cultivated in Gauteng and also for bothering to pay us a visit. We asa rhedadendron bug and will carry on wi family have been bitten by the ith our efforts, bearing in mind that the market out there ie very limited. You have no idea what pleasure you can derive when you plant a seed not much larger than a speck of dust and it develops into a tree of great beauty. 6 SAGarden May 2012 Mitchell family Send your letters by: . lizette@sagarden.¥p.za 086 615 1404 The Editor, SA Garden PO Box 784161 Sandton, 2146den to the rescue! Awinney, please! Later take out mynotebook —_Inveference to Linah Joubert’s 19, but ithadtobe done, My and start making nates! | get so letter in your February 2012 issue ind could hardly see over ‘excited | take pictures of the pages about her battle against onion with my cell phone. The childs weed: J from Garden World one restless again (must be the sugar, day mentioned in his programme but! don'thear anything not the on Radio Sondler Grense (RSG) that “TWin the corner, not the knees. Servian is a product that helps in ‘coming and going, and nat my getting rid of nutsedge. 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Itis a damaged the leaves, but | cannot is one otherskirtwearerwith an highlight! confirm at this stage whether all the annoying child, Sympathy. The rest Adriana Tollig ttle bulbs have died. Other plants try to avoid any contact by staring were not affected atthe ncisy TVin the corer. Ed: Thank goodness forthe tyres! Would it be possible to please I give the child the sweats in Weleome to our gran family - we hope lock into the matter and find out my handbag and suddenly there you havea worderful ime with us! Do _ whether Servan is indeed effective ispeace. And then spat it:An SA leak usiqon Facebook toa (SA Garden in destraying orion weed? You Garden magazine! |makeadath & SA Tuin) tis for Bose whocamnot have the experts and right cantacts foritandstart devouring, page unit until the next magaine its the todos. by page. shelves! Although Protek advertises thatits products are available at nurseries and hardware stores we battled to get hold oft. 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Terms and conditions apply - please turn to|page 92 for competition rues. May 2012 SA Garden 7Y mite mithap | would just lke to peint out an cetor in the February 2012 issue of your outstanding magazine, SA Garden: On page 63 a photo of the red spider mite is featured, but the rite in the photo isin fact, a velvet rite. These mites are beneficial predators and one of the largest rites - up to 15 mm leng. Red spider mites are much smaller — bout 0,002 mm. The attached photo is ofa red spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) of the Tetrarychidae family, or the rospotted spider mite because of the two black spots on either side ofits abdomen, whichis digested food. (The photo was taken by Charles Grifiths ofthe University of Cape Town) | also have an invitation, wick stems from the fact that | am desperately tying to find wiling ‘arms’ and ‘eyes’ everywhere at the moment as we just don't have the time to get out in the field and collect mites ourselves. | would really appreciate it ifthe readers could send us mites (anything that is very small and running around) Mites are normally microscopic, bout you can detect them with a 10x hand lens ‘An easy way to collect them is to ‘A My garden lest 8 SA Garden May 2012 half fil plastic containers (250 ml or smaller honey containers) with 70% ‘ethanol and then cut the leaves and stems of the infected plant off into the ethanol, put the lid back ‘and shake the container wel. This way the plant material is removed (otherwise it colours the ethanol 100 green, which makes it difficult to find the mites). The process can bbe repeated (with the same plant) if ‘eft that the first time round was not sufficient. The tightly sealed containers can then be posted to the following address: ARC.PPRI, Private Bag X134, Queenswood, Pretoria (0121, I avid collectors do not like the idea of the postage costs we ‘could always arrange something, Together with the mites we also need the collector's name and surname, the date, the plant they were found en, and the location (Gown or city, suburb, farm, ete). The GPS coordinates wil also be much appreciated, but are not essential Iwill gladly assist with any information on mites you might need in the future Prof Eddie A Ueckermann, ite specialist at the ARC:Plant Protection Research Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria Reader's garden Fd: Tooked at the photo again now and saw that you ae right. We featured ‘an article on flan diseases in roses in cour March issue with a photo ofa red spider mite onthe underside ofa rose leaf which 1 personally tok, and it does Tooke the one inthe photo. What is interesting is tat the tile creature seems redish when you see it from further away, but when you are close up with a camera it actually notre at al, How does this happen? I ‘ust admit I see red when find ther inmy garden, They wreaked havoc in ‘my garden this surnme, and they sil continue te do so. ‘There is @ variation in colour in the spider mite species | mentioned - they could be green or red. Usually the green form was referred to as Tetranychus urticae and the red form as T.cinnabarinus, but the identity of these two species isa research story in its own right, a5 some taxonomists regard them as. lone species. Prof Eddie A Ueckermann My garden now. 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