Trees & Shrubs
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Malvaceae
Hardy shrub
Trusses of large, saucer-shaped flowers, which vary in colour from almost white to light blue-mauve, are borne profusely from July until September, offset by large greyish-green, rather felted leaves. They do well in almost any well drained soil, ...
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$3.06 / packet
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Common Name: GOLDEN WATTLE
Leguminosae
Half hardy shrub
The "Aroma Doble" or "Golden Wattle" grows very quickly reaching 4-5m in five to six years.
Flowering very early, it produces cylindrical clusters of fragrant golden-yellow flowers from February to April,
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$3.85 / packet
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Leguminosae
Half hardy shrub
One of the hardiest mimosas with thin, strap-shaped, willow-like leaves and dense sprays of fragrant, light lemon, fuzzy flowers in spring and summer. This little beauty is called Wirilda in Australia.
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$3.38 / packet
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Leguminosae
Half hardy shrub
The "Red-stemmed wattle" is an unusually hardy bushy shrub with red-purple bark, bearing dense balls of bright yellow flowers appear in early spring. Attractive fern-like, glaucous juvenile foliage and sickle-shaped adult leaves, which t...
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$4.08 / packet
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Hardy shrub
You will rarely see these plants offered never mind the seeds! A selection of very exotic shrubs to delight you as you grow old. Fresh seed collected in Central and Southern Chile. Includes coliguaya, cordia, flourensia, greigia, ugni and others. ...
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$4.32 / packet
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Common Name: MONKEY PUZZLE, CHILE PINE
Araucariaceae
Leathery, spine-tipped leaves clad long spidery branches, which are geometrically arrayed around the trunk like spokes of a cartwheel. One level is produced each year enabling the age of the tree to be easily calculated. When mature this is one...
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$6.20 / packet
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Ericaceae
Hardy tree
"Strawberry Tree". This slow-growing evergreen tree produces racemes of Lily of the Valley-like flowers, and in late autumn, strikingly attractive, edible, strawberry-like fruits.
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$3.38 / packet
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MYRSINACEAE
Half hardy shrub
The "Himalayan Coralberry" is a cool growing compact bush from the eastern Himalayas bearing dark green leaves with undulate margins. Profuse, star-shaped, white to pale pink flowers in early summer produce many berries in autumn and t...
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$4.47 / packet
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Ericaceae
Hardy shrub
Seed collected from our own twenty year old plants which were originally grown from seed collected from the famous Exbury Gardens. Colours in all shades from pale lemon to deepest red and every one dripping with heady perfume in spring and early ...
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$4.32 / packet
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Asteraceae
Hardy shrub
Collected on our 1994 Chile Expedition (RB94142) and new to cultivation is this dwarf South American equivalent to a New Zealand olearia. A compact evergreen shrublet bearing neat, diminutive, toothed leathery leaves. In July countless small 'shav...
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$4.24 / packet
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