How to add colour to the garden in winter

Now, if you weren't born with two green thumbs like this guy, try to keep your plants alive can be really difficult. And then you throw in winter and that just feels like it gets overwhelming. Yeah. But fear not, because here to help us save our succulencies, gardening expert Matt Lacey. Matt. Matt, this just looks so beautiful. Yeah, thanks. So just tell us, how do we get some colour into our gardens in winter? Well, I just thought I'd give you this example of just how much colour can be in the garden in winter. Cause often you feel like that's kind of the dead time where there's nothing, nothing thriving. And so colour can come from flowers. It can come from foliage. So depending on your, you know, whether you're a green thumb or not, we'll drive how many flowers you want to have because flowers are a bit more maintenance. So sometimes those that won't color in the garden but don't want the maintenance should go for more of a succulent. But if you look at like this Hardenbergia, which is a a native, it's got this beautiful little delicate flower on it. And that's just the climate that you can grow across a fence or or on a on a trellis or something like that. So there's some beautiful natives, this Grevillea, the harden Beria down here. We've also got this Euphorbia diamond frost, that plant, it's got a beautiful, delicate little white flower, gorgeous. It pretty much flowers all year round. And it's super Hardy. Like you can put that anywhere and it's pretty much gonna thrive. So for those plant for me, you should. Yeah, definitely get on to that one. Right. You've got a whole big tree over here. What's going on here? Yeah, the kumquat too. I mean, this is another way to bring it bring colour into the garden. You know, your pop of orange in the garden. I mean, orange has gotta be your thing if you're if you're going for that. But citrus trees can bring colour as well. I mean, I wouldn't, if you were designing garden, I wouldn't go for all these colours in the one spot because they clash a bit. There's yellows and oranges and purples. But I just wanted to show you what can be done. But if you're designing your own garden, choose like two or three colours and then match them together with the foliage and that will get you a more kind of cleaner, nicer. What are these beautiful purple ones here? So this is Salvia, this is a beautiful flowering plant as well. And this is obviously Salvia's not here mate. She's coming back tomorrow named after her. And then you've got your lavender here as well. So you got a bit of scent as well. So, you know, smell that. How good is that? Let me smell that. Yeah. Oh, delicious. I bet people who? I mean, I'm kidding that I've got green thumbs. My wife does, but I don't. I mean, how do you revive your garden in the cooler months? Because sometimes it just could be too overwhelming. Yeah. Yeah. So look at the cooler months as you catch up, Period. So in the summer, all you're doing is trying to keep on top of growth weeds, you know, mowing the lawn. In winter, the plants are lying, most of them pretty dormant at the time. So all you wanna do is clean out your garden, lay down some slow release fertilizer and put down some mulch so when spring hits, everything is ready to thrive and take off. So look at winter as more of that get on top of things kind of time of the year. Well, if we're not so good at looking after them and taking care of them and they die, yes. Is there a way that we can like revive them? CPR back to yeah, yeah. The same as humans, you know, once you're dead, you're dead. And, and, and like any patient, unless you know why it's died, then it's hard to kind of say. But you gotta look at the location, the aspect that whether it's the right type of plant, whether it's been getting enough water or you gotta kind of diagnose why it died before you can really, you know, think about planting something else in its spot. Well, there's a really great suggestions mate. It looks really beautiful in here today. It smells beautiful. Smells good too. We really do appreciate your time. Thanks for coming in. No, thanks very much. This is gorgeous. I mean, you could try this at home if you are a green thumb is now is the time to sort of start getting into it. I mean, take some tips from David. I don't think I'm really naked. I was only kidding that I've got 2 green thumbs.