Garden jobs for July

Here are a few July jobs for the garden:

• Buy camellias while they are in bloom at your garden centre
• Service your lawnmower (or get it serviced) in preparation for spring
• Brighten up your indoor spaces with a colourful cyclamen or pot of polyanthus
• Inspect stored dahlia tubers and discard any mouldy or rotting ones
• Nip off spent pansy and viola flowers to encourage new blooms
• Feed spring bulbs fortnightly with a liquid fertiliser for flowers
• Plant summer-blooming bulbs, such as pineapple lily (Eucomis spp.), calla lily (Zantedeschia hybrids) and Scarborough lily (Cyrtanthus elatus)
• Plant cascading natives that flower in winter into beds or large containers – think hardenbergia, Geraldton wax, thryptomene and ground-covering wattles
• Prune winter-blooming wattles after flowering to restrict seeding and unwanted spread
• Cut herbaceous perennials off at ground level, chop up the clippings and add them to the compost heap

Thinking ahead? Check out this article with 10 jobs to do in the patch in August.

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