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An evergreen, perennial ground cover, forming mats of silvery leaves. Clusters of single, deep pink, rose-like flowers are borne in profusion on short, slender stems throughout the warmer months. In early spring, when new shoots are seen, cut back last years growth to the base. Needs well drained, alkaline soil. Excellent in hanging baskets or draped over rocks.
Knee high clumps of broad foliage crowned with masses of mid sized, yellow throated, strawberry pink flowers. Extremely floriferous and an outstanding garden and landscape plant.
Cheerful, in a word, best describes its presence.
Semi evergreen. Diploid.
A deceptively delicate looking shrub, happy in any impoverished soil, with or without root competition, preferably quite dry and well drained, in bright or dark shade, though less likely to flower well in the later. Alkaline soil or even pure limestone are to it's liking though it seems quite content in acid soil. Given adequate drainage it will grow rapidly, forming a loose bush of glossy, dark green, pinnate leaves, flowering constantly through the warmer months of the year with racemes of 2.5cm wide, pale pink, trumpet shaped flowers, in all likelihood self seeding into paving cracks and other inconvenient places, from which it's happily transplanted when very young.
Dead head to promote flowering but only prune back old spent stems when new basal growth has matured, or else risk a fine specimens premature demise.
A delicate looking Madagascan plant, often nurtured to its detriment. It is in reality quite hardy, tolerant of heat and frost and preferring to dry out completely between infrequent watering. The trailing stems bear scalloped, rosy pink leaves, covered in a silvery white powder which reflects intense heat and light and is easily removed by handling or heavy handed watering. In late winter small clusters of rosy pink flowers, each with four reflexed petals, are borne on slender stems and perfectly compliment the foliage for a unique and beguiling effect.
Its cultural preferences and trailing habit make it arguably the most suitable plant for hanging baskets in a mediterranean climate, though it is at equally at home in pots or in the garden if you are lucky enough to have very well drained soil. A delightful foil around the base of larger succulents or even roses and far more heat and drought tolerant than the oft used ground covering Sedum varieties (which are in reality alpines).
If it has one failing it is in being quite brittle but this is of little concern as each leaf will happily grow into a new plant.
A short lived but self seeding Winter growing perennial, native to much of southern Australia. The many branched, woody stems, carrying softly haired, shallowly lobed, palmate leaves, produce an abundance 5cm, pale pink, mallow-like flowers from early Spring until mid Summer.
Adaptable to any well drained soil and sunny position.
Seedlings are at their best in their second year after which I tend to remove them once they have dropped seed.
A mound forming oregano similar in habit to O. dictamnus, with less woolly, sage green leaves and the pendant, pink, hop like bracts extrude pale pink tubular flowers from midsummer into autumn.
Appears to be less demanding of an arid atmosphere and may be more cold tolerant, both difficult things for me to quantify but for gardens where O. dictamnus fails this may well succeed.
For a sunny, well drained position with occasional summer water. Constant moisture is poorly tolerated.
Remove old spent stems to make way for the strong new basal growth.