11 September, 2007 Scotts Australia home
Hello,

Spring is here with its textures, smells and colour - soft new leaves, flowers of rainbow colours, scented air, the soothing sound of bees and birdsong. We hope these tips and ideas will help you enjoy your garden in spring and all year through.

Best wishes,
Scotts® Customer Team
spring bulbs
Bulbs need care even AFTER flowering

Did you know that bulbs store food for next season's flowering AFTER the flowers have finished?

So find out what to do for your bulbs after they've flowered?
lawn
Lawns help cool our environment.

They consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen - just like all plants.

Be confident that you can work with the environment and still have a healthy, flourishing lawn.

Read our FIVE quick tips for increasing the environment "friendliness" of your lawn.
Did you know?   Spring Tips   Weed Alert
bees
Bee's buzz beats electric wand


In a greenhouse experiment, flowers given a single buzz by an Australian bee produced tomatoes that were more than 10% heavier than those that were vibrated with an electric wand.

... And the bee-pollinated tomatoes also had significantly more seeds than the wand pollinated tomatoes.

Refer Blue Banded Bee Pollination Trials at Adelaide Uni, September 2006.

Invite bees into your garden with flowering plants such as borage, thyme, lavender, bergamot and buddleia.

Protect bees when you spray your flowers. For example, use Defender™ MaxGuard®, which is 100 times less toxic to bees than its closest competitor.
 
spring


Lock in moisture by applying mulch now.
Replace nitrogen used up as the mulch decomposes by spreading a controlled release fertiliser under the mulch.

[Why a controlled release fertiliser? find out how they work.]
Apply fertiliser now to the whole garden as plants are in active growth and require plenty of food.

Find a fertiliser to suit your need.
Check our tips on Planting & Fertilising
  It’s not only your garden plants that have spring fever - look at those weeds grow!

Eliminate weeds before they have a chance to seed.

weeds

Some tips from Scotts

Roundup® is a fast-acting herbicide that you can use safely around your garden and around pets.

Treat bindii in the lawn before they have a chance to develop their painful seed-bearing prickles. Lawn Builder™ with Weedkill can do the job.

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