Behind the Scenes in our nursery
We love to see all the photos and videos of your garden plants that you email to us, and share on social media!
We thought we'd share some of ours with you in return, so you can see what's flowering at our place right now. Tap the images to jump to the product page.
We're drying out after cyclone Alfred - no damage thankfully, and much less rain than anticipated, so our nursery is fine. Our thoughts are with everyone further south on the coast who experienced the rain full force.
A beautiful pre-cyclone rainbow over the nursery - as Dolly says, if you want the rainbows, you gotta put up with the rain... And just a little bit of water on the lower part of the nursery. Happily the shed contents stayed dry!
The crepe myrtle party is unstoppable! -We make that three months non-stop for these super-flowery shrubs. No wonder they're so popular with our gardeners! Above, the musk pink of Hopi and dark-leaved Pinky Pink, appreciated by local bees
Here, the cool lilac of Yumi - and when the flowers finish, colourful seedpods like these on Grande Red
Encore azaleas are flowering, and will flower once again in spring. Sometimes they flower in between as well - such great value for money! Other azalea varieties are often repeat flowering too, like the huge-bloomed Orange Delight above. Tap the image above to go to the product page to see just how big the flowers are!
Early camellias are starting to flower and others are forming buds - so it's great they've been getting so much water to help those new buds form. Camellias come in a range of flower shapes, sizes, and colours, from the deep red-pink frilled doubled blooms of Bonanza, to the big saucer-shaped watercolour blooms of Weroona, and these little gems from a new variety we are trialling.
Curcumas - aka siam tulips - are well named for their exotic tulip-like flowers, some neat and petite, some big and showy, in shades of pink, white, purple. They bloom from tubestock size so you can unpack an instant garden! Right now they are creating a spectacular sight in our shadehouse - you could be enjoying this at home. The last flower is a new two-colour cyclamen which has been flowering enthusiastically in our shade house.
White is always a classic and popular choice for gardens : the tall slender spires of herbaceous perennial white whiskers; the small slender stems of all-white society garlic; and the fluffy pompoms of lilly pilly
Blue is second only to white in popularity in our gardens - and would likely be more popular if there were more naturally-blue flowers1 Here's three of those rare gems : little boy blue, a free-flowering fast-growing herbaceous perennial, Sweet Kate, a free-flowering fast-growing grassy perennial, and native kangaroo lobelia.
If you're hanging out for colour all year, have a go of grevillea. Local honeyeaters love the nectar and the taller bushes provide great perches for singing . Flowering in autumn here on the Sunshine Coast, are our very own new release Coral Shore; along with Pink Surprise; Golden Lyre; Cooroora Cascade; and creamy-white Moonlight. Also appreciated by birds and bees are the grass trees - they take a long white to grow their distinctive trunks but a surprisingly short time to get big enough for a flowerspike, if you can water them.
One or two of the callistemon are flowering this month : the white-flowered Anzac and Wilderness White, and the low-growing Rocky Rambler above. The new leaf colour from several varieties is more than making up for any lack of flowers - whether bright pink Great Balls of Fire, or silvery-grey Lavender Showers
.With all the leaf colour in the nursery we don't miss flowers - the new protea shoots are copper-brown; photinia Pink Marble glows deep pink in the afternoon ligt; and melaleuca Revolution Gold shines bright in raincloud or sunshine.
If you're looking for leaf colour, you can't go past indoor plants. Our shade houses look amazing as the plants are revelling in the recent overcast warm humid weather. Plenty of shade and water is exactly what they love. We couldn't resist giving you a peek behind the scenes.
And with almost two hundred different kinds of indoor plants to choose from, there's a perfect one for you.
There's always something to see and enjoy in a garden, every day of the year.
We hope this has inspired you to take a fresh look at your outdoor AND indoor space - and maybe add a new plant or two!
