Page 54 - Woman's Weekly - New Zealand (January 2020)

weeklyGARDEN

We all make mistakes
– some of us more
than others. Lack of
time, lack of knowledge
and, in my case, lack of
judgement can be contributing
factors. So check out my A simple design drawing
definitive list of common can save mistakes in the
gardening mistakes to avoid garden, and give you
in the coming year. You’ll be all a point of reference
down the track.
sorted in five minutes – not.
Trial & error! y biggest gardening
mistake was probably
Lee Ann Bramwell Mbuying a two-acre
GARDEN EDITOR block surrounded by a stream
in a valley in the subtropical far
north where sudden torrential
downpours are a fact of life –
ergo: flooding.
In three devastating floods,
I’ve lost much of the garden,
and neighbours downstream
are probably admiring some
of my precious plants from my
cedar recliners as we speak.
The upside is that, as Anne
Make no tomorrow is a day with no
of Green Gables used to say,

mistakes in it yet. Sadly, this
scenario hasn’t stopped me
making the same mistakes
MISTAKE I’m getting on top of it now.
more than once, but I think

And it means you get to
learn from my mistakes!
BAD PLANNING
Planning doesn’t just mean
writing a list of what you’re
going to get at the garden
centre. It means starting
COMMON GARDEN
ERRORS TO AVOID

If you have time, watering by
hose is the go. It’s good for the
plants, good for the environment
Ignore the plant label at and good for your state of mind.
your peril. This Albizia
julibrissin has trebled in
size in three years and is
now very difficult to trim.

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