Fresh Cut Christmas Trees are coming! - Nov 26, 2021
It's one of the rarest trees in the world.
Dear gardening friends
Well you won't have to water your garden this week. I can't remember the last time it rained like this?
Most plants love the rain, but others get fungal diseases, and some plants just drop dead. If your plants are getting spotty, spray them with a Fungicide. Come see us for the best products.
Our Fresh Cut Christmas Trees are coming.
If you've had one before then you will know that they make your house smell like Christmas. The pine fresh fragrance wafts through your house and brings back so many memories.
We have trees coming from our Christmas tree forest in the Southern Highlands on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of December. We should have trees the following weekend too.
Our Fresh Cut Christmas Trees are hand pruned until they are the perfect Christmas Tree shape. Our Trees are up to 1.8ms high.
They are fresh cut, they will look fabulous right up to Christmas.
Trees go on sale at 8.30am.
The biggest trees always sell out first.
Use one of our Christmas Tree stands to support your tree. It has a water storing base that keeps your tree looking fresh.
Make sure it doesn't run dry.
Bring an old sheet or blanket so we can roll up your tree to keep your car clean.
Christmas trees don't like being tied onto the roof. It drys them out and makes the needles drop off.
We will give you a Christmas tree care brochure to help you have success.
Potted Christmas Trees have arrived.
These varieties grow slower, so they are more suited to grow in pots.
They can be grown in your garden too.
The Blue Spuces start at $66.99.
The green Norway spruces are $$59.99.
Customers complain about the size.
They want a potted pine like this 2 metres high. It will take 10 years to grow that high, and the price would be sky high.
The secret to keeping these alive is not to keep them inside for too long.
A couple of weeks max.
After Christmas move them into the shade for a couple of weeks then gradually back out into the sun. If you put them straight out in the full sun, they will get sunburnt, and all the needles will turn brown.
They will need repotting after Christmas.
Choose a pot 300% bigger than these pots. Use our Best Potting Mix.
Water twice a week during the cooler months, but everyday in summer.
We have a beautiful selection of African Violets just in time for Christmas.
These fabulous flowering indoor plants make great inexpensive Christmas Gifts.
They only cost $16.99.
Choose a self watering Ceramic Pot, from our Australian Made selection, and we will repot it for you for free, using our Best Potting Mix.
We have a fabulous selection of Ceramic pots and Indoor plants at the moment, because plants are back in fashion, for Christmas Gifts.
What do you do when you've grown one of the rarest trees in the world?
Donate it to a local School, that's got a big fence around it.
The Ormeau Bottle Tree or Brachychiton Ormeau is endangered. There's only 161 trees growing in a 1km2 area in Ormeau QLD.
It's endangered, because introduced exotic rats, climb the tree and eat the flowers, and caterpillars eat the fruit.
Luckily nurseries are growing the trees to keep the species alive. This ones a grafted plant, so it could flower and fruit very soon.
When mature it will have a huge bottle shaped trunk, and grow up to 20 metres high by 20ms wide. It will give scale to the beautiful new science block, in the background.
Karyn Ingram, the Community Relations Manager, from Macarthur Anglican School, was truely excited when I contacted her about the tree. And 50 kids came out to hear the trees story.
The Ormeau Bottle tree is also endangered because the area has been mined, and when a forest gets disturbed, introduced weeds start to grow, and take over. This makes it even harder for seedlings to survive.
The flowers are green. The seed pods are black. The foliage changes shape as the tree matures.
I couldn't have been happier about the spot chosen for tree planting.
The kids will be able to watch it grow through the windows. They will be amazed how much nature it attracts. Luckily there won't be Exotic Rats!!!
I gave them my "Love of trees" talk.
Only one boy yawned.
I gave him eye contact, just to let him know I was watching.
They all got their photo taken with the tree. "Come back in 20 years" I told them. "This tree is going to look spectacular".
We have nice big umbrellas here, if you want to shop during the rain.
You can also keep out of the rain, and explore our indoor plants and pots.
It's a great time to plant trees and shrubs
It's going to be a wet summer.
Make the most of these great growing conditions.
Happy gardening
Tim