The first twelve weeks: establishment care
More Perth gardens are lost in their first summer than are ever killed by bad design. Establishment watering is different from ongoing watering, and getting it wrong wastes the entire plant budget.
⏱ 60 minIntermediateNot written yet
Not planted yet — but the plan for it is final
The practical task and the checklist below are exactly what this lesson will teach. What is missing is the written explanation and the curated links, each one fetched and verified before it ships.
In the meantime the checklist is genuinely usable on its own. Take it outside.
Checklist
- Establishment watering schedule set and actually followed
- New-garden exemption used if you planted outside the ideal window
- Plants checked weekly for stress in the first month
- Mulch kept off stems and trunks
- Failures replaced early, in season, not left as gaps