Tag: small shade tree

  • The show stopping: Banksia ‘Giant Candles’

    The show stopping: Banksia ‘Giant Candles’

    This superb specimen of Banksia ‘Giant Candles’ forced me to drive around the block a couple of times before I could find a park and give it the photo shoot it deserves. This extra large shrub or, as I prefer to call it, small tree is a cross between Banksia ericifolia and Banksia spinulosa. Somehow…

  • Powerful medicinal tree: Pittosporum angustifolium

    Powerful medicinal tree: Pittosporum angustifolium

    This is a small native Medicine plant affectionately known as Gumbi Gumbi, it actually has many names as it has many uses. It is also known as Western Pittosporum, Berrigan, Bitter Bush, Cattle Bush, Cheesewood, Butter Bush, Native Willow or Native Apricot. The properties of Gumbi Gumbi are quite potent and only those familiar with…