Episode: #6 7/10/2006
Presenter: Sue McDougall

Gardening in a restricted area such as a balcony or courtyard in an apartment or town house can bring with it many challenges. There are usually not many options to move plants around so they get the conditions they require.

Correct plant selection is crucial to the success of small area gardening and a garden centre is the best place to go for ideas and inspiration.

Waldecks Subiaco are well placed to service the courtyard, townhouse market being situated in the heart of Subiaco. Display gardens including furniture, water features, glazed pots and spectacular specimen plants make shopping for the new garden really easy.

The first step is to decide what sort of look you are wanting. If it is traditional and soft, where terracotta pots are the order of the day, then mass plantings of soft flowering perennials under specimen plants such as Magnolias or Camellias can give a soft romantic feel to the balcony.

If you want strong architectural lines and bold foliage then the branching Cordyline, called Red Fountain, is perfect. Unlike the varieties that get very tall this plant stays bushy, growing to just over 1m high and can withstand a sunny position. Planted in contrasting glazed pots it looks stunning with the leaves forming a slight weeping habit.

It can also be mass planted in beds and is perfect for a garden border. Waldecks have Cordylines (Cordyline australis) on special at $19.49ea, which is a saving of $10.45ea. At that price they are going to fly out the door.

Would you like some of these plants and pots to add interest to your garden for no cost? Don?t forget to enter the $20 000 landscaping package that Waldecks have up for grabs. All you have to do is visit www.waldecks.com.au, download the entry form and drop it into your local Waldecks store as many times as you like.

While you are at Waldecks Subiaco, if there is anything at all that you would like to know about gardening, whether it to do with weeds or waterwise gardening then one of the staff can help.

Waldecks also has 30% off a range of selected pots in store in a fantastic range of shapes, sizes and colours to choose from. Just look out for the Garden Gurus special display in each Waldecks store. This brilliant offer is for 1 week only and they perfect for the Cordyline Red Fountain that are so easy to grow.

Waldecks Subiaco

cnr Hay St and Railway Road
Subiaco WA 6008
Ph: +61 89381 8977
Fx: +61 8 9388 3051