NEW ZEALAND GARDEN SWAP
NEWSLETTER JUNE 2002

Winter is here again! Now is the time to sit in front of the fire with your garden books and catalogues in your hand dreaming and planning next season's garden. With so many Magazines and Nursery Catalogues available now, your choices are vast. Making the decision is not going to be easy. There are a couple of ideas for you in this Newsletter. I have decided that I am not having Roses anymore - taking thorns out of my fingers is not a favourite pastime, and they do flower for only a small part of the year. Instead I have planted Sasanqua Camellia Mini-No-Yuki, which will give me some colour when not much else is flowering and the foliage is a nice dark shiny green all year round. This will be at the back of the borders running round my decking and against a fenceline. It will give me am attractive entranceway and some uniformity around the immediate house area. I have yet to decide what I will be planting in front of them, but I have all winter to think about that.
One of the latest Catalogues I have is from Riverview Daylilies. The array of varieties available is mind boggling, I have never seen any like these available in the Garden Centres, but you need to know that the prices range from $4.00 to $15.00 each! They do, however, multiply readily.
Click here to view some of them.