| Description | Luma apiculata
Myrtus Luma is the medium to tall hedge with real traditional style. A lot of people believe the only fast growing larger hedge with fine foliage is the Pittosporum. It is an extraordinarily versatile plant suitable for hedging, screening, topiary, or as a specimen tree, but its small, aromatic leaves respond so well to pruning that it is commonly used as a hedge.
Myrtus luma also makes a wonderful specimen tree if left unpruned. With age it forms an outstanding trunk with cinnamon brown branches. Its bark peels to reveal streaks of pink and beige. What a plant! It really should be seen more in Australian gardens.
| Artemisia dracunculus
Tarragon is a hardy herb commonly grown for its aromatic leaves and peppery-like taste, which is used for flavouring many dishes and is especially popular for flavouring vinegar. This herb loves a full sunlight to partial shade position. This goes great with meats, poultry, and seafood.
4"/10cm pot size. | Escallonia Iveyi
Escallonia Iveyi is a quick growing, evergreen plant with fragrant white flowers in summer. Ideal for hedges, borders or screening.
It is particulary hardy and will cope with coastal conditions as well as a hot, dry location, but does not cope with humidity. Frost hardy and drought tolerant once established. Plant 70cm apart for hedges and borders.
6" pot size, approximately 15-25cm in height. | Gazania hybrid ‘GT20’
Double Gold™ Gazania is a fast spreading ground cover with clean foliage and stunning yellow flowers that appear for majority of the year. It has twice the amount of flowers than other Gazania’s and is sterile, so it won’t even cross with other Gazania’s nearby. Requires little care once established and excellent at out-competing weeds. Mass planting, rockeries and roadsides.
Full sun. Tolerates frost and drought. Tolerates free draining to heavy clay soils.
Approx 20cm high x 60cm wide. | Hybrid tea 'Elina Rose'
Beautifully formed blooms of a creamy yellow colour and fragrance. Available as a bush rose and 3ft standard.
Approximately 3ft in height.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. |
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| 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. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging.
Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses right up there with your climbers and weeping varieties, amongst all their beautiful colour, variety and hardy nature there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. |
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| botanical name |
Escallonia ?Iveyi?
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| height x width |
2m x 2m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 1m
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| features |
Very rich dark-green wavy edged leaves and long panicles up to 15cm of slightly fragrant pure white flowers in late summer
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Hedging, background planting, general garden plant
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