‘Golden Lyre’ is a hybrid between Grevillea ‘Honey Gem’ and the species Grevillea formosa. This beautiful grevillea has arching branches and green/yellow brush flowers in summer and autumn. ‘Golden Lyre’ flowers over a long period...
This wonderful plant is often taken for granted. As well as producing brightly coloured, cheerful flowers, it is the ideal plant for a child’s first garden. The seeds are large and easily handled by little fingers, and the plants are easy to grow. Toddlers who...
Convolvulus mauritanicus is one of those plants that always does a good job. It is hardy, attractive, humble and very giving. Plant details Common name: convolvulus (not often called by its common name, ‘bindweed’) Botanic name: Convolvulus mauritanicus...
Warm up your garden with a winter-long riot of cheerful pansies. Eye-level pansies! Don put together a colourful hanging basket using ‘Cutie Cat Merlot’ from the new Cutie Cats series of pansies. Follow these steps to create your own pansy basket Cover the...
Dietes – Plant of the Week One of the great things about our Plant of the Week is that it is virtually unkillable. A great choice for lazy gardeners! Plant Details Common name: Dietes Botanic name: Dietes iridioides Description: A clump-forming, rhizomatous...
This week’s Plant of the Week is one of Don’s all time favourites, the sasanqua camellia. Plant details Common name: Sasanqua camellia Botanic name: Camellia sasanqua Description: Small evergreen tree or large shrub from Japan, which grows to around 6...
Plant details Common name: bloodleaf Botanic name: Iresine herbstii Description: a soft-wooded, subshrub from Brazil, growing to around 1m (3′) tall with an open, loose habit. This frost-tender plant is grown for its beautiful foliage. The waxy leaves range in...
Native to tropical America, bromeliads are members of the Bromeliaceae, or pineapple family. These plants come in a wonderful variety of sizes, shapes and foliage colours. Many of them are epiphytes, in other words they live up in the forks of tree branches and exist...
Don looked at some of the trees and shrubs that flower through the warmer months. If you go to your nursery now and buy some of these plants, you’ll have flowers and colour in your garden every summer. Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea cv.) Spectacular...
Don looked at some of the exciting new plant releases available in nurseries this spring. New azaleas