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.
This time last year everything in the nursery was smelling gorgeous - and it's that season again! Our pink jasmines walkway makes trips around the nursery a real pleasure, as all those early spring blossoms have the most powerful fragrance. Running alongside is a low hedge of Italian lavender which the bees appreciate as much as the staff. Create your own Fragrant Jasmine & Lavender Walkway with the help of our blog post.
It's a great reminder that gardening involves all the senses - it's why we're also creating a series of blog posts on Sensory Gardening too.
Brunfelsia is starting to flower; it's got a deep honey scent. This plants often gets called yesterday today tomorrow as the flowers change colour from purple to lilac to white. Sweetly fragrant Michelia and fruity-fragrant port wine magnolia are enjoying the warmer weather, as the bees get busy.
More gorgeous white and purple! Big satiny blooms of native hibiscus,and big satiny blooms of tropical tibouchinae. You can see they flower enthusiastically, even when small shrubs
One of our most recent additions to the range and instantly popular, brand new patio and groundcover roses in a range of colours. They're really keen to grow and bloom as much and as long as they can - amazing value for you.
Spring means azaleas - especially if you're in the Blue Mountains or the southern states. We plant our azaleas around the car park which helps to beautify it! At the top of the alphabet, these two are Alba Magnifica and Alphonse Anderson. Azaleas will often bloom twice a year in spring and again in autumn for heaps of garden value.
Society garlic is always popular as it flowers from tubestock size. This new variety Pink Stars is showing up in great style. Another reliable bloomer is Indian hawthorn, and this pale pink one, Springtime is aptly namedSalvias will flower while tubestock size, giving you an instant garden; we love this variety Tequila for the dramatic contrast of red and black in every flower.
Talking of great value, you can't go past Pieris for long seasons of colour. Winter spring flowers, new leaf colour, evergreen foliage - they bring it all to the party.
Christmas Cheer has pale pink flowers and rust-red leaves; Mountain Fireis big and bold with copper-pink new shoots; Pieris japonica has cascades of white flowers and scarlet new growth.
It's really rewarding to get up close with garden plants, especially natives. We pulled out the zoom lens for these three, with tiny individual flowers that together make a big impact :
headland ziera;
fringed heath myrtle; and
Lomandra Tanika
Not a native, but looking very like one, is pink diosma. This is a tubestock plant in flower - they really want to put on a show for you! New Ozbreed agapanthus Cool Steel is flowering for the first time this year and looking spectacular already.While Little Polly is one of the most vibrant garden plants you could hope for.
It's grevillea season here at the nursery and our top paddock is a rainbow of colour and filled with happy birdsong. It makes working here a real pleasure!
Grevillea Apricot Hots and Coral Shore are tow of our exclusive range of plants, and bred especially for our nursery.
Grevilleas are hugely varied in size, shape, colour, habit, leaf, and flower. There's a grevillea for every flavour of garden. Poorinda Anticipation gives you a huge shrub with cinnamon-tan bark, musk-pink flowers, and holly-like leaves.
Grevillea Moonlight is always a favourite with our gardeners for the long flowering season. Local birds love it too for a tall singing post, and a handy source of nectar.
Leptospermum tea trees is in full bloom, feeding hungry pollinators. Always one of our best-selling native plants - and with blossoms in abundance like these over such a long season it's easy to see why. These two are white Cardwell, and hot pink Love Affair
Here's a little bee busy in the tea tree blossom of Pink Cascade; Burgundy Queen outside our office door; and multi-shaded Ballerina, perfect if you can't decide whether you like white, pink, or magenta tea trees!
Most of our bottlebrushes are full of buds ready for the big spring push, but a few early birds have taken advantage of the warmth.
Here, Wilderness White and Dawson River Weeper showing off in the sunshine.
Here, Wilderness White and Dawson River Weeper showing off in the sunshine.
Spring is also coloured-leaf season, as shrubs put out bright new growth. Some of it is as colourful as the flowers! When the sun shines, lilly pilly Orange Twist really glows; lilly pilly blush satinash shimmers in deep gold, and grey myrtle is lit up in sunlight.
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 space - and maybe add a new plant or two!
We hope this has inspired you to take a fresh look at your outdoor space - and maybe add a new plant or two!
