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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12 July 2013
Hakea recurva
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On this sunny midwinter day this pleasant walk will pass by many flowers.
- To start, at the base of the stairs leading to the Visitor Information Centre the slope is dotted with Thryptomene saxicola [Section 172], so attractive with its tiny pink flowers.
- Edging Banks Walk Mondurup Bell, Darwinia macrostegia [Section 174], has slim red buds now opening to downturned red-cream bell-shaped flowers on long low branches.
- Prostanthera phylicifolia [Section 210], seen falling down the rock face, is clad with small mauve flowers.
- At the end of this garden Grevillea ‘LadyO’ [Section 174] continues to display its lovely red flowers on open branches.
- Behind the notice board Olearia argophylla [Section 305] has long branches with soft leaves and small creamy daisy flowers.
- Take the road beside the Rainforest Gully where Grevillea rosmarinifolia ‘Rosy Posy’ [Section 128] dangles its grape-like red flower clusters.
- At this corner, Grevillea bipinnatifida ‘Jingle Bells’ [Section124] appears as a standard plant topped with dense foliage and lovely terminal red flower clusters.
- Further along, Grevillea ‘Goldfever’ [Section 124] is a low spreading shrub with many apricot-coloured flowers.
- Opposite the Brittle Gum lawn, Acronychia littoralis [Sections 114, 104] is a shrub of medium size, dense with large shiny leaves and clusters of small yellow flowers.
- In the triangular garden Epacris calvertiana var. calvertiana [Section 17] is a dense rounded shrub with many small tubular cream flowers.
- Beside is a Geraldton Wax, Chamelaucium ‘Cascade Brook’ [Section 17], a large spreading plant laden with buds and its attractive waxy pink-petalled flowers.
- At the corner of the Rainforest Gully a Lilly Pilly, Acmena smithii [Section 140], is a dense tall shrub clad in profusion of bright pink fruits which followed the small white fluffy flowers.
- In the other corner small Waxflower shrubs, Crowea ‘Festival’ [Section 123], bear pink star-shaped flowers.
- Follow this road towards the Rock Garden, where Grevillea lanigera [Section 15h] is a dense ground cover clad with pink flowers.
- Close by is a group of Grevillea iaspicula [Section 15h], originally from nearby Wee Jasper and bearing red-cream flower clusters.
- Continue along this road to the next corner where a group of hakeas can be seen. They include Hakea obtusa [Section 20], a large rounded shrub with ball-like flower clusters attached to the branches behind the foliage.
- In the same area is Hakea recurva [Section 20], a tall shrub with many branches clad with long sharp needle leaves and terminal lemon flower clusters.
- Return along the lower path where a Grevillea sp. [Section 14] flows down the slope next to the seat, bright with short toothbrush‑like red flowers.
- Take the attractive narrow path behind the Sundial edged with a Thryptomene sp. [Section 15r] that has low arching branches clad with tiny pink flowers.
- Here too is Baeckea crassifolia [Section 15r], a dwarf dense shrub vivid with deeper pink flowers.
- Acacia urophylla [Section 15r] is somewhat taller with short curved leaves and pale yellow flower balls.
- In front of the waterfall Guichenotia ledifolia [Section 4] is a rounded shrub clad with downturned cup‑shaped mauve flowers.
Flowers continue along this downward road leading back to the Café.
Barbara Daly