Andrea Whitely Garden Consultant

09/07/2024

🌱Do you need a garden expert to transform your outdoor space?
🌏I am local with worldwide knowledge and a passionate plant professional.
🪴How Can I Help You? Let’s chat about your garden dream together.

08/07/2024

❤️It’s NAIDOC week and what a great time to consider gardening by the 6 season Noongar calendar rather than the European 4 seasons.
💛The season representing June and July, called Makuru, is the coldest and wettest time of the year. It is also known as the fertility season - the best time to plant anything and all the seeds germinate super fast as the rain often falls in the evening with bursts of warm sunshine during the day.
🖤I have been gardening according to the 6 Noongar seasons for years now. It teaches you to pay closer attention to the land where we live and respect and work with our weather patterns.
🌱Why not give it a try in your garden and let me know how you go.

06/07/2024

👀July Handy Hints👀

🥀DO NOT PRUNE YOUR ROSES! IT IS TOO EARLY - wait until August for best results

💧Remember to be waterwise! has extra information
Keep your reticulation switched off
Check your containers as they may dry out and hand water them

👩‍🌾Need some extra help? Book me in for a one-on-one how to?

02/07/2024

🌸Wednesday Wonder🌸

Hakea Laurina (or Pin Cushion Hakea) Do you have one near you?

- Flowering all over Perth now
- Great small tree: will only grow to 2.5m tall
- Tough through the Summer
- Amazing Bird Habitat

29/06/2024

👀A Winter Weekend with perfect weather - what to do?

💡There’s one month left to visit at our very special
~ Wrap up warm, Gather the family or your Besties and enjoy the wonders and joy of this spectacle.

✨Want more of a daytime outing?
~ Check out the Acacia collection in full bloom.
~ Discover some new areas to Kings Park with a walk or even a picnic.
~ Glamp it up with our friends to feel special.

👀Tip:
Tickets are essential for Lightscape as are bookings with Picnic Cheer (and subject to availability)

28/06/2024

Nan Sterman, Waterwise Gardener

Kings Park and Botanic Garden has been crowned the best attraction in Australia! 🙌

Pipping landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Australia’s other botanic gardens, Kings Park and Botanic Garden has taken out the top spot in the Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards 2024, as the highest-rated attraction in the country.

Our bushland, parkland and the iconic Western Australian Botanic Garden have always been a favourite destination for travellers, and now the proof is on paper, with our urban oasis achieving a perfect 5-star rating based on almost 12,500 traveller reviews 💚

📷 Jason Thomas

27/06/2024

🌸Friday Florals Focus -Correa

🔔Dainty little bell-shaped flowers
✨Great in a pot or in the ground
💪🏻Hardy and compact
✨Easy to care for
☀️Just like a fuchsia but these will survive our Perth summers

Tips:
✂️Prune after flowering to shape the plant
👀Correa ‘Dusky Bells’ will grow to 2m wide and 60cm tall

21/06/2024

✂️Trim, Trim, Trim!

✂️Time to trim your native shrubs like these Westringia and Lilly Pilly hedges.
Get them back into shape ahead of Spring growth.

✂️Trim your Hibiscus and Crepe Myrtles to ensure great Spring growth and Summer flowers.

📞Need some more advise. Contact me via email or pick up the phone!

20/06/2024

🌸Sasanqua Camellias are our Friday Floral Focus

👀You’ll see them flowering all over Perth at the moment.
My favourite hedge is an Early Pearly (pic 1) with its stunning white lustre.

🌸Fun facts:
- They are tougher than you think
- Add beautiful winter colour
- Importantly they’re Waterwise
- And Sun Tolerant (sort of!)
- Great in pots or in the ground

👀Tips;
- Improve the soil with mature compost for best results before planting.

20/06/2024

17/06/2024

💚Happy gardening everyone!

💚When you need support and advice I’m your Garden Cheerleader.

💚Call me to discuss your garden dreams.

15/06/2024

It’s a very special weekend at University Of Western Australia Hockey 🏑 Club. We are celebrating 100 years. I could not let the day pass without some containers of WA natives at the main entrance. As always

15/06/2024

14/06/2024

👀Look Out!! Do you have Citrus Gall Wasp?
🌱Forget the vegetable peeler idea - it does not work!
✂️Now is the time to cut off affected branches and place them in a bag and place in the bin.
🍋Lemon trees are likely to have it but check other citrus as well!!
👀Not sure what to do? Call me for some advice.

13/06/2024

What a brilliant idea

12/06/2024

🪴Wednesday Wonder!

💚Focus on Banksias in Bloom Did you Know They are….
🐝Bee Magnets
💚Native West Australian
🐦Nectar for the Birds
💚Easy care - prune to shape after flowering
✨Have Golden blooms on the darkest of winter days

08/06/2024

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Coming your way this weekend features a variety of special guests in the studio. Rae Burton will be joined by Andrea Whitely Garden Consultant and Laura Blishen from Thrive Sustainability.
Winter warmers, edible quick fillers and potted plants to grow now plus home remedies for winter. You can call 94841927 with your gardening questions or email [email protected].
Tune in for the chance to win a $75 voucher from Bigga Trees and Green Life Soil Co. If you miss the show you can catch up later on the podcast.

07/06/2024

🌱Need some personal advice for your garden or some questions answered about certain plants, lawn or trees?
🪴I offer a one-on-one in-person consultation specifically for you in your garden.
🌳You’ll also receive a full ‘how-to’ guide for everything we’ve discussed.
📞Call me now for guidance for your garden needs

05/06/2024

🌏Our Land. Our Future. 🌏We are

🌱This year’s focus for is Land restoration, desertification and drought resilience.

🌱Want to grow a drought resistant garden? Call me for help.

01/06/2024

How absolutely beautiful!

Grevillea miniata is an open, spreading to erect shrub or tree, growing to 1.8-5 m high and producing abundant pendulous clusters of brilliant gold flowers from April or June to August. The flower clusters are arranged in leaf axils and are bright yellow and deep green at first, later turning orange or deep yellow and bright red as the flowers open. The species epithet is derived from the Latin miniatus (flame red), a reference to the colour of the inner surface of the flower. The leathery leaves are pungently toothed, usually with 9-25 evenly spaced teeth.

The species occurs in WA, where it’s restricted to an area in the Kimberley region from the southern end of the Wunaamin Miliwundi Range to the Bungle Bungle Range and extending to the NT.

Grevillea miniata grows in tall, open, mixed shrubland or woodland on low rises or rocky situations in yellow or red sandy soil over quartzite or sandstone.

Image: K.R. Thiele

31/05/2024

🌱It’s a Long Weekend - It’s Winter officially!
🌱3 days of Garden Bliss!
🌱Dance in the Rain
🌱Rake Up Your Leaves
🌱Pick up any dropped fruit to prevent fungal disease and fruit fly infestation on the next crop
🌱Turn off your reticulation - check the Water Corp link in bio for information

29/05/2024

Wednesday Wonder - focus on Violas!
💜Budget friendly Sweet winter colour 💜Great for pots 💜Sunny or Shaded areas 💜 Heart shaped leaves and pretty faced flowers 💜 Well drained soil -use Premium Potting Mix 💜Fertilise each month for best results

28/05/2024

Great article for everyone who loves a day in the garden 🪴

Digging holes can be a workout and mood booster all rolled into one.

26/05/2024

This morning Friends of Galup-Lake Monger and many members of our local community came out to plant 2780 sedges and other native species. Thank you all!!! And don’t forget we need your help again on 9 June. Please sign up to help.

23/05/2024

🌸Floral Fridays! 🌸

📝Tips for Stunning Cyclamen from Autumn through to Spring
🪴Choose a plant that has lots of buds and fewer flowers in full bloom
🪴Plant in a pot and position it so that you can see it from inside while snuggled up with a good book
🪴Water to keep the soil moist but not sodden
🪴Feed the plant once a year in early winter with a slow release fertiliser for flowering plants
🪴When the leaves yellow, remove them and decrease the watering

🌸Cyclamen are a perennial plant, the gift that keeps on giving, and with a little lovin’ they will last for years and years
🌸They are very addictive and very collectable, you won’t be able to stop at one!
🌸You will value them for their foliage as much as the flowers, they come in all kinds of varieties and even teeny tiny dwarf varieties.

22/05/2024

There is so much to learn from RHS Chelsea Flower Show...even if some of us can't be there in person..enjoy!

21/05/2024