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The silver cascading Banksia ‘Roller Coaster’

This is one of the most useful native plants around, a prostrate form of the coast Banksia, Banksia integrifolia. I like to use it for covering embankments like the one in these images at the Bulli Grevillea Park. It also… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Groundcover, Winter flowering
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Two more lovelies for the Emu Bush Challenge: Eremophila cuneifolia and rotundifolia

I am still very, very slowly working on my Emu Bush plant palette, adding these two beauties Eremophila cuneifolia and Eremophila rotundifolia makes six, I’m halfway to my desired dozen…phew Both these species were grafted where I saw them in… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Frost tolerant, Winter flowering
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A job done well: Pandorea pandorana ‘Snowbells’

If you need a reliable, quick growing climber to screen or cover an area, that attracts birds and bees and generally looks healthy and flowers profusely… well then what do you think of Pandorea pandorana ‘Snowbells’? This is form of… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Winter flowering
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The multifaceted Eremophila oppositifolia

I am returning to a challenge I set myself over a year ago to increase my knowledge of the many beautiful and useful Eremophila species, I am quite behind the time line I set myself, but better late than never!… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Frost tolerant, Winter flowering
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