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  • 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.

  • Linum
    • grandiflorum var. rubrum   CAG02455

      (Ruby flax, Scarlet flax)
      Height50cmWidth30cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
      SEEDS

      Satiny, saucer shaped flowers of glowing ruby, with a blood red centre, wave on fine leafy stems throughout spring until the heat of summer. Seemingly delicate, this North African annual prefers exposure and poor, hopefully alkaline, well drained soil but will grow just about anywhere that is not shaded, the flowers only open in direct sunlight.

      My favourite winter annual, it never fails to impress with a depth of colour seldom matched and is lusted after by all who see it it in the nursery.

      Press seeds on to lightly raked bare soil, do not cover (they need light to germinate), where they are to grow in autumn or early winter. Will self sow in light soils but will probably need the assistance of a light raking with the first rains in heavier soil.

      Each pack contains in excess of 50+ seeds.

  • Origanum
    • calcaratum   CAG02662
      Height30cmWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSu - AuWaterLLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      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.

    • vulgare ‘Thumble's Variety’   CAG02775

      (Oregano)
      Height5cmWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSpringWaterM - LLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      An attractive chartreuse groundcover forming a very flat dense mat of soft, rounded leaves. A flowing foil for brightly coloured flowers, magenta or electric blue are always winners with chartreuse, or as lift beneath the eaves of sombre foliaged shrubs.

      Foamy heads of small near white flowers in rosy bracts lend a free spirited beauty in spring.

      Just as tasty as the boring green forms but much more sun tolerant and reliable than O. vulgare ‘Aureum’, though not as brassy in colour, which it has superseded in the nursery.

  • Papaver
    • rhoeas   CAG02500

      (Flanders poppy)
      Height50cmWidth50cmFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
      SEEDS

      The annual Flanders poppy needs little introduction. Great satiny swathes of blood red poppies appear wherever sown and reappear forever more after any disturbance to the soil.

      With a predilection for well drained, alkaline soil, in full sun and exposure, it will none the less grow anywhere except the shadiest, most sodden of sites.

      Scratch seeds into bare soil during autumn or winter.

      Each pack contains a garden colonising 50+ seeds.

  • Ratibida
    • columnifera f. pulcherrima   CAG02680

      (Prairie coneflower, Mexican hat)
      Height1mWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSp - AuWaterM - LLightFull Sun
      Ratibida columnifera f. pulcherrima
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A richly coloured heat loving perennial found throughout North America and garden staple. Hardy and adaptable it thrives in any not overly moist soil where its gold edged, mahogany flowers with cone like centres will ceaselessly parade from spring until winter atop vertical stems loosely clad with soft green, pinnatifid leaves.

      Sensational with flowing grasses, tall perennials or as a quick easy ganache to save flavourless plantings.

      Best when cut down to ground level in winter to make room for new growth and in colder areas it will go dormant.

      May appreciate the addition of some ground limestone or dolomite in very acid soils.

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