Plant of the month – Cyclophyllum coprosmoides, Coast Canthium. I am quite pleased to have a bench full of vibrant young plants of this species to promote this month. Several times I have myself collected up seed and tried to propagate this species, with very poor results. But another landcare member must have brought a […]
Nursery Manager’s Plant of the Month – Native Primrose, Ludwigia octovalvis
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 […]
