winter sun Perennials

Achillea

Yarrow

Achillea has finely dissected, feathery foliage and a profusion of flat – topped flower heads in a variety of colours all season long. Excellent as a contrast plant in borders and as a cut flower. Mixed colours.

Height: 60cm – Spread: 35-40cm

Water-wise plants, prefer drier soil in full sun.

Bacopa

Sutera – perfect for spreading growth  

Bacopa is a trailing and spreading plant covered with masses of small flowers in lovely clear colours. Suitable for baskets, containers, rockeries or the odd awkward corner.

Height: 15-20cm – Spread: extensive

Colours: White, Pink, Blue, Violet

Brachyscome

Swan River Daisy – new improved varieties

Brachyscome is a good choice for filling in around tall, leggy plants and carpeting bare spots.They are especially effective as mass plantings, draping over retaining walls, in pots,hanging baskets and as borders. Our new varieties have larger blooms and brighter colours.

Height: 10cm – Spread: 30-40cm

Colours: Fresco Candy, Fresco Purple, Sundaisy White

Diascia

Twinspur  

One of our most beautiful indigenous plants is available in several delightful colours. Perfect for beds and borders or containers, they will repeat bloom if deadheaded correctly.

Height: 30cm – Spread: 25-30cm

Colours: Cranberry Red, White, Light Pink, Orange

Erigeron Karvinskianus

Fleabane

Useful “tough as nails” ground cover. Will grow anywhere and everywhere…Needs to be controlled.

Height: 20-30cm – Spread: extensive

Felicia Amelloides

Kingfisher Daisy  

This brilliant blue flowered indigenous plant is ideal for rockeries, edging or the odd difficult corner. Tough and long lived, cut back once a year to shape. Indigenous.

Height: 35cm – Spread: 30-40cm

Colours: Blue (green foliage)

Gaura Belleza

Butterfly Bush

These exquisite clump-forming plants produce masses of butterfly shaped flowers almost all year long. The long arching stems lend grace and charm, and the compact growth habit makes them especially suited to small gardens. Cut back annually to retain shape.

Height: 45-50cm – Spread: 40-50cm

Colours: Deep Pink, White, Pink

Gaura Lindheimeri

Butterfly Bush

This is a much taller and broader growing plant well suited to corporate landscapes and larger gardens. The white, flushed pink flowers resemble a multitude of butterflies when the plant is in full flower. These plants are cheerful, carefree and long flowering in warm, dry conditions.

Height: 60-70cm – Spread: 40-50cm

Gazania

Dazzling indigenous colour – water wise!  

Indigenous plants producing bright multi -coloured flowers, daisy like in appearance. They need well-drained sandy soil.

Height: 25cm – Spread: 20cm

Colours: Red, Yellow, Orange, Mixed Pink Shades, Strawberry Shortcake Mix, White, Mixed

Lavandula Dentata

French Lavender

French Lavender is a spreading, bushy shrub with dark grey and green leaves with characteristic toothed edges, and large, plump lavender coloured flowers. Flowers all summer long. Must have excellent drainage and full sun.

Height: 60cm – Spread: 50cm

Lavandula

Margaret Roberts – BEST SELLER!

One of the most popular Lavenders as it is fast growing. Evergreen and bushy with narrow grey leaves, it produces its tightly packed, dark blue flowers throughout the summer. Trim back flower stems to promote additional flowering.

Height: 1,2m – Spread: 1,2m

Lavandula Angustifolia Blue Spear

Blue Spear

A much improved Lavandula angustifolia type with better growth habit and flowering as compared to the Lavandula ellegance which it replaces. Intense grey foliage with bright blue flower spikes.

Height: 30cm – Spread: 30cm

Nemesia Aromatica

Cape Snapdragon – Nesia Series  

A new and improved wonderful indigenous plant with slightly fragrant flowers, much loved by bees. Nemesia prefers a warm spot in full sun and should not be over watered. Suitable for rockeries, containers and bedding.

Height: 30-35cm – Spread: 20-25cm

Colours: Tropical, Magenta, Yellow, Pink Fantasy, Banana Swirl

Osteospermum

African Daisy – Indigenous delight  

An easy to-grow indigenous plant that has a compact growth habit, and produces masses of daisy– like flowers.

Height: 45cm – Spread: 35-40cm

Colours: Red, White Purple Eye, Coral Magic, Dark Purple, Voltage Yellow, Bronze, Rose Magic, White, Pink Magic, Pink, Grand Canyon Mixed, Mixed

Pelargonium

Ivy Leaf Geranium

Compact plants that produce much larger flowers almost continuously throughout the warmer months. Perfect for baskets and containers of all kinds

Height: 20-25cm – Spread: 35-40cm

Colours: Lavender, Hot Pink Lilac, Burgundy, White, Pink, Mixed,  Dark Red

Penstemon F1 Arabesque

Beard Tongue – strong, upright and compact

Improved hybrid Penstemons that bear spikes of large, vibrant, tubular flowers in colours ranging from light pink to purple to red to magenta to violet, most with a contrasting white centre.

Height: 50-60cm – Spread: 35cm

Colours: Pink, Orchid, Appleblossom, Violet, Red

Ranunculus

Mache Series

Although F1 hybrid Ranunculus have been in use as cut flowers for some time, Mache performs magnificently in gardens. Together with the usual F1 hybrid vigour comes uniform, strong growing plants that produce an abundance of large, brightly coloured flowers over a long period from late winter until late spring.

Height: 30-40cm – Spread: 25-30cm

Colours: White, Yellow, Purple, Red, Rose, Pink, Orange, Mixed, Pastel Mixed

Salvia Farinacea

Mealy Sage

Although classed as a perennial, this Salvia is usually treated as an annual. Our Victoria Blue strain has the deepest of blue flowers and dense basal branching.

Height: 40cm

Colours: Blue

Salvia Mystic Spires

Deepest blue flowers of all time!

Very useful as a back of border or focal plant or massed in large groups. The well-branched plants have dark green foliage and tall spikes of dark blue flowers.

Height: 50-60cm – Spread: 40-50cm

Colours: Dark Blue

Scabiosa

Butterflies love them!  

Easy-to-grow Scabiosa must be one of the prettiest garden flowers. Growing in small clumps, the flowerheads stand above the foliage, gently moving with the slightest breeze.

Height: Tall – 40cm, Dwarf – 25cm

Tall: Fama Dark Blue, Fama White, Butterfly Blue (Dwarf)

Shasta Daisy

Brings essential white to the garden

White’ is vitally important in a garden. Apart from being a focal point, white acts as a ‘break’ between other colours. And what better way to do this than by using clumps of ever-so-easy Shastas. Just watch those buds enjoy the spring sunshine.

Height: 60cm – Spread:30-40cm

Stachys Lanata

Lamb’s Ears

A quick spreading groundcover best known for its delightful grey foliage, which is so, so soft. To keep plants compact and tidy, cut out flower spikes as they form.

Height: 25cm – Spread: 30-40cm

Statice Perezii

Sea Lavender

Statice perezii will flower for 12 months of the year – a blue blessing for any garden. But be warned – once planted they don’t like being moved!!

Height: 40cm – Spread: 35cm

Verbascum F1 Southern Charm

Mullein

Charming old-fashioned and easy plants, invaluable for lending height in borders with their tall spikes of flowers. SOUTHERN CHARM A taller growing variety with flowers in a lovely range of antique pastel colours; creamy yellow, rose and lavender.

Height: 70cm – Spread: 30cm

Verbena

Spilling and tumbling sensations

The fabulous perennial verbena produces long lasting blooms on drought tolerant plants that make a lovely addition to any garden. With their outstanding spreading habit, Verbena will look sensational spilling from baskets and containers or tumbling through borders and rockeries.

Height: 15-20cm – Spread: 40-50cm

Colours: Deep Pink, Pink, Lavender, Red, White