Private Gardens

Urban Gardens delivers gardening and horticultural services to a number of prominent Brisbane households who have a great deal of pride in their home environment.

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Indeed there is a special pleasure for Urban Gardens to take a private garden under it's wing and transform it into something beautiful that will be treasured and valued.

Peter Irving's 10 cottage garden tips

1. Raise the garden beds so you have a turnover depth of 13-20cm.
2. Plant spring annuals by the end of April if possible. Fill in any gaps later.
3. Be prepared to cut and replace cottage gardens al the time, because they grow so fast in Queensland's climate.
4. Fertilise regularly. I use Dynamic lifter, Tropic or Crop King 88.
5. Use slow-release fertiliser on lawns rather than having to fertilise every six weeks.
6. Use a cylinder mower on lawns if possible.
7. Scarify the lawns in October, February and March.
8. Give your garden plenty of water.
9. Use perennials suited to Queensland like asters, marguerite daisies, dimopotheca daisies, shasta daisies, salvias, zepranthes, spider lilies and herbs.
10. If you want a garden which changes with the seasons, you have to put the time in.

Email Bruce Douglass
mob phone 0402 535 305