A dash of purple-pink love
Perfection with perennials. It's September, the best time to plump up your garden with lavender plants.
Use different varieties together for a purple-pink splash of colour. Start pumping up your petal power with typical spring daisies like Argyranthemum frutescens or ‘Madeira’, a range of daisy bushes that will really excite you if you are daisy crazy.
Brachyscome or ‘Pacific’, is a very pretty miniature daisy range that can be used as a groundcover, a gap filler in the garden, or to flower gloriously in hanging baskets or patio containers.
Go for flower power with Osteospermum or ‘Daisybush’ as there are many ranges that have been bred from our indigenous Cape daisy, with new arrivals every year. They are great for rock gardens and containers, or wherever bright splashes of colour are needed. Then chase away the last of the winter blues with Nemesia hybrids.
Most are compact and sweetly scented and will flower repeatedly after a light trim. Another option is to skip down the garden path with Dianthus Carnation or ‘Pinks’.
As you gaze at the masses of small flowers on the voluptuous Dianthus caryophyllus or ‘Sunflor’, they will make your heart go boompity-boom! We are blessed with many different types of vivacious vygies, succulent groundcovers that might not always look appealing in other seasons but can definitely take spring to a more colourful dimension when they smother themselves in luminous, satiny flowers.
Pelargoniums are at their best at this time of the year, and there are lots of species and hybrids to choose from. They look great in the garden and are lovely for pots, especially hanging baskets, and can supply colour all summer long.
