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    Garden NOTES

    Mar 16, 2020 3 minutes
    TEXT MARIANNE ALEXANDER AND DIANE PEACOCK

    In the ROSE GARDEN

    Keep treating your roses for downy mildew during cool, damp periods with preventative products. Deadhead regularly to promote flowering and keep bushes neat. Only deadhead repeat-flowering shrub roses that don’t produce hips. In cool regions, apply a low-nitrogen/ high-potash fertiliser (3:1:5), or water in potassium sulphate to harden them off for winter.

    SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES

    Beautifully photographed, this new edition of Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa by Steve Woodhall (Penguin Random House),

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