PRUNE back spring flowering shrubs that have finished flowering to promote a bushy habit.
This also prevents the plant from putting a lot of energy into seed production, directing it instead into vegetative, or shoot and leaf growth.
If you have not done so already, trim diosmas, eriostemons or wax flowers, kunzeas, winter buddleias, choysias, boronias and banksia roses.
Dead-head annual flowers such as petunias weekly as this encourages new flowers quickly.
Feed them fortnightly with a liquid fertilizer and do the same for vegetables and herbs.
