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  • Hosta

    Hostaceae

  • Limonium
    • cosyrense   CAG02787
      Height30cmWidth50cmFlowering SeasonSu - AuWaterLLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A Maltese species with neat rosettes of dark green, rounded leaves forming a low shrubby mound and bearing a profusion of tiny, pale lavender flowers on fine, branching scapes that last all summer.

      Terribly adorable in any well drained soil and remarkably shade tolerant though maximum sun and exposure yields higher definition. Salt tolerance and a love for coastal conditions should be taken for granted as with much of the genus. Cold tolerance questionable though it so far seems able to handle any frosts W.A. can throw at it. Self sows when happy.

      Annual removal of spent flowers should be all the effort ever required to keep it looking its best.

      Makes a fine potted specimen, at least for a few years, easily mistaken by visitors as some challenging alpine and bolstering your horticultural street cred.

  • Pelargonium

    (Storksbill)
    Geraniaceae

    Not to be confused with Geranium commonly encountered in temperate gardens. Pelargonium offers a diversity of growth habits, form and foliage for warmer climates and have little tolerance of cold winters.

    Species from winter rainfall southern Africa are mostly drought loving and favour lean sandy soils, prime targets for exploitation in Perth gardens.

    The common "Geraniums" of Australian gardens are typically hybrids involving summer rainfall species, developed for hot house culture elsewhere and are of variable hardiness on the west coast. Many struggle with dry heat and high leaf surface temperatures while some, predominantly older varieties, can be very robust.
    • ionidiflorum   CAG00931
      Height20cmWidth60cmFlowering SeasonSp - AuWaterM - LLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A small growing, evergreen, sprawling perennial with small, deeply incised, grey green leaves covering the stiff, wiry branches. Throughout the warmer months of the year, small, pale pink, butterfly-like flowers are borne profusely in airy clusters on slender stems.
      Unusual for the genus the lower 3 petals are larger than the upper 2.
      Removal of accumulated spent flowerheads and the occasional fatigued branch is all the maintenance necessary.

      A tough little plant for the edge of paths, trailing over walls or in hanging baskets. As with all pelargoniums provide good drainage.

  • Pinellia
  • Salvia

    (Sage)
    Lamiaceae

    A genus whose popularity has risen exponentially in recent times. Offering a diverse range of form and colour there is a Salvia for nearly every garden situation with more and more being discovered and described all the time. The count now stands somewhere in excess of 1000, including subspecies, according to The Plant List. They are found on every continent except Antarctica.

    From a gardeners perspective they can not all be treated the same, they come from many different climates after all, but as a rule of thumb can be grouped into winter rainfall and summer rainfall species and with few exceptions they all prefer well drained soil.

    Soft leaved species from Central and South America are usually autumn and winter flowering. Coming from summer rainfall areas they typically need protection from dry heat and the accompanying high light intensity and they vary in their tolerance of winter damp. As with most plants the larger the leaves the more water they require, this also dictates how fast they grow with many growing several metres in a single season.

    Species from south western North America, South Africa, the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands are all winter growers and are tolerant or demanding of dry heat and summer drought. Slower growing but usually longer lived these all tend to have small, densely haired, silver or grey leaves or a combination of these traits which help them conserve moisture. Most of these require no additional water in Perth and are well adapted to our climate. They tend tend to flower from spring into summer.


    Prune back to where vigorous new basal growth is seen, never to dead wood, they appear to store little food in their stems and without leaves stand a chance of starving to death or at least struggle to regenerate. The exception is those few that are tuberous or clump forming, these can be cut to ground level once the stems start dying back in late autumn.
    • namaensis   CAG02290
      Height50cmWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterM - LLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A curious little southern African species forming a scantily clad shrublet with fine dark stems and small, crinkled, pale green, dissected leaves and short spikes of tubular, palest blue, two lipped flowers.

      Little drought tolerance but easy and quick growing in any well drained soil and still relatively hardy given its bright and dainty appearance. An appropriate companion, both geographically and culture-wise, for some of the karoid Pelargonium, P. ionidiflorum, P. reniforme, P. sidoides etc., perhaps on a bank with large boulders to compliment foliage and form.

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