| Description | Coleonema pulchellum aurea
Golden Diosma is one of the most popular garden shrubs. It has fine, small bright green-gold foliage which darkens in summer. Fragrant flowers and leaves release a beautiful scent when brushed past.
6''/14cm pot | Beta vulgaris
This simple growing silverbeet has attractive rainbow coloured stems, and a distinctive flavour. It's vigorous and suitable for continuous picking. Choose a sunny, well-drained position. Protect from snails and slugs!
4''/10cm pot | Brachychiton acerifolius
The Illawarra Flame Tree is known for its stunning display of bright red flowers that cover the whole bare tree in late Spring. While it's an Aussie native, it is now grown all over the world for its beauty.
The Illawarra Flame Tree is only fully deciduous in the northern parts of Australia, where it drops its leaves in the dry season. Plant Flame Trees with Jacarandas for a colour explosion. | 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. | Betula pendula youngii 'Weeping Silver Birch'
Weeping Silver Birch is a beautiful tree that is medium sized. Grows best in a position of full sun to partial shade. Silver Birch is great for larger gardens and parks etc. It's bark remains white at the base.
This tree is easy to grow and will thrive in most types of soil. This Weeping Silver Birch is deciduous and bears lovely small green leaves.
12" pot size, approximately 6ft tall. | Mandevilla diamantina (Dipladenia)
Mandevilla is perfect for baskets, pots or garden plantings as well as areas where it may climb up a lattice or wall. It is a compact plant with large, trumpet shaped, pure white flowers with yellow centres. It can bloom all summer long, and will eventually grow into a large, shrubby climber. They will withstand high heat and will benefit from organically enriched soils. Grows to approximately 7m h x 50cm wide.
7''/18cm pot | Rosmarinus officinalis 'Rosea'
Pink Rosemary is an evergreen shrub with pink or mauve flowers and strongly aromatic foliage. Good as an informal hedge and in cottage gardens, also suitable for tubs and pots.
Rosemary is used in many meat and vegetable dishes and is excellent in herb breads and scones. |
| Additional information |
| botanical-name |
Coleonema pulchellum "Aurea"
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| height-x-width |
50-60cm x 50-60cm
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| features |
Beautiful fine, aromatic golden foliage that is covered with tiny light-pink flowers during late winter and spring
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| conditions |
Full sun to par shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape-use |
Color contrast, specimen, group plantings, borders, rockeries, responds well to pruning
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| botanical name |
Brachychiton acerifolia
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| height x width |
10-15m x 6-9m
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| features |
Profuse foamy sprays of bright scarlet flowers are borne in late spring-early summer on a leafless crown, beautiful shiny lime green leaves. although not full deciduous the leaves are dropped only before flowering
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil, protect from heavy winds and frost
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| landscape use |
Specimen, shade tree, parks, avenues, street planting
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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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| botanical name |
Betula pendula ?Youngii?
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| height x width |
Height of the standard x 3m at 20 years
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| features |
Silver/white peeling bark, bright green small leaves, graceful long weeping branches
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| conditions |
Plant in full sun to part shade in well drained mulched soil
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| landscape use |
An excellent specimen for any garden, may be trimmed into more of an umbrella shape or left to weep to the ground
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