We often get asked what the plants are that feature in our branding headers and advert images.
Sometimes they're "photographer's choice" and we don't make a note of them, but often they're easy to identify and among our most popular tubestock plants.
Here are some of the plants featured in our main branding images :
Clockwise from top left :
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azalea, in bud, top left of the box image. This one is a small-leafed small-flowered variety called Christmas Cheer, very perky and deeply-coloured.
There are many different colours and flower sizes of azalea to choose from - cuphea - these easy to grow plants flower readily from tubestock size in pink, purple and white
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anthurium - a lovely indoor or tropical shade plant with lots of colourways from chocolate and white to magenta and orange.
Red is the classic, and most commonly seen flower colour, a perfect Valentine loveheart.
The heart-shaped leaf in the centre of this image belongs to this plant too - they're all about the hearts! - Indian hawthorn ( Rhaphiolepis) flowers in in rose pink, pale pink and white depending on the variety; the flowers are followed by blue berries
Clockwise from top left :
- grevillea - a huge family of native shrubs and trees with many leaf shapes and types, many with a feathery ferny look like the leaves just peeking out of centre-left in the box.
This one from Sandra Gordon is more typical, shape-wise, and has gold coloured leaves when new, very bling! - alternanthera Little Ruby below the red anthurium flower is a plum-purple fast-growing groundcover, and one of our best selling plants
- privet (Ligustrum), next to the Little Ruby, is a dense tall hedging and shelter break shrub with small wiggly leaves
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dianella Silver Streak, a bright white-striped form of the native flax lily, creates beautiful edges to flowering garden borders.
If you like these leaves take a look at mondo Stripey White ( Ophiopogon) too.
Clockwise from top left :
- Indian hawthorn ( Rhaphiolepis)- resilient evergreen hedging, bushy and compact, this time flowering in pink
- pittosporum, another lovely evergreen hedging plant with distinctive chocolate-black stems that you can see at the centre back of the box
- lemon cypress Lemon Scent ( Cupressus) , a lemon-scented golden-leavedconifer, bright-coloured and lovely in gardens or pots
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callistemon, with soft velvety new leaves emerging. Many bottlebrush callistemons have colourful new leaves in shades of pink and brick-red, a contrast to the lemon-lime pale green ones seen here.
You can see those in our post Which Callistemon is Best For Leaf Colour?
Clockwise from top left :
- Loropetalum Purple Pixie, deep plum-coloured groundcover shrub with pink tassel flowers which pop out against dark leaves; one of our best-sellers
- native orchid ( Spathoglottis), those looong pleated leaves in the centre are also the orchid's
- alternanthera, Brazilian Red Hots the brightest of these brightly-coloured popular groundcovers, for frost-free gardens
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waterfall plant ( Phyllanthus), a gently weeping bushy dense shrub ideal for hedges, topiary, and wildlife shelter.
The dwarf honeysuckle ( Lonicera) also has long arching stems of tiny herringbone leaves and makes a great topiary or bonsai shrub
