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Hello and welcome, I'm Amanda Williams from Green Platypus Gardens.
As a Landscape Designer, I love designing sustainable and holistic gardens based on permaculture principles. Our team at Green Platypus Gardens develop productive gardens, butterfly and biodiversity gardens and beautiful spaces of sanctuary.
As a Garden Educator, I enjoy teaching gardening & sustainability to both children and adults. I love developing community & school gardens and inspiring people to build their own gorgeous gardens.
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Landscape design & horticulture experts
With over 35 years experience in the horticulture industry as a landscape designer, educator and nursery owner, you can trust Green Platypus Gardens to help you!
Commitment to permaculture principles
Green Platypus Gardens is committed to creating holistic gardens based on permaculture principles, developing productive gardens, butterfly and biodiversity gardens and beautiful spaces of sanctuary.
Emphasis on garden education
Green Platypus Gardens delights in teaching gardening and sustainability to both children and adults. We will empower you to take care and manage your own garden once we're done.
May in my Garden
What’s looking good
Here in the Adelaide Hills the season is changing, with many beautiful days and very cool nights. Not much decent rain yet, but as I write this, there's a fine drizzle that keeps the garden growing.
Beauties in the garden include the Dahlias, Cosmos, Salvias, Roses and early Chrysanthemums. And I'm being delighted by the gorgeous Autumn color of the Chinese Pistachio (Pistacia chinensis), Liquidambar styraciflua, Malus varieties (Crabapple) and 'Red Emperor' Chinese elm, which is magnificent in it's fourth year.
What to do
- It's again time to prune, tidy up, fertilize and mulch when we get enough rain. I like to wait until there has been a good fall of up to 40mm, so the soil is damp before mulching.
- If you have a worm farm, (which I hope you do!) remember to keep them damp and feed your worms with a good mix of carbon and nitrogen. Add manures, weeds, kitchen scraps and cardboard/paper, and they will thank you by breeding and turning the waste into wonderful castings.
- Autumn is a great time to plan your garden by improving soil, looking for empty spaces and deciding where to plant your veggies.
- Semi hardwood cuttings and autumn seeds can be started now, taken over the winter then planted in the spring.
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- A delightful dry stone walled pathway
- Clearing and re-planting of an extremely steep bank behind the house
- Laying of pathways and planting an avenue of shrubs for screening
- Selection, placement and planting of an array of wonderful trees, shrubs and other plants
- Installation of an irrigation system