Cinderella plants – a flowering head of blue ginger
Are you a Cinderella? Does no-one seem to recognise your superb gifts?
Well then: Perhaps you can sympathise with the following list of Cinderella plants.
These are beautiful hard-working plants that really deserve recognition BUT they are ignored – just like you have been.
For instance, the Blue Ginger (Dichorisandra) has cornflower blue flowers above lush ginger leaves. The plant grows about 1 ½ m high but IT IS BLUE! …So BLUE.
Then there’s the Winter Honeysuckle with its lemon-boronia perfumed flowers that perfume an entire garden in winter.
Or the Billardiera family of climbers – VERY RARE – small native climbers that produce superb flowers and glorious berries that native birds relish.
Or yellow flowering Linum (Reinwardtia) that lives in old ugly gardens but longs to be in HIP Balinese gardens.
GO A HUNTING FOR THEM!
Hooroo! Don
