TIP OF THE DAY... Choosing the correct plants to help your home.

Hey there all gardeners, time for some more hints and tips to help with any garden queries you might have. Gardening should be a very therapeutic activity, and it is.....but we are saddled with extreme heat, erratic rain, water restrictions, the quandary of more hard landscaping and less soft to save water, rising costs etc., which make our decisions harder with regards to what we do.

Take heart, here are some interesting tips to think about which can save money.

1. Plants you can use to keep bugs away :

    Rosemary - fleas, ticks

    Peppermint - spiders, mozzies, ants

    Catnip - mozzies

    Marigold - mozzies, aphids

    Basil - mozzies, houseflies

    Lavender - moths, fleas, flies, mozzies

2. Natural turf/lawn is an incredible material, a healthy lawn can survive on just 25mm of water per week.

It can also absorb 20,000l in a single instance before reaching its limit.

This makes natural turf/lawn a champion in helping to prevent floods over large areas.

Yet as more gardens get covered in concrete, plastic turf or paving it increases our flooding risk. Rather opt for natural and let our lawns be the earth's sponge.

All the best and happy gardening