| Description | Correa alba
A popular choice amongst council and parks landscapers due to its set-and-forget nature, the Correa is a attractive, hardy and versatile perennial shrub.
• White star-shaped flowers with rounded, velvety leaves
• Will grow in both full sun or part shade, tolerating harsh Australian soil and weather
• Responds well to pruning, making neat hedges or even native topiary | Betula pendula 'Dalecarlica'
The Cut-Leaf Birch is a very graceful tree with distinctive feathery foliage and fine white bark. It is slender and graceful enough to be a part of a small garden without appearing too dominant, and is also effective in larger areas planted alone or in groups. A moderate growing and medium sized tree, ideal for either a small garden setup or even a larger forest-like vista, this tree will grow well in most soils in a sunny to part shade position. A beautiful specimen tree not to be looked over!
10"/25cm pot size | The Sugar herb, is a herbaceous perennial shrub, native to South America. It is a sub tropical plant and prefers a semi humid environment. In the wild it can grow up to 60cm tall. The leaves have a sweet taste to them, and are sweetest when the plant begins to flower. For thousands of years South Americans have used this herb to sweeten teas, beverages and food. The leaves can be used fresh or dried, and more potent when dried. | Hybrid tea 'Papa Meilland'
Velvety crimson blooms with a high centre, highly fragrant. Vigorous and upright. Available as a bush rose and 3ft standard.
8" pot size.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Banksia spinulosa
Honey Pots is a very attractive small shrub that is perfect for rockeries and smaller gardens. Can be mass planted or in small groups. Also great for containers on the patio, veranda or deck. It has a dense and compact growth habit to around a metre wide and tall. It can be pruned to smaller sizes, which also improves the density of the plant. Lovely golden flower colour. It is frost tolerant, and prefers well drained soils. |
| 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. 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. | |
| Additional information | |
| botanical name |
Betula pendula ?Dalecarlica?
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| height x width |
7m x 3m
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| features |
Slender tall tree with elegant hanging branches and fine light green deeply cut leaves which turn golden in autumn
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well drained soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen, group planting, avenues, great for small gardens
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| botanical name |
Stevia rebaudiana, or Sugar herb
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