It’s the first time we have propagated these pretty Arthropodium minus – Small Vanilla-lilies – and they have done very well. They are perennial and form tubers which store nutrients for the following growing season. This fragrant vanilla lil...
Category: Plants
Gonocarpus tetragynus – Creeping raspwort
To 30CM. Erect bushy herb covered in flattened, short, white bristly hairs. Loose spikes of tiny pinkish-red flowers Sept – Jan. Small fruit, silvery grey. Full sun, semi-shade.
Eleocharis acuta – Common Spike-sedge
to 90cm. Semi-aquatic herb with erect stems. Slender grass-like leaves. Narrow cylindric spikelet straw-coloured tinged with dark brown Sept-Mar.
Eucalyptus viminalis ssp. pryoriana – Coast Manna Gum
To 15M. Spreading tree with dense crown, rough bark, shedding from upper trunk and branches. Narrow blue green leaves with weeping habit. Egg to spindle-shaped buds in axillary clusters of 3 creamy flowers Jan-Mar. Nectar source for butterflies and other insec...
Eucalyptus radiata s.l. – Narrow-leaf Peppermint
To 40M. Low branching tree with dense canopy, bark rough and fibrous to the small branches. Aromatic, thin-textured narrow leaves. Numerous small club-shaped buds in axillary clusters followed by profuse creamy to pale yellow flowers Oct-Jan. Nectar source for...
Eucalyptus polyanthemos – Red Box
To 15M. Slow-growing, small to medium tree sometimes with crooked trunk, compact to spreading blue green crown, rough bark. Terminal panicles of 7 bluish club-shaped buds, scar present, Sept-Jan. Requires good drainage tolerating poor stony soils, full sun, se...
Eucalyptus paucifolia – Snow Gum
To 30M. Rounded low branching tree, bark smooth, bark on young branches reddish. Weeping glaucous young growth becoming thick shiny grey- to olive-green leaves.Axillary clusters of 11+ club-shaped buds on thick stalks with creamy flowers Dec-Feb. Fruit cup-sha...
Eucalyptus melliodora – Yellow Box
To 30M. Variable open to dense tree, loose fibrous to scaly, yellow-brown bark, smooth pale grey to yellow bark on top and branches. Oval grey-green becoming dull green to greyish lanceolate leaves. Axillary racemes of 7 club-shaped buds followed by profuse pe...
Eucalyptus leucoxylon – Melbourne Yellow Gum
To 20M. Upright tree with spreading crown, bark rough, loose, fibrous at base, smooth yellowish above. Young heart-shaped green or blue-green leaves becoming long olive-green to green. Axillary clusters of ovoid buds in 3s on long thin stalks, followed by prof...
Eucalyptus camaldulensis – Red River Gum
To 40M. Large open spreading tree, smooth mottled bark becoming rough at base. Bluish green when young, becoming long dull green leaves. Axillary racemes of 7-11 long stalked buds followed by profuse cream to pale yellow flowers Nov – Feb with long stame...