Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Aug 27, 2009 11:17 am Our first spring in our new house and many plants we put in last year/early this year are starting to flower, thought I would share (show off ) some photos Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ have always known these as 'snow in summer', becasue they are covered in white flowers in summer, not sure of correct name, this was transplanted from our old house and I grew original plant from a cutting I pinched from Woolworths car park Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ dont know what this is called, it is an Australian native but I have lost the label (this isnt a very informative thread, is it ) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ good old Diosma, cant beat them, so easy to grow and flower prolifically Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Rosemary. You can use the leaves in cooking too Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ golden glow Eurypos (spelling?) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Purple Pride - forget correct name, another Australian native Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Daisy - yes, well, Im sure we all know them. dont go past old faithfuls, very easy flowering plant, will do well for many years as long as you prune it back hard after flowering. end of slide show Re: Spring flowers (aka Helyn showing off) 2Aug 27, 2009 11:22 am Looking good Helyn!! I reckon I would be showing off my garden too! Thanks for the reminder about the Rosemary, I need to make sure I plant one somewhere too! -adds to list- 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Spring flowers (aka Helyn showing off) 3Aug 27, 2009 12:57 pm Lovely Diosmas are great and put on a really good show. Rosemary are so hardy. Well done with the cutting! Convolvulus? Re: Spring flowers (aka Helyn showing off) 4Aug 27, 2009 1:07 pm Sometimes it's bizarre how it happens. (But why can't I trip over answers to the big questions or next week's lotto numbers or something?) I was just looking at a gardening forum and there it was, Purple Pride Geraldton Wax! Re: Spring flowers (aka Helyn showing off) 5Aug 27, 2009 2:22 pm Macy Lovely Diosmas are great and put on a really good show. Rosemary are so hardy. Well done with the cutting! Convolvulus? Yep, they are convolvulus - we had them in the front garden at our old house until the builders squashed them under about 20 tonnes of rubble!!! Your flowers look great, Helyn. Don't you just love spring? MagicJ I finally have my own reno thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28335 The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue! Re: Spring flowers (aka Helyn showing off) 6Aug 28, 2009 1:56 am Purple pride is a Chamelaucium and it isn't an Australian native.... Nooooo no nooo, it's West Aussie native! woo! Native to us It's a Gero plant http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/21818 The diosmas are a very well adapted plant to Australia, they are South African I have heard of them being used for growing Australian plants on. For grafting onto a better root stock. The other one is silver bush or Convovulous cneorum. Snow in summer is cerastium. Same colour leaves and flower and nothing wrong with your common name, if the shoe fits, wear it The other one with white flowers is also a Chamelaucium, but in white which is very common around Perth and the west coast up to Gero. 5 petals, cup shaped flower base and the leaves are also the same as purple pride. Purple pride will need more water than the white one. Please make sure you keep them well clipped, a little bit often. That is a good key with many Aussie natives. They are not low maintenance plants. If you do that they will look magic for you. Try not to cut into hard wood, just the soft growth after flowering and a few times in between. Especially the Gero waxes (Chamelauciums) Many let their natives get all big and woody and yuck, then chop them back hard. They never come back to good compared with light regular pruning. Chuck all the clippings back on the soil so the stored nutrients return back to the plant. Best of all it is the very nutrients that plant wants in the right balance. Those daisies will also need regular clipping after the flower, this will stop them getting woody like Marguerite and federation daisies do. Heaps more flower too Looks blingin' magic Helyn . It would be coming up to Grandfinal time too when you "made him" do the lawn last year What have you planned this year for him? Re: Spring flowers (aka Helyn showing off) 8Aug 28, 2009 11:03 am We do have a small lawn area too SuH but mostly shrubs in stones or bark chips. Fu, yes, DH and I are a good gardening team - - Plants: I selected them, he put them in; Pebbles, bark chips: I designed the layout, he did the laying, etc Thanks for all your info on names and upkeep, everyone Re: Spring flowers (aka Helyn showing off) 9Aug 28, 2009 8:56 pm SuH WOWSER Helyn that looks special now tell me who would want silly old grass everywhere when you can have all that gorgeousness and did you know that in the US the west coast they have lawn buyback schemes to encourage folks to chuck the lawn. I suggest we begin to lobby our government ministers to also look at similar things here in Australia. DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair We purchased a 1960s property that is on timber stumps mostly, and a newer section is on concrete stumps. We had a building inspection initially and they reported some… 0 9634 I couldn't attached the photo for some reason. 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