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Bold Blue Tongue: Melastoma affine

The colour of this flower is contentious, is it purple or deep pink? it also looks different in the flesh as opposed to on screen and it comes in a white form. This is Melastoma affine, a medium shrub found… Read more ›

Kath Gadd
Bush tucker, Shade tolerant, Small garden
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One for that difficult damp spot: Bauera rubioides

This is Dog Rose one of the few native plants with a likeable common name 😉 Bauera rubioides grows happily in those moist positions in sun or shade where other native plants rot or succumb to fungal diseases. It makes a… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Natives for containers, Shade tolerant, Winter flowering
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Blue Tongue: Melastoma affine

This showy little shrub is Melastoma affine or Native Lasiandra, it really does look like a dwarf form of the incredibly popular south American Tibouchina, which lights up the streets of many inner western Sydney suburbs. However, this is not… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Bush tucker, Shade tolerant, Small garden, Tropical garden
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I don’t normally like Hibiscus but…Alyogyne huegelii

I don’t normally like hibiscus, native OR exotic BUT Alyogyne huegelii is an exception, plus probably some other hybrids of it…. Check out that colour, you don’t often see that shade of purple on a native plant. The other equally important factor… Read more ›

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Kath Gadd
Bird attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Hedge
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