A biennial poppy of poor dry soils around the Mediterranean Sea eastwards into Iran. Producing 5cm, burnt orange, saucer shaped flowers throughout the baking summer on sprawling, branching stems from appealing rosettes of hairy, blue-grey, pinnate leaves. Valuable summer colour with sumptuous mediterranen foliaged shrubs Euphorbia, Cistus, Santolina etc.

Exposure, excellent drainage and summer dryness are essential for best performance with alkaline coastal sands being ideal, though it's more tolerant of heavier soil and interior conditions than the yellow flowered G. flavum.
Rich soil will inevitably yield a leafy vegetable that flowers poorly and lives but briefly. If it persists for more than two years and self seeds then congratulations at having far greater garden potential than copious irrigation and soil improvers can ever provide.

One of the worlds most unique and amazing plants, fittingly named to honour a queen and native to sandplains on our own southern coast.

Broad, leathery, prickly edged leaves (scratchy rather than dangerous) hug the vertical branches and borne among them during spring are creamy white pincushion like flowers, followed by woody fruit. The true spectacle however is that upon flowering all the leaves flush with amazing shades of red, yellow and orange with the whole plant appearing like a gaudy artists impression of some long lost prehistoric life form.

Low summer humidity and poor sandy soil are likely to bring out the best colouration and most likely chance of survival. Not suitable for the east coast but a possibility perhaps in drier, less humid, inland areas.

It does have a reputation for being challenging to grow. I suspect largely due, as is so often the case, to overwatering and too rich a soil. As young plants they have been vigorous and perfectly heat tolerant in the nursery and would appear to have the utmost chance of success.

Offered here so that you may experiment too. Report back with results.

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.

An exceptional Iris, performing reliably in all but the shadiest of gardens, and having both beautiful flowers and valuable foliage.
The sturdy stems of strongly scented, white flag iris flowers are are held above compact clumps of sword-like, grey-green leaves.

Under favourable conditions it will repeat bloom several times throughout the year.

As with all Iris feed well and avoid high nitrogen fertilizers.
Prefers a well drained, alkaline soil and thrives in coastal conditions.

Used to great effect in large drifts, mass plantings or as edgings, due to the neat foliage. The perfect companion for Iris germanica ‘Nepalensis’, a stunning combination.

Extensively used by the landscaping industry, it is available bare rooted in any quantity.
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A West Australian cultivar exemplary for its tall stature, vigour and propensity for flowering. Many, large, soft burgundy flowers are held aloft on well branched stems that under ideal conditions may exceed 150cm in height. A densely clumping garden stalwart.

For well drained very sunny soil. Summer irrigation is unnecessary. Do not mulch.

A tall, Tall Bearded with particularly large, soft lavender flowers with pale citrine beards over sturdy fans of flat, grey leaves. Bred for west Australian conditions, vigorous and reliably flowering where others fail.

Easily grown in any reasonably well drained, sunny soil. Feed well for best results.

Very showy.

A Tall Bearded with softly burnt orange flowers with falls paling towards prominent orange beards. Tall and floriferous, even in warmer areas, with clumping fans of narrower and more green, glaucous leaves than most. (Bernard Hamner, R. 1988)

Easily grown in any well drained sunny soil. Feed well for best results.