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Spear Lily: Doryanthes palmeri
This is Doryanthes palmeri or the Spear Lily, a striking feature plant similar to the Gymea Lily except that it has a flower spike that leans over and isn’t spherical and the foliage is less clumping and more linear.
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Over Planting
I love the combination of native plants in this tiny front garden and if my front garden was tiny i too would probably try to cram as many of my favourite plants in as possible. However this garden is over-planted, there is a WA grafted flowering gum, a tall Leptospermum scoparium, Westringia fruticosa, Melaleuca ‘Revolution Gold’…
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Grafted Eucalyptus ficifolia
This is Eucalyptus ‘Summer Red’ one of the best grafted Eucalyptus ficifolia, it has the largest leaf which is long and falcate to lanceolate shaped looking like a very traditional Eucalypt shape, but is also lush looking.
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Super hardy Grevillea ‘Winpara Gem’
Grevillea ‘Winpara Gem’ is one of my favourite Grevilleas, I love the colour grey green leaves that are deeply deivided which look soft and feathery from a distance.
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A Persoonia…
Persoonia pinifolia naturally grows in areas of sandstone, in sheltered positions with part sun.
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Unusual foliage
Of course this Grevillea intricata is from WA! these amazing needle like leaves form a dense tangle with the stems remaining a deep red, it is beautiful even when not in flower.
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Street address
This a grafted Grevillea and is planted on the lower side of a sandstone wall next to a Doryanthes excelsa and has been encouraged to spill over onto the street side.
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Lambertia formosa
I am constantly asked for plants that are bird attracting, which then leads to the question of what type of birds are you trying to attract?
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Favourite grass
Ficinia nodosa or as previously known Isolepsis is one of my favourite grasses, it grows anywhere from sand dunes to swamps.
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Banksia ground cover
This is Banksia blechnifolia, possibly one of the easiest WA banksia ground covers to grow on the east coast.
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Drum sticks
Isopogon anemonifolius is a local shrub that is found in many bushland areas around Sydney and also on top of Illawarra Escarpment.
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Pink Banksia
This is a beautiful specimen of Banksia occidentalis, that I saw growing in a private garden in south west Sydney.
Category: Bird attracting