Mar 21, 2024 | Plant Database, Uncategorized
Grevillea lanigera ‘Mello Yellow’ is a really spectacular form of the woolly grevillea which is a great plant for cooler climates such as the southern states of Australia. Once established it is a very low maintenance plant with wonderful displays of...
Mar 21, 2024 | Plant Database
Grevillea ‘Amazing Grace’ is a wonderful low maintenance ground cover . Its great appeal is the bronze-coloured new growth and the interesting texture the leaf shape creates in the landscape. Use a low phosphorus fertiliser but once established it is set...
Aug 11, 2023 | Plant Database
A great ground cover Eremophila that flowers all winter with tubular red-brown blooms. The foliage is naturally dense with small, grey green leaves, and pruning after flowering will enhance this even more. It likes a sunny spot, well drained soil and low humidity....
Jun 27, 2023 | Plant Database
An attractive compact mounding plant that does not sucker. It has daisy flowers with a lovely contrasting golden centre can be produced all year round, with large flushes in spring and again in summer. Brachyscome multifida has various colour forms, the most common...
Jun 27, 2023 | Plant Database
A lovely Australian native perennial daisy that forms a spreading evergreen mound of soft green foliage and has violet-blue flowers through the warmer months, peaking in spring and autumn. Great for mass planting, rockeries and containers. A very easy care plant, a...
May 27, 2023 | Plant Database
A small sub-shrub perennial/biennial with narrow green foliage and a profusion of golden everlasting flowers through the warm months. A great general garden or pot plant and wonderful cut flower. Flowers best in full sun but will tolerate light shade. This is a...
May 24, 2023 | Newsletters
Having recently created the Gardening With Angus seed range with the aim of bringing some of our uniquely beautiful Australian plants to the home gardener, I would like to make this newsletter about growing plants from seed. The thing about raising many plant species...
May 17, 2023 | Plant Database
An attractive large shrub, with unusual weeping leaves on long arched branches. While it is attractive when not in flower, it becomes even more eye catching in mid spring to early summer when the branches are covered with profuse small white flowers, making it look...
May 3, 2023 | Plant Database
A useful ground cover with dense foliage and masses of white or pink star shaped flowers during summer, with spot flowering in spring and autumn. Fast growing and very easy care, and forms a dense weed deterring mat. Likes a sunny spot, frost and drought tolerant....
May 1, 2023 | Plant Database
A low growing and dense shrub with narrow grey-green, club-shaped leaves. It flowers in spring to late summer with pink to purple flowers. It is drought hardy and can tolerate moderate frost. It is best in a well-drained soil in a warm sunny and low-humidity...