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Features - Soil erosion

The climate in your grounds varies in the different positions and situations, it is therefore important that before you purchase you plants to carefully consider all the aspects, for example, prevailing winds, suns hot spots, suns shade, light intensity, not only in summer but winter too, cold/cool areas, damp/frost pockets, the rain fall should be observed for the wettest part of your grounds and remember this area for the water/moisture requirements in the summer for the moisture loving plants.

A brief note on the soil and the content, to which both are essential for a happy and stress free loyal plant, many a person has purchased an eye catching flowering plant from the garden centre or other outlets, carefully transporting the prize home and excitedly dug a hole just big enough to accommodate the cherished specimen, but them to the purchasers dismay four to six weeks later the prize plant has incurred stress and died.

 


Plants are grown in moisture retention compost (when applicable to the plant needs) with a balanced nutrition content, the soil in your grounds should have a PH value or between 6.7 to 6.9 to be accepted and accommodate most plant life.




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Simple soil test kits of various types are readily available from most garden stores and outlets.

This PH condition can be attained with the introduction of organic compost, manures, vegetable waste, etc. all of the above will add valuable nutrition into the soil and assist in the retention of moisture; peat can be used as a last resort being very good in moisture retention but lacks the vital nutrition content.

We all have a test kit to check our swimming pools, why not have a test kit for your garden soil!

Back to the plant segregation, plants can be quite happily divided into three totally different sections provided they are planted in the correct soil content plus a suitable position for the plant itself and maintained correctly for up to two years or until the plant is well established.

The grounds can also be serparated into the following three different watering conditions:-

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1. Minimal to no water (no irrigation)
2. Average water application
3. Copious water application

Thus giving garden areas of varying water application to the benefit of your plants, plus saving you the cost of water when and where it is not required, planting the same plant in groups of three or different plants closer together helps reduce moisture loss and an annual top mulch helps greatly in moisture retention.
     

The following list consists of ten good specimens for the three different situation and watering conditions.

  1. Pine, Oak, Olive, Bougainvilleas, Yucca, Agaves, Ficus, Aptenia, Oleander, Latanna
  2. Hebe, Fatsia, Abutilons, Hibiscus, Pelagonium, Jasminum, Strelitzia, Arum/Calla Lilly, Buddleia, Pittosprum
  3. Hydrangea, Canna Lilly, Camellia, Brugmansia, Clematis, Monsteria, Bamboo, Daphne, Begonia, Gardenia

The water volume content of a single plant can be 85% of the total plant weight.

  
     
 
   
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