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Trees for small gardens <\/p>\n
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– September bells is an attractive spring flowering tree with sweetly scented creamy-white, bell-shaped clusters of flowers that are produced each September. September bells will grow into a rounded shrub or can be encouraged to growas small as a tree.<\/p>\n
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– Tree Wisteria it grows to a height and spread of 7x4m. It has a slender erect shape with an attractive bark and bears masses of lilac-blue flowers.<\/p>\n
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– Karee – evergreen tree wiith an interesting trunk and branch growth patterns it has a height and spread of 7x5m it bears light green leaves and sprays of tiny greenish-yelloow flowers.<\/p>\n
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– Lavender tree- grows upto 6m high and 5 m wide .<\/p>\n
it has an attractive bark that starts off smooth and white and becomes grey and flaky with age revealing patches of orange-brown bark beneath. New spring growth is tinged red, becoming glossy green in summber before turning autumn shades.<\/p>\n
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– White gardenia – everygreen tree grows to 2.5m high and 1.5 m wide. it bears highly freagrant white flowers in midsummer. the foliage is shiny and crinkled.<\/p>\n
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– Forest Bushwillow- 7×4 m in hieght it bears beautiful autmn folaige and its dense canopy makes it a great shade tree. <\/p>\n
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– Wide pear – a waterwise tree up to 6 m high bears clusters of white flowers in spring.<\/p>\n
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tips <\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n <\/p>\n September is a glorious month in the garden.<\/p>\n plant up a bed of spring flowers <\/p>\n plain or frilly leafed lettuces in shades of green and red are useful as temporary fillers in the front of a border. Cabbages can also be used in a flower border.<\/p>\n Apply a general fertilser and a layer of compost to all beds. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Courtesy of Kay Montgomery <\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trees for small gardens – September bells is an attractive spring flowering tree with sweetly scented creamy-white, bell-shaped clusters of flowers that are produced each September. September bells will grow into a rounded shrub or can be encouraged to growas small as a tree. – Tree Wisteria it grows to a height […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[843,897,947],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening-tips","tag-gardening","tag-gardening-tips","tag-time-to-go-indigenous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-aX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 06:25:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}