How to Maximise Your Garden | Designing With Plants | Gardening Australia

Guest Presenter Jac Semmler introduces her third instalment of the Designing with Plants miniseries.

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As a maximalist garden designer, Jac says it’s always about getting as many plants as she can. A cheap and easy way to do this is by propagation – which also allows you to clone really important plants in your garden.

Jac uses the same mix whether she’s growing seed, taking cuttings or dividing existing plants. She uses a good quality propagation mix that is both free draining and can hold moisture. She mixes this with coarse sand for even more drainage. In wetter months she mixes them 1:1, but in drier months she uses half the sand and half good-quality coconut coir mix.

Filmed on Bunurong Country in Frankston, Vic

Missed the other parts?
Part 1: https://youtu.be/rf2arvkUzUA
Part 2: https://youtu.be/cKZMySQAM5s

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Hedgehog Sage (Coleus livingstonei)
Rock Purslane (Cistanthe grandiflora syn. Calandrinia grandiflora)
Pig's Ear (Cotyledon orbiculata cv.)*
Kangaroo Paw (Anigozanthos cv.)
Delphinium (Delphinium ‘Blue Sensation’)
Salvia (Salvia sinaloensis ‘Aztec Blue’)
Elegant Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata syn. C. elegans cv.)

* Check before planting: this may be an environmental weed in your area.

This segment is from Gardening Australia Season 35, Episode 32 titled “Spring: Vegies in pots, leeks & bamboo”.

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