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  • Glaucium
    • corniculatum   CAG02922

      (Horned poppy)
      Height30cmWidth50cmFlowering SeasonSp - AuWaterLLightFull Sun
      Glaucium corniculatum
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      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.

  • Habranthus
    • tubispathus ‘Cupreus’   CAG02137
      Height20cmWidth5cmFlowering SeasonAllWaterMLightSun - L. Sh.
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A diminutive, albeit charming, bulb whose coppery goblets pop up randomly through the year, with or without their accompanying grassy leaves, most often just a few days after rain.

      Exceedingly easy to grow it has adapted to be predominantly winter growing here though in habitat around the Gulf of Mexico as well Argentina and Uruguay I would expect it to grow more in summer to coincide with rainfall. It should perform well, at least in a pot, from Albany to Townsville.

      Tolerant, maybe even fond, of short periods of drought and flood though freezing is likely bad. An excellent pot subject small and demure enough to be a companion to larger potted celebrities.

      Slow to vegatively increase but self sowing in good conditions and then after a few years can make quite a spectacle in mass flower.

  • Hemerocallis

    (Daylilies)
    Xanthorrhoeaceae

    One of the worlds most popular garden plants, especially in the U.S. They are care free clump forming perennials with large beautiful flowers in a wide range of colours held over neat grass-like foliage. They are sensationally tough and are happy in just about any soil and climate found in Australia. They are also completely edible and in their native China are commonly consumed.

    We originally started growing and selling Daylilies in the eighties at one point having thousands of varieties and tens of thousands of plants in full production. They have large fleshy roots and are poorly suited to pot culture and so are traditionally sold bare rooted and establish very easily. While there was interest from the landscaping trade, some mass plantings can still be seen around Perth decades later, most gardeners in W.A. are conditioned to buying flowering plants in pots.

    We no longer maintain vast quantities nor keep up with the latest breeding developments, new varieties cost many hundreds of dollars. Instead we focus on choice varieties of outstanding garden merit. Many of these varieties are "old" and no longer popular and have almost ceased to exist. As with many plants modern breeding offers a fantastic array of flower colours and forms but there seems to be little regard to grace, habit and overall garden worthiness and most lack the elegance and charm of old favourites, tried and true.

    Daylilies do survive drought very well but will perform very poorly under such conditions and in our climate are perhaps not the most suitable plant for mass plantings but a large clump or two is easy enough to throw an occasional bucket of water on and will enrich any garden.
  • Kniphofia

    (Red hot poker, Torch Lily)
    Xanthorrhoeaceae

    Stunning plants with flower heads almost always of strong vertical form and in uncommon colourings. A staple of the garden design palette they are versatile and dependable in well drained soil, either in mass plantings, perhaps in an array of colours, and exceptional when combined with other flowers of simple form eg. Achillea, Echinops. At their best when sited so later season performers obscure their grass-like foliage which can become untidy after flowering and tending to burn in too dry heat.

    Though wild plants are predominantly from seasonally moist habitats in the summer rainfall regions of southern Africa they do survive periods of dryness well thanks to a fleshy root system but they will, with some exception, require a degree of summer moisture to perform and flower in our climate.
    • ‘Apricot Nectar’   CAG01070
      Height75cmWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSp / AuWaterMLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A clumping, evergreen perennial. Clumping rosettes of channeled, mid green, succulent, grass-like, arching leaves. In spring, densely packed spikes of pendant, tubular, apricot coloured flowers that surround the slender, erect stems are produced. Splendid architectural accent plants. Loved by nectar feeding birds. Bred in Australia by David Glen of Lambley Nursery.

    • ‘Orange Queen’   CAG00873
      Height1mWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterM - HLightSun
      Kniphofia ‘Orange Queen’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A tall variety with large vertical heads of rich orange flowers on sturdy stems from erect clumps of slightly glaucous, dark green, keeled, succulent and grass-like leaves.

      A reliable flowerer and among the latest to bloom with neater, darker foliage than many.

      For any reasonably well drained summer moist soil.

  • Leonotis
  • Lotus
    • berthelotii   CAG02935
      Height10cmWidth1mFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightSun
      Lotus berthelotii
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A stunning perennial groundcover now extinct in its native home the Canary Islands. The soft, trailing mat of whorled, grey-green linear leaves smothers in fiery clusters of red and orange beak-like flowers throughout spring.

      A quick growing, nitrogen fixing legume, traditionally regarded as a potted annual. In our ideal climate it also a hardy groundcover for well drained, sunny sites and is at its best in alkaline sand. Simulate its natural habitat by draping it down a limestone retaining wall or cliff, or just mass it for unbridled colour.

      Somewhat deciduous over summer, when over watering usually proves fatal. Frost tender. Easily propagated by cuttings.

  • Tithonia
    • rotundifolia   CAG00957

      (Mexican sunflower)
      Height2mWidth1mFlowering SeasonSu - AuWaterM - HLightSun
      Tithonia rotundifolia
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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      A quick growing summer annual from Central America, bearing all summer, large, luminous orange, yellow centred, daisy-like flowers with velour stems that are perfect for picking. Robust and shrubby under ideal conditions, clothed with large, softly hairy, three lobed leaves.

      An exceptional annual, once seen, never forgotten, unlike graceless dwarf varieties developed for regions with too short a summer. Plenty of additional water and a well drained, rich soil, is usually required for maximum magnificence. An attractive alternative, or compliment, to summer vegetables in the veggie garden.

      May self sow but it's best too collect some seed as insurance for the following year.

      Plant individually, 5mm deep, where they are to grow in spring, after any danger of frost, or start singly in pots, making sure to plant them out before they are too large, two or three pairs of true leaves is about right.

      Each pack contains a garden spectacle of 50+ seeds.

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