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  • Crassula
    • pellucida subsp. marginalis ‘Variegata’   CAG02794
      Crassula pellucida subsp. marginalis ‘Variegata’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      The succulent alternative to Babies tears (Soleirolia soleirolii) without the same need for constant moisture and high humidity. This variegated form creates a dense, ground hugging mat of trailing stems clad in grey-green and white leaves margined in dark red. Small cluster of white flowers are produced in spring adding to its pale effect.

      Very useful topping around larger potted plants or as a not too vigorous companion for bonsai.

      As with many succulents it is not tolerant of drought or much sun in our summers, gardeners in more humid environs could expect otherwise, but short dry spells are likely beneficial to growth and it is easy and relatively fast.

  • Cyclamen
  • Dianthus

    (Pink, Sweet william, Carnation)
    Caryophyllaceae

    The commonly encountered garden varieties are European plants of garden antiquity grown for their attractive, often perfumed, flowers which pick well. They are on the whole easily grown but demand excellent drainage and plenty of sun and are ideally suited to poor, dryer, well drained, alkaline soils. They are often encountered overgrown and root bound, tucked away in the shade, to which they are intolerant, and once purchased are good naturedly smothered with too much "good" garden practice.


    Pinks are known to all by name, which they lent to the colour, if not in person. Classic perennials of English cottage gardens. They have extensive root systems and most varieties offered are quite hardy in Perth with a good drink once a week over summer. They invariably have narrow, glaucous foliage resistant to dry air and high light intensity.

    Sweet williams (Dianthus barbatus) are biennials that will often persist for several years and typically have tall stems bearing clusters of small fringed flowers. They have broader leaves and require a bit softer conditions than the Pinks. The Nigrescens group seem the hardiest of the bunch and can become quite shrubby, potted colour varieties, often sold by the punnet, are worth growing but usually amount to little more than tender annuals.

    Carnations (Dianthus caryophyllus). Those developed for the cut flower market are mostly ugly plants needing support and are best left to the dedicated enthusiast or florist. Better garden plants are the seldom seen border carnations, they have the same beautiful flowers of the florist types but are less gawky, don't need staking, are often perfumed and are almost as hardy as the pinks.
    • ‘Watercolour’   CAG00213
      Dianthus ‘Watercolour’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      An exceptional plant forming a dense mat of needle-like, very glaucous foliage, studded with flat, stippled, pink and pinked, delicately scented flowers throughout the year but in abundance through spring.

      A variety we have grown for many years and it has never failed to impress both in beauty and hardiness. Drape it over walls, across or in paths, with a few small spring flowering southern African bulbs for some garden pizzazz, or have it spill from a large planter with a choice succulent companion.

  • Eumorphia
  • Euphorbia
  • Fragaria
    • chiloensis   CAG02377

      (Beach strawberry)
      Fragaria chiloensis
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      One of the wild ancestors of the modern strawberry found along the Pacific coast of both North and South America as well as Hawaii.

      A vigorous ground-cover spreading by surface rooting runners and well adapted to sandy soil or anything but the most compacted clay, where it will form a weed suppressing dark green mat composed of serrated, trifoliate leaves of which the underside and stalks are densely clothed in short soft hairs.

      Perhaps at it's most useful in shady sites, even solid dark shade, where it demands far less summer water than most any alternative. Plant with Spanish bluebells (Hyacinthoides hispanica) for some added spring colour.


      Of course this is still a Strawberry and the small, tart, but highly aromatic fruit are formed during spring and early summer from pure white rose-like flowers typically hidden amongst the foliage.

  • Gaillardia
    • ‘Burgunder’   CAG01165
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

    • x grandiflora ‘Matthew Dyson’   CAG01443
      Gaillardia x grandiflora ‘Matthew Dyson’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A glorious perennial cultivar found by us many moons ago amongst a batch of seedlings.
      The marmalade blooms, daisy-like with pinked petals (technically ray florets), vary in their shade of citrus through the year, from glowing tangerine in spring and autumn, fading to buff lemon over summer and always paling toward the rim. Abundant in bloom like all Gaillardia, and just as tolerant of heat and drought, the flowers hover over a weed suppressing blanket of silvery green leaves.

      Self seeds gently, mostly coming true with a few of the typical red and yellow.

      Cut back to the new basal growth as it emerges in winter or spring to maintain a semblance of tidiness.

      Best in well drained soils or sand, Gaillardia struggle in compacted, damp clay.

  • Gazania
    • ‘Lemon Soda’   CAG00252
      Gazania ‘Lemon Soda’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      An exceptional groundcover, the silver foliage flowing over hot, bare soil and amply furnished with 8cm wide, soft lemon, fully double, daisy-like flowers.
      Not to be confused with your everyday road verge Gazania, although Lemon Soda is equally as tough, this is a much more beautiful plant a must for every sunny garden and being fully double cannot self seed.

      Trim off spent flowers occasionally.


      Introduced to us via a keen gardener from Zimbabwe, who brought her favourite plants with her upon immigrating to Perth. We are ever grateful.

  • Geranium
    • x antipodeum ‘Sea Spray’   CAG01313
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A flat ground covering variety grown mainly for its beautiful satiny foliage which is round, scalloped and an unusual greenish bronze. As a garnish, trailing sprays of small, rounded, pale pink, five petalled flowers carry on through most of the warmer months.

      From New Zealand and Chatham Island stock it is evergreen and less shade loving than most of the European species and is easily grown in moist soil with good drainage, even in a pot.

      An annual removal of old flowering stems is all the attention required.

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