| Description | Grevillea rhyolitica
This is a compact everblooming shrub with delightful gold spider flowers. The glossy green leaves are held on arching branches and are set off with flowers for most of the year with a crescendo in late winter to spring. This is a great specimen or container plant to add year round interest to your garden. An extremely hardy plant, frost, heat and drought tolerant. Attractive to wildlife like nectar eating birds and insects. A must have plant for native gardens.
8"/20cm pot | Acer platanoides
The Norweigan Maple or Norway Maples are a classic maple tree that produces shoots that are green at first, soon becoming pale brown. In Winter they bear buds that are glossy red-brown. Norway Maples also produces beautiful small, greenish flowers that appear in early spring.
This tree can grow in a wide range of conditions making it quite popular in gardens and as a street tree. Will reach between 12 and 20 metres in 10 years. | Julia's Rose
Parchment brown rose that fades to copper shades, medium upright growth.
8" pot size, approximately 2ft in height.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Boston Ivy is an incredibly vigorous deciduous climber that evenly covers any surface it is grown over, making it a very popular option for hiding unsightly spots.
- Large glossy, green three-pronged leaves
- Foliage turns bright crimson in the autumn, standing out dramatically in the landscape
- Tolerates average soils, growing best in well drained loamy soil
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| Content | | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | Why buy Boston Ivy?
Boston Ivy is one of our most popular climbers, and rightfully so. It suits Melbourne's weather perfectly. It is a self-adhering climber which grows by clinging to the wall or surface, but without damaging stonework or invading cracks. It can be used to cover unsightly fences, or add a lush layer of green over masonry.
Boston Ivy is deciduous and provides a phenomenal autumn display of oranges and red hues. It not only makes a fantastic addition to any garden, but is also a very cost effective way to add colour and beauty to bland areas.
What else do I need to know about buying Boston Ivy plants?
Boston Ivy is a very hardy and versatile climber and it can grow almost anywhere and under any conditions. However it loves a hot sunny spot with loose fertile soil and plenty of water, and in these ideal conditions it will grow to cover anything in no time.
Boston Ivy can also grow in shade, in pots, in poor soils and confined garden beds. However, if conditions are less than perfect, expect it to grow more slowly. The trick is to plant it more densely to achieve ideal coverage if this is the case.
Plant one plant every metre in ideal conditions, or more plants closer together if conditions are less than ideal.
Check out our Boston Ivy fact sheet page for more information. |
