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Late Autumn 2009 Newsletter
Remember, Remember the 5th Nov.
Nature’s Natural Fireworks!
Money-saving gardening starts here...
Lower bird food prices
3 tasks to get prepared for the planting season
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 Remember, Remember the 5th November
We are pleased to announce that we are now stocking fireworks for the first time at the Garden Centre. We have chosen Kimbolton Fireworks as they are a British company based over in Cambridgeshire, and they have won numerous awards for their fireworks and we are sure you will be impressed. As an introductory offer for all our Garden Club Members we will be applying 10% discount to fireworks for the next Wednesday (4th November).
Fireworks can be noisy but not all of them! We have chosen two selection boxes which are contain Low Noise fireworks, and these are more suitable for audiences with young children. Our fireworks are all categorised so for those of you looking for something louder we have an array of Roman Candle Batteries, Rockets and Fountains. We also have everyone’s favourite, Sparklers!
Nature’s Natural Fireworks!
Do come and have a look at our themed Roundel display celebrating the best in autumn tints and colour together with a wide range of edible pumpkins and squashes. Jackie and the Plant Team have really ‘gone to town’ this year to bring the best of inspirational displays. The central ‘bonfire’ includes purple-leaved Pittosporum, orange-tinted Nandina ‘Firepower’, red berberis and dogwoods, berried gaultheria and spiky grasses amongst others. This year’s autumn foliage colour has been excellent and with settled weather, these rich autumn hues really do cheer and gladden the heart now the clocks have gone back!
If you need advice, please do come and have a chat at The Plant Information Office, and we’ll get your question(s) answered
  
Money-saving gardening starts here...
Traditionally this is the best time of the year to plant many shrubs, so why not take advantage of our super multi-saving offer of 1-litre shrubs, including plenty of evergreens – including aucuba, ceanothus, pyracantha to bright stemmed dogwoods and traditional shrubs like mock orange and quince, all are priced at £4.99 each or 3 for £12. You can pick and mix on this offer to help fill those empty gaps or create a new border from scratch.
Another budget-buster is the huge range of root-wrapped roses, which are here, some 80 varieties to choose from, including HT, Floridunda, Patio, Climber and Rambler. They are well-priced at £6.99 each or any 3 for £18.
The bare-root season will be shortly with us (early November onwards), but if you need larger pot-grown hedging then we have the likes of green beech, hornbeam, gold and green privet and Portuguese laurel, in 3-litre pots, priced £7.99 each 3 for £20.
The Plant of the Month for October has been Conifers, and we still have a wide range of dwarf, choice, groundcover, specimen conifers to tempt you with as well as the usual, and ever popular hedging forms of Thuja plicata atrovirens (a great replacement for Leylandii) as well as potted yew (Taxus baccata).
Finally, we do need some frosty nights to curtail the late riotous summer bedding displays (are your displays still looking good?) to make room for those spring favourites, the colourful and fragrant wallflowers. Bare-rooted plants in named colours, dwarf and tall mixtures, in packs of 10, at £2.99 are excellent value.
STOP PRESS Lower bird food prices STOP PRESS
Do you like feeding the wild birds but are finding it rather expensive? The costs of ingredients are subject to wild fluctuations but in some cases they are below their recent peaks. This is good news and has allowed us to REDUCE the price of some products. For instance: Tub of 50 fat balls - was £8.99* now £7.95; 2.5kg Sunflower Hearts - was £7.99* now £5.99; 2.5kg Niger Seed - was £7.99* now £6.50; 2.5kg Black Sunflower Seed - was £4.99* now £3.99 and 3kg Peanuts - was £5.49* now £4.99. Grab your feathered friends a bargain today! (Higher prices were our prices up until 26th October 2009.)
Three tasks to get you prepared for the planting season
- New areas you are planning to plant this coming season will need clearing of all tough perennial weeds. Remember to remove and any compost annual weeds (minus their seed heads) and it’s a good time to set up a compost heap if you are going to produce plenty of composting material.
- Now we have had a drop of rain, do get on with the soil preparation – working well-rotted manure over the area to be planted is one job worth doing. Dig over and incorporate the material using a fork – this gets the material mixed in well and is easier on the back!
- Once the soil is improved, consider using landscape fabric to cut down weeding and to help retain valuable moisture. This permeable membrane will save you so much time in the future, so it’s worth budgeting for it. Remember if you do lay the fabric down, it’s a good idea to work fertiliser such as bone meal into the soil before you apply the fabric. Normally you cut a cross into the fabric and plant through this. Plant roots can still be treated with Rootgrow ® prior to planting, so don’t forget to use this when planting!
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