Chrysocephalum baxteri 'Midget'
Leafy, compact, low shrub, 15cm high by 30cm wide, with very
small white everlasting flowerheads with yellow discs. As the shrub matures
it develops woody basal stems. Leaves 1.5-4mm long by 0.75mm wide,
alternate, sessile, recurved, apex obtuse. Upper surfaces of leaves
glabrous, lower surface tomentose, flowering stem 5-7cm long, flowerhead
10-15mm across. The rays are fringed. Flowerheads are solitary and
terminal. Flowering period is spring followed by a brief second period of
blooms in January when flowerheads are smaller. Outer involucral bracts are
tan in colour.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar has all the characteristics of the usual forms of
C. baxteri but is distinguished by the diminutive size of all the
characters of the plant - leaves, rays, flowerhead and fruit.
Crowea saligna 'PPCS1'
Small shrub with pink star flowers in Autumn and Winter. Spontaneous mutation: a sport appeared from Crowea saligna that had larger leaves and a taller height.
Dianella caerulea 'DBB03'
A small clumping plant 50cm high x 40cm wide with blue strappy leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DC101'
A small clumping plant 50cm high x 40cm wide with red basal leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DC150'
A small clumping plant 0.3m(h) x 0.4m(w) with blue strappy leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DCMP01'
A small clumping plant 0.4m(h) x 0.4m(w) with strappy leaves and purple and yellow flowers from September to November.
Dianella caerulea 'DCNCO'
strappy leaved shrub which grows to about 0.7m in diameter with blue and yellow flowers and purple fruit.
Grevillea 'Robert's Ripper'
Bushy shrub to c 1m x 1.5m. Flowers: Pendulous sub-terminal
showy toothbrush racemes, deflexed below the line of the branches in a
massed display around the perimeter of the plant. Foliage:
Leaves 6-7.5 cm
long, 6.5-8 cm wide, obovate in outline, secund, divided 3-4 times, usually
with trisect secondary division; primary leaf lobes 3-7, ultimate lobes
2-2.5 cm long, 1mm wide, ascending, linear-acerose, stiff; apices of lobes
acute, mucro sharp, pungent; upper surface flat to slightly convex, green,
subshiny; lower surface packed with short curly white hairs in the grooves,
the midvein glabrous, green.
Flower:
Comparators:
Grevillea calliantha, which differs in its deep
burgundy-black and dull orange flowers, and less rigid, less prickly
leaves. Grevillea 'Carrington Cross', which differs in its large, spreading
habit, and its translucent pinky-mauve and grey flowers.
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Low, compact spreading habit, with showy pink
toothbrush flowers prominently displayed at the ends of the branches for
many months of the year.
Correa glabra var. turnbullii 'Barossa Gold'
Upright dense shrub growing to 1.5 m x 1.5 m with glossy mid
green foliage turning gold which makes this a highly ornamental plant. It
is not a variegated form as the whole leaf turns gold when the variety is
planted in the open. Leaves are elliptical, glabrous on both sides, glossy
on top growing up to 45 mm x 18 mm with obtuse tips and on very short
petioles. Leaves when crushed have a fruity smell. Flowers occur singly or
in pairs on short 4 mm pedicels at the end of short lateral branchlets. The
corolla is 24 mm long x 7 mm wide, crimson up to where the petal tips split
then grading to a pale green on the tips which are barely recurved. The
corolla bulges slightly just below the calyx. Stamens are strongly exerted.
Petal tips and filaments become pink with age. Calyx is cup-shaped, green
and glabrous, 4 mm x 5 mm in size. Peak flowering is from Autumn to Winter
but flowering may be spasmodic throughout the year.
Diagnosis:
This variety differs from other forms of C. glabra var
turnbullii in the golden foliage. It is the only form which has this
variation.
Veronica 'Monty's Blue'
Woody herb to c. 1m high; stems several or many from a large
woody rootstock, mostly erect and some flopping over.
Flowers:
In terminal racemes, 40–100, deep violet blue, Spring–Summer
Foliage:
Leaves lanceolate, mostly to 60mm long, apex acute, margins
serrate.
Comparators:
Veronica arenaria has linear and entire or with a few teeth or
with spreading irregular linear lobes and bright violet-blue flowers.
Veronica derwentiana usually has large lanceolate serrate leaves and
flowers white or pale lilac or pale blue
Reasons for distinctiveness:
A vigorous showy selection with the deep
violet blue flower spikes similar to V. arenaria and leaves similar to V.
derwentiana.