June 2019 - Andrea Whitely Garden Consultant

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Some people like to cozy up by a fire with a hot cuppa and a good book in winter but us gardeners know that it’s an opportunity to get out into the garden in between rain breaks and check out the bones of the garden and see what needs trimming and what needs changing up.

As always, I am excited to get things done without sunscreen and keeping hydrated.

Here’s a list of jobs that I will be attending to this month

Raking Leaves

One of the most satisfying jobs to do in the garden at this time of the year is to rake the leaves off the lawns and the pathways, there’s nothing better for an instant clean-up. I recycle all of the leaves back into the garden beds but you can also add them to your compost bins.

In Perth, we are not really built for cold weather. That’s all there is to it. We kind of pretend that it never gets really cold in Perth and that the cold weather from June through to September is something that our Eastern states cousins have to endure. We complain when the temperature goes below say 23 degrees Celsius and whinge really badly if it sits at around about 18 like it is today. The wind is actually quite brutal today and our sensitive plants, also not really used to the colder days can get whipped about by the winds.

It is dark in the mornings until about 7am and gets dark again by about 530pm. I have to say that it’s really not my favourite time of the year and given the choice would be drinking champagne on a beach in Broome

The bottom line is though, that we have just come away from the driest May in history with almost no rain recorded and things were looking pretty dire for our farmers who had dry seeded in the hope of rain coming and also home gardeners who’s sandy soil has cooled but is as dry as a chip. We NEED this rain! This rain is getting through to the Wheatbelt and inland areas as well as giving our Perth gardens a really good soaking-it’s a good thing!

Month: June 2019

Winter Work-There’s Much To Be Done!

Baby, it sure is chilly out there