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Friday 9th August, 2013

What's your addiction LOL

Hi

Awesome New Maples

When Im looking at a plant catalogue, all reason goes out the window and about 6 weeks ago I was looking at this catalogue of maples and spied high worked weeping maples.

Now many do ask what is H/W high worked. High worked means that the plants grafted at an appropriate standard height as opposed to L/W which are all grafted at near to ground level. I have to add that technically there is no real difference to either other than high worked start off at the right height and low worked have to be trained to be that height.

Anyways I was cruising through this catalogue and a few maples ended up being over 300 with H spewing about what do you think you're doing. Well he just has to understand the plant nerd in me as I also bought everything we didn't have or I hadn't heard of  before. After all we have to have something here to tempt you and me!  There are often and quite vocal differences and exchanges of opinion, must be the opposite sides of the personality charts that we are.... LOL   I was reasonably vocal in return when another couple hundred feijoas arrived in a truck that I didnt know were coming..... But they are such a good buy!! and they are at $15.99

It ended up being Craig and myself potting them as they arrived on a day when we were a bit short of the team and it was just so exciting potting these.  I was then raving to Anthony, our garden designer, about the Maple Chishio and Mikawa Yatsuba on high stems and all the weepers that were also on high stems. The other ones that caught my eye, was a smaller New Zealand bred Maple called Winter Flame with just awesome red stems and there were many others that we just had to have. I will qualify and say that there could be worse addictions.

Is This Spring

Well if that was winter, are we now into spring? Always hard to know and if the weather and temperatures that we have had lately are anything to go by then Id say we are into spring right now. The problem in the Waikato is that sometimes it can turn on us and we get a couple of wicked frosts. If my garden and nursery is anything to go by then bud burst on the pip and stone fruit is imminent so if you want to get that last copper spray on, then now is the time to do it.

On the rose front, those roses need to be have been pruned now or in the next week or so as Im sure that leaf burst is just around the corner. if you are planning on using Copper on your roses in the garden then you need to get onto it as once the leaves are out you need to change to shield or super shield.Fruits trees always tend to be a tad later but these all need to be pruned ASAP  now. 

I caught up with Chris this morn and we both tend to agree that one has to live with a certain amount of curly leaf but with good feeding cultural good habits and the odd spray with copper etc then one should be able to get a crop, but home she trotted and wrote this piece for me...

Curly Leaf is a fungal disease botanically known as Taphrina deformans which mostly affects stone fruit such as Peaches and Nectarines however Almonds and Apricots may also be attacked. While Curly Leaf will not kill your fruit tree/s if allowed to persist year after year it will have an impact on tree growth and fruit production. The best time to spray for Curly Leaf is right now  just as the buds on your stone fruit are starting to swell. We recommend using a Copper Spray such as Liquid Copper. Don't worry if you still have signs of Curly Leaf even though you have taken the time to spray. The leaves that are puckered and blistered will fall off and a second set of leaves will develop normally. However it is important to clean up the fallen leaves that are diseased as a good preventative. You may also like to make a diary note to spray any affected trees (and the ground beneath them) in autumn, after leaf fall, with Lime Sulphur just to ensure you get rid of any lurking fungal spores. (Dont forget that Apricots are lime sulphur shy so dont use on these.) Then treat the tree with Copper again as above. Keeping your trees generally healthy with regular feeding and a preventative spray programme should help keep the dreaded Curly Leaf at bay and from then on everything should be just ‘peachy'!

While on spraying your stone fruit with copper reminded me of a couple of new additions  to the stone fruit range that we have this year. Peach Coconut ice and Scarlet O'Hara,  We have again this year the Flatto range and of course that dark red leaved Nectarine variety Mabel

We have been getting onto it it in our garden lately and roses are pruned, beds are weeded and we will get some new mulch put down. Its also time to think about feeding all your plants with fertiliser. Spring is the time of year to give everything a big push forward and and from now on, give everything a feed. Established roses can get a handful of  of what I call instant rose fertilser. hedges citrus fruit trees all need feeding now. Most plants will love everything you give them from mulch to proprietary ferts. If you fed well then disease and pests will be minimised as the plant will have its on  natural healthy vigor

 What else arrived this week

Large grade Camellias. We keep getting asked for a large grade of these and so I have got 100 of different varieties in. They are approx 100cm by say 50 to 60 cm wide but thick and bushy as they are open ground grown. Priced to sell they would normally  be at least $49.99 but just $39.99 but be in quick if you want to check these out.

10 x Roger Hall 10 x Black Lace 12 x Moisho 9  x Elegans Champange 12 x Elegans Splendour 5  x Debbie 8  x Jurys Yellow 6  x Nuccios Pearl 10 x Anticipation Variegata 6  x Twinkle Star 6  x Margaret Davis 6  x Nuccio Jewel.

Hellebore doubles and Anenome centres. These are just drop dead gorgeous but you really have to come to the nursery and choose your own as there is just so many different looks as I imagine that they are a superior seedling range.

         

Feijoas, Harrys buy of the week LOL he couldnt help himself and I just didn't say a word........ Five cultivars being Apollo, mammoth, Geminii, Triumph, Unique. Nice busy plants $19.99 these just $15.99

We could do with the rain if it comes this weekend as I have to say that it is already quite dry, we even had to put the irriagtion going in the nursery last week. Its been all go for us and I guess that with this warm weather its only going to get busier but its been beautiful weather for getting in the garden.

Have a good weekend 

Cheers

Lloyd, Harry and the Wairere Team

Make it a Wairere weekend where gardening's not a drag

Wairere Nursery
826 Gordonton Road, RD 1, Hamilton
07 824 34 30
www.wairere.co.nz

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Roses in the beginning (22nd February, 2013)

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Different Coppers (29th June, 2013)

Pendula or weeping (5th July, 2013)

All in a days work (19th July, 2013)

Daphne (26th July, 2013)

Hydrangea Secrets (2nd August, 2013)

..... Maples high worked

Magnificent Mags (16th August, 2013)

Mags Part two (23rd August, 2013)

Hedges (30th August, 2013)

The fluffy stuff (12th September, 2013)

Fluff and Stuff (12th September, 2013)

PC Irises (20th September, 2013)

Beardless Irises (27th September, 2013)

Lavender (4th October, 2013)

The Ilams (12th October, 2013)

Maples (17th October, 2013)

Maples (18th October, 2013)

Maples Part two (24th October, 2013)

Maples Part three (1st November, 2013)

It's Rained (8th November, 2013)

Busy week (15th November, 2013)

Hydrangeas (29th November, 2013)

Its rained some more (6th December, 2013)

Who's pinching my Peaches (13th December, 2013)

Merry Xmas (24th December, 2013)

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