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Creating Shade In The Garden

In Perth with its hot climate and long summers shade is extremely valuable and becoming harder to find especially in a suburban environment. Try spending time outside your new house in the middle of summer which is surrounded by concrete/pavers and the heat can be unbearable. There is a term used for the accumulated heat from all the buildings, concrete/pavers, roads that can be significantly hotter than what the area was when it was more heavily vegetated which is known as the urban heat island effect.

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What’s Eating My Brand New Lawn?

You might have noticed allot of small brown moths around your garden in Perth lately and allot of them. These are the adult parents of a larvae called army worm or cut worm which is wreaking havoc across Perth at the moment especially with new lawns or well fed existing lawns.

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What’s Happening To My Roses?

Due to the summer rainfall and humid weather there has been a plague of Chili thrips across Perth during the last couple of months. They have caused significant damage to roses across Perth and recovery of roses has been slow.

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Help Summer Is Here And My Lawn Is Stressed!

With only 2 watering days a week in Perth (3 days if you have a bore) and sandy soils most of which have not been improved or not improved well before laying a lawn then it is not surprising that we have issues with water penetration and retention especially as the rain stops and the weather heats up over summer.

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Lawn To Native Garden

So, the kids have moved out and you want to reduce the amount of lawn around your house or have you moved into a place with an abundance of lawn and little garden? Let’s encourage birds and beautiful native insects into the garden by installing a native garden.

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