Time to plant bulbs

Christmas lillies

This is the perfect time of year (Sept) to plant those beautiful bulbs amongst your garden plants.They grow well in most soils and will stay each year producing more and more blooms for you to cut and take inside

You can dig them up when the blooms have died down and foliage is brown ,split the bulbs and have more to plant next spring Great

A much cheaper option than buying the flowers at the supermarket over the summer period A wow factor in any urban garden

A New Veggie Garden

Planter Boxes

This week the My Garden Guy team and I have been busy making our clients gardens look great. One of our projects was a backyard tidy up that also included creating a new veggie garden and planting trees utilising planter boxes. Take a look at the photos from before and after.

Tidying Up Pathway Or Garden Bed

Garden Beds

Turning a dirty, messy pathway into something neat, tidy and attractive. These stones work well. They are heavy so you can use a blower to blow away leaves and the stones stay put.

The Making Of A Lovely Rose Garden

Rose Garden

The making of a lovely rose garden. It involved digging out 1.5 cubic metres of clay and adding some lovely rich soil and planting the new roses.

Lovely Lawn & Gardens

10 Victoria Avenue

Next time you pass by 10 Victoria Avenue take a look at how we maintain their property.

Next time you pass by 10 Victoria Avenue take a look at how we maintain their property.

Build A Lovely New Garden

Great Tidy Up

The team at My Garden Guy took an empty space and turned the area into a visually pleasing garden. We purchased the soil, picked all the plants and bark. We looked after all aspects from design to implementation and finished with a great tidy-up.

Garden Work

Lawn Tips

Lawn tip:

Set the mower blade high – If you mow too low, the grass gets a ‘scalping’ and the weeds arrive!

A few tips for your garden work in the long summer days:

Caterpillars are out there munching: Is the foliage on your young kowhai disappearing? Are the cabbage tree leaves getting more holes in them every day? Lightly dust them with Nature’s Way Derris Dust, or spray them with Yates’ Success Naturalyte. (That’s if you can’t remove them digitally – they’re hard to see on kowhais and they tend to hide down in the base of the cabbage tree leaves).

Thrips are the unseen enemy: If you hose the undersides of the leaves of viburnums and rhododendrons you damage thrips that are clustering now – you’ll notice their unsightly work come autumn, when the leaves turn silver! If plants are badly affected, spray with Confidor, preferably early or late when bees in bed!

Put in a path: Ever noticed that work on NZ roads steps up after Christmas time? Seems like there’s a work crew around every corner. That’s because the most settled weather is generally on its way and the road guys can be sure of getting plenty of work done. It’s obviously a great time to build a pathway in the garden! A great looking, well made path can add several benefits -it offers accessibility to various parts of the garden; delineates garden spaces and assists an area to look crisp and tidy, adding attractive landscape effects

Install Water Feature

Water Features

The Garden Care team use their experience and expertise to install this water feature in a garden and it enhanced the beauty of the garden plus filled an empty corner. The client chose the water feature and we did all the handwork and installed it.
Water features add value to your landscape and provide a peaceful setting for the afternoon relaxation with the sound of water moving in your garden.

Lawn Care

Beautiful Lawns

Lawn Care is critical in autumn. Keep the sprinkler on lawns if the weather is particularly dry and don’t cut as often. New lawns should be sown after soil is prepared.