Tag: spring flowering

  • Low Shrubbery: Acacia howittii ‘Honey Bun’

    Low Shrubbery: Acacia howittii ‘Honey Bun’

    I have had my eye on this little dwarf form of Acacia for a few years now, it isn’t as common as some of the Acacia cognata dwarfs, which is one of the reasons it appeals to me. This is Acacia howittii ‘Honey Bun’ and it is an incredibly pretty and useful low shrub, suitable for…

  • Delicate Tea Trees: Leptospermum ‘Cardwell’

    Delicate Tea Trees: Leptospermum ‘Cardwell’

    I love tea trees or Leptospermums, I’m not sure what it is about them that appeals to me so much. Perhaps their soft weeping foliage or the way they can get absolutely covered in flowers so much so that you can hardly see their leaves from a distance. And the flowers are showy, individually they…

  • Yellow, Cream and White Orchids: Dendrobium speciosum

    Yellow, Cream and White Orchids: Dendrobium speciosum

    It is a most fabulous season for the Dendrobium speciosums this year, there is no other word for it, they are putting on a massive show whenever I see them, and they seem to be everywhere all of a sudden, many of them in non native gardens which is always great to see.

  • Mint Bush: Prostanthera rotundifolia

    Mint Bush: Prostanthera rotundifolia

      The Australian mint bushes really smell far superior to regular mint, not as sweet a bit more citric.