Here is a plant I wouldn’t have dreamed of promoting even two weeks ago in the heat and dry. A wetland plant! Any of you with a dam, frogpond or even aquarium, may be familiar with an introduced primrose that can sprawl across the surface of the water and grow up from the shallows, with […]
Nursery Manager’s Plant of the Month – Geitonoplesium cymosum
The Scrambling Lily lives up to its name quite well, at least as far as scrambling goes. The ‘lily’ component is, like many native plants, something that might require a little more attention to detail to appreciate. Geitonoplesium cymosum is fairly common in our region in and along rainforest margins and wet sclerophyll forests. It […]
Nursery Manager’s Plant of the Month
Well… I was just asked to include a ‘Plant of the Month’ article in this newsletter. A quick mental lap of the nursery, followed by an on-foot inspection, and I had made my choice: Pararchidendron pruinosum, or Snow Wood. Such an intriguing plant, with its glorious puffball flowers, unique leaf structure and twisty orange seedpods. […]
