Menu Index: Plant of the Day
Callistemon hybrid ‘Baby Glow’ – Bottlebrush
Callistemon ‘Baby Glow’ is a beautiful new small and naturally compact bottlebrush variety, perfect for smaller gardens and landscaping. The new growth is a bright pink to orange , making it a great feature plant, small hedge or topiary specimen, and it is free branching. ‘Baby Glow’ is primarily grown for the brightly coloured foliage […]
Hibiscus geranioides – Native Hibiscus
A charming and easy care annual to biennial small shrub for warm temperate to tropical areas. It has smallish pink hibiscus flowers all year round in warmer areas, but further south they bloom from spring through summer and autumn. Flowers last a day or two, good moisture will ensure plentiful flowering. Grows to around a […]
Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Gold’ – Kangaroo Paw
Landscape Gold is from the Tall and Tough range of kangaroo paws, and grows well in a good range of soil types and positions. Blooming generously from spring to summer with bright yellow and gold flowers which are attractive to nectar eating birds and insects, they also make great cut flowers. A once a year tidy up after […]
Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Scarlet’ – Kangaroo Paw
Landscape Scarlet is from the Tall and Tough range of kangaroo paws, and grows well in a good range of soil types and positions. It makes a stunning garden and landscape plant with its tall flower stems from spring to summer, and is attractive to nectar eating birds and insects, and they make great cut flowers. A once a […]
Wahlenbergia stricta ‘Fairy Mist’ – Native Bluebell
Wahlenbergia stricta Fairy Mist has delicate pink flowers on a compact, soft-wooded perennial. It flowers throughout the warmer months of the year. An outstanding plant for a cottage garden style as it forms small clumps that lightly sucker from the roots to ensure the plant’s survival if things get dry. It will tend to spread slowly in […]
Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Tangerine’ – Kangaroo Paw
A strappy leafed upright plant, with tall spikes of bright flowers in tones of orange and gold in spring and summer. A great garden and larger landscaping plant which has stood the test of time. The flowers attract birds, and are good for long lasting cut blooms. It grows from an underground rhizome, so once established, if the leaves suffer […]
Actinotus minor- Lesser Flannel Flower
This charming perennial is a miniature version of the larger flannel flower, and has wiry stems with smaller and similar felty flowers. It blooms for most of the year. It has small grey leaves scattered over the plant. It grows naturally on sandstone based soils, and likes good drainage.
Philotheca myoporoides ‘Ruby Cascade’ – Wax Flower
A delightful and easy care medium sized shrub that gets covered with starry white flowers and red buds in late winter to spring, and will bloom over a couple of months. The stems make superb cut flowers with a bonus spicy apple fragrance, and cutting will improve the plant shape creating a more compact habit. It […]
Rhodanthe chlorocephala ssp rosea – Everlasting Daisy
This annual everlasting daisy is superb for creating native wildflower meadow effects, and has flowers which range from pure white to deep pink, with contrasting bright yellow or deep black centres. Each stem is topped with a flower, and pinching out will encourage more stems and thus flowers. Grows and flowers best in sandy open […]
Bracteantha bracteata – Everlasting Daisy
This plant is variable, from annual forms to low growing perennial sub-shrubs. There are many colourful annual types available as seed and as bedding plants, as well as lovely named longer lasting varieties. As well as being beautiful garden plants, the blooms are great for cut flower work, either fresh or as dried flowers which […]