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  • Oenothera
  • Rehmannia
    • elata ‘Romantic Affair’   CAG00965
      Height60cmWidth1mFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterMLightPart Shade
      Rehmannia elata ‘Romantic Affair’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A Chinese perennial with flat rosettes of jagged, dark green, red backed, velvety leaves form a dense carpet from which arises slender stems, elegantly bearing large, very showy, nodding, trumpet shaped, yellow throated, pale pink flowers. Very romantic as the name suggests.

      Easily grown in moist, well drained, preferably alkaline soil in a sheltered site and very vigorous when happy.

      Winter dormant.

  • 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.
    • uliginosa   CAG00689

      (Bog Sage)
      Height1.5mWidth1.5mFlowering SeasonSu - AuWaterMLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A spreading perennial. Roughly textured, mid to dark green, finely toothed leaves, are borne in pairs on tall, erect stems, carrying dense spikes of brilliant, sky blue, hooded, tubular flowers, throughout Summer. Remove any stems that have finished flowering and cut back to ground level at the end of autumn.

  • Saxifraga
    • stolonifera   CAG02948

      (Strawberry saxifrage)
      Height15cmWidth1mFlowering SeasonSpringWaterHLightShade
      Saxifraga stolonifera
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A rampant groundcover for moist shade. Popular for its round, scalloped, coarsely haired, silver veined leaves and clouds of white butterfly-like flowers borne briefly in spring. Forming a dense colony of plantlets by means of rosy red stolons, particularly nice draping from a hanging basket, which provide a too easy means of propagation and to which it owes its common name.

      Tends to desiccate in our low humidity summers but its vigour soon compensates during cooler, humid weather to the point that it may need annual thinning.

      Not hardy but unique, lovely and easy to grow, if you can provide it with a choice spot. Maybe as a groundcover between large ferns and cool climate shrubs.

  • Scutellaria
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