In Flower This Week
A weekly news sheet prepared by a Gardens' volunteer.
Numbers before each plant refer to temporary IFTW labels in the gardens.
Numbers in square brackets [ ] refer to garden bed Sections. Plants in flower are in bold type.
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27 July 2012
Grevillea flexuosa click for larger image |
Today we will follow one arm of the Main Path almost to the end, then return via a different route.
- On the right hand side of the VIC door are some noteworthy pots. One outstanding kangaroo paw with deep orange flowers is Anigozanthos ‘Bush Volcano’ bred by Gardening Australia’s Angus Stewart.
- Also in a pot is the long-flowering Grevillea leptobotrys with tangled grey foliage and pink flower rods.
- Woollsia pungens has white terminal flower heads with a strong scent worth sampling.
- Skirt past the café to notice Banksia ‘Stumpy Gold’ with numerous slender candles of gold on a neat mounded bush.
- It is hard to ignore Acacia alata var. biglandulosa with white fluffy flowers on flattened phyllodes.
- Eriostemon ‘J. Semmens’ has pink cupped flowers on a bush with small leafed foliage.
- Banksia ericifolia var. ericifolia has plenty of large orange candles on a small bush with heath-like leaves.
- The stunning Banksia spinulosa var. neoanglica is covered in yellow-gold spikes on a small neat bush.
- Grevillea rhyolitica subsp. rhyolitica has clusters of nectar-filled red flowers on a large bush loved by Eastern Spinebills.
- Grevillea ‘Lady O’is similar to the previous grevillea but more brightly coloured.
- Hakea ‘Winter Burgundy’ has bright pink flower clusters on a sparse bush with long leathery leaves.
- Grevillea lavandulacea has deep red flowers contrasting with grey foliage.
- Grevillea baueri is a low bush with neat foliage and pendent red and cream flowers.
- Grevillea dielsiana has stiff and prickly foliage with orange flowers with red styles.
- Grevillea minutiflora [Section 26] has cream rods of flower on needle-like foliage.
- This bush of Grevillea ripicola has orange flowers with red styles with gold tips.
- Turn sharp right back towards the VIC. Grevillea flexuosa is a spreading bush with rigid prickly foliage and cream rods of flower.
- Grevillea nana is a low bush with bright pink flowers.
- Eremophila drummondii is an airy bush with bright green linear leaves and lilac tubular flowers.
Rosalind Walcott.