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PLANT OF THE WEEK #84: Salvia nemorosa types (like 'Caradonna')
By Michael
Dec 14, 2021
There are few plants more striking in the garden, right now (just pre-Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere) than the nemorosa-type salvias.  They’re powerful in shape (piercingl
PLANT OF THE WEEK #83: Orlaya grandiflora
By Michael
Dec 7, 2021
I remember well receiving a packet of Orlaya grandiflora seeds from that fabulous gardener from the NSW Southern Highlands, Col Blanch, about 20 years ago.  I was between houses,
PLANT OF THE WEEK #82: Stipa gigantea
By Richard
Nov 30, 2021
The best view of our back garden is from the new clothesline.  This wasn’t intentional. From the clothesline, the old metal shed barely encroaches on my peripheral vision, the g

PLANT OF THE WEEK #83: Orlaya grandiflora
By Michael
Dec 7, 2021

I remember well receiving a packet of Orlaya grandiflora seeds from that fabulous gardener from the NSW Southern Highlands, Col Blanch, about 20 years ago.  I was between houses, or some such thing, ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #82: Stipa gigantea
By Richard
Nov 30, 2021

The best view of our back garden is from the new clothesline.  This wasn’t intentional. From the clothesline, the old metal shed barely encroaches on my peripheral vision, the green Colorbond fence ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #81: Euphorbia 'Craigieburn'
By Michael
Nov 23, 2021

It’s all too rare in this age of plants with huge glossy labels for a new release to totally eclipse its horticultural predecessor.  It seems like the imperative for the novel and the new trumps tr ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #80: Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant'
By Michael
Nov 16, 2021

Were you gardening in the days before Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ became available in Australia?  I remember poring over British garden books, and yearning – like actually aching – to be able to ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #79: Geum 'Tangerine'
By Michael
Nov 9, 2021

There’s been a twenty-or-so year hiatus in my growing of Geum ‘Tangerine’.  Now I have it back, I wonder how I survived without it. According to the Woodbridge nursery website, it was Dennis No ...