Potting mixes will be formulated to create a medium best suited to the types of plants that are going to be grown in them.
At Rocky Point, we have a great selection of potting mixes to suit all your gardening needs and various specialty plant requirements.
And no, garden soil and compost are not the same as potting mix.
Potting mixes are created to have a delicate balance of air-filled porosity and water-holding capacity. Depending on the type of mix, they will have additives such as re-wetting agents, water crystals, slow and fast-release fertilisers, pH adjusters, sand, coir, peat, compost, and more. All these ingredients are in the correct balance to help your potted plants thrive.
Some of the more popular potting mixes that Rocky Point formulate and have on offer to the home gardener are.
- Rocky Point Native Premium Potting Mix: This is formulated to ensure that low phosphorus-loving natives such as grevilleas and banksias don’t get phosphorus toxicity.
- Rocky Point Cacti Succulent Potting Mix (also great for Bonsai): This potting mix recipe is extremely free draining ensuring that these types of drought-loving plants don’t rot from an excessive moisture-holding mix.
- Rocky Point Indoor Potting Mix: This potting mix is the only Rocky Point mix to have anti-gnat and anti-fungal properties through natural biological controls. It has the perfect balance of air-filled porosity and water-holding capacity with a blend of coir fibre & chip, peat, and perlite, making it ideal for plants around your home.
- Rocky Point Orchid Potting Mixes (also great for Bromeliads): Most orchids and bromeliads are epiphytic-type plants and require the most perfect free-draining potting mix. This potting mix is formulated using composted course bark to deliver just that.
- Rocky Point Organic Potting Mix: Certified organic potting mix can be hard to come by, at Rocky Point, we have formulated a mix that is perfect for all your edible and ornamental plants, producing healthy and organic crops in containers all year round.
- Rocky Point Premium Potting Mix: Designed for growers who want the complete package, this mix comes with slow and controlled-release fertilisers in the form of a 12-month feed. Just pot and grow! This mix is balanced to a pH of 5-5.5 and is perfect for azaleas that love acidic soil. Other plants that prefer a low pH are blueberries, gardenias, and hydrangeas with blue flowers.
- Rocky Point Coco Pro Professional Potting Mix: Featuring premium quality slow and controlled-release fertilisers, Coco Pro feeds and nourishes plants for over 14 months. Coco Pro’s professional nursery-grade ingredients, together with a unique blend of coconut fibre and chip, act as an organic water saver and root stimulator to help a wide range of plants flourish in a natural, healthy growing environment.
Both Premium and Coco Pro can used to grow a variety of ornamental plants and edibles in containers. From African violets to Zanzibar gems, artichokes to citrus. These potting mixes have you covered.
These are just some of the popular potting mixes that Rocky Point have on offer. Visit our website to learn the full extent of our range.
When it comes to purchasing potting mix, you really do get what you pay for, and cheap is not always best. Look for Rocky Point potting mixes with the Red Australian Standard and Premium ticks on the side of the bag at your local garden centre or hardware store.
