Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Sep 03, 2010 5:06 pm Hi, I'm hoping that someone might know what this plant is that I drove past today. I am in Outer East suburbs of Melbourne. It has purple flowers which are like small bottle brush flowers and the plants I saw were about 1-1.5m tall and used like a hedge. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I am trying to plan a new front yard and think these would be nice along the fence Thanks in advance for any assistance! Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 3Sep 03, 2010 6:37 pm Thank you very much! That was fast I'm off to google the species now, but any pros/cons about this plant that you know of? We do get frosts here and cold winters and it would be planted in a full sun (west facing) position at the front (low) fenceline. Our soil has clay but I'm not sure to what extent yet. Thanks once again I am definitely a beginner gardener! Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 4Sep 03, 2010 7:49 pm Every winter it will turn yuck on you. They go black and spotty to say it in non technical terms, when frosts hit. Sometimes when they are a bit older and established and they have had their ups and downs, they handle it all a bit better Stick with my soil prep advice, and steer away from macro fertilisers to get the strongest and healthiest waterwise plants in your street Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 5Sep 03, 2010 7:51 pm There is loads of info here and much of it contradicts what the books and other Horts say. However in 10 years the books and other Horts will be saying the stuff posted here at Homeone Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 6Sep 03, 2010 7:59 pm thank you very much for your time. I have been trawling through most of the threads in this section - I tend to get a bit obsessive when it comes to researching! Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 7Sep 03, 2010 8:04 pm I have a couple of these (established) and they look rubbish a lot of the time including summer. There are better less needy plants around for a front yard IMO. Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 8Sep 03, 2010 8:12 pm Quote: I have a couple of these (established) and they look rubbish a lot of the time including summer. There are better less needy plants around for a front yard IMO. I was looking at other varieties of the Hebe Wiris and there are a couple of other ones that look similar to the one I saw today as well - Hebe Wiri Prince, Wiri Jewel and Wiri Vision, the colour. http://www.rnzih.org.nz/pages/imagesHebe.htm Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 9Sep 03, 2010 8:14 pm Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 10Sep 03, 2010 8:14 pm littleredrobyn Quote: I have a couple of these (established) and they look rubbish a lot of the time including summer. There are better less needy plants around for a front yard IMO. I was looking at other varieties of the Hebe Wiris and there are a couple of other ones that look similar to the one I saw today as well - Hebe Wiri Prince, Wiri Jewel and Wiri Vision, the colour. http://www.rnzih.org.nz/pages/imagesHebe.htm Same growth and performance. Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 11Sep 03, 2010 8:17 pm You want a nice tough and waterwise hedge, look to Correa dusky bells or Grevillea rhyolitica "Deua flame" Those two well and truly out perform Hebe's Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 12Sep 03, 2010 8:34 pm thanks off to google! I even dreamt about choosing plants last night Another question - is it possible to move camellias? We have 2 that are well established but not in such a great spot since we renovated. One (light pink) is 3m tall and the other (white) is about 2m. Are these too large to move successfully? Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 13Sep 03, 2010 8:42 pm They are meant to be pretty fussy about being dug up from what I have read. Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 14Sep 03, 2010 8:47 pm Also the hebe's probably look good after the tonne of rain we have had in the last 12 months. Mine are looking nice too atm won't be in 3 months. Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 15Sep 03, 2010 8:53 pm you can get a purple form of Bottlebrush I had it in my yard for a while and it looks amazing But I have had not seen it around my tubestock nursery or at any majors for a while but I am sure they could order it in I went outside once. The graphics were alright, but the gameplay sucked! Settlement:22nd June Slab:27th August Frame:16th Sept Bricked:21st Oct Roof:24th Nov Linings HANDOVER23rd March! Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 16Sep 04, 2010 1:23 am littleredrobyn thanks off to google! I even dreamt about choosing plants last night Another question - is it possible to move camellias? We have 2 that are well established but not in such a great spot since we renovated. One (light pink) is 3m tall and the other (white) is about 2m. Are these too large to move successfully? Just get into 'em. You have nothing to lose by trying What is the alternative? Getting rid of them? I'd be more than happy to do that but I bet you wouldn't. There is a chap here in Perth that has a wonderful Camellia garden and he has done it on stuff all water with them doing great. Not my cup of tea but many others love it First start prepping the soil where they will be growing. Shallow wide areas, not rich deep holes. 300-400mm deep and there isn't much going on to spend money on below that At the same time cut them back by 1/3 or slightly more. Feed them with lots of seasol and molasses. Get them strong. Then sharpen the spade up with a file or grinder. That way it will cut through the roots like butter. Must be a spade, not a shovel. Before digging them out of the ground, mark the trunk as facing a particular aspect. eg North. When you replant, plant them with that chalk mark facing the same direction. Don't worry if the foliage isn't right, we can change that later when it settles in Load up the straw to around 100mm thick, that's ya mulch. Then drench with molasses and seasol. I would be tipping any old milk and yoghurt on there too and watering in ( It works a treat so don't knock it, I'm trialling it ) Then go have a cuppa or a beer for a job well done Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 17Sep 05, 2010 8:17 pm Thanks once again for the advice Fu Manchu Quote: Must be a spade, not a shovel. In the end am not going to cry if we lose the camellias, they were here when we moved in 8 years ago and although the winter colour is great - the falling flowers give us the irrits! One is at the side of the driveway and the other at our front path so they make a lot of mess. I am thinking that they could be good somewhere else in the garden though, where the falling flowers aren't an issue. I will give it a go! Thanks mecha-wombat for the tip on the purple bottle brush too, I will have a look I think I prefer a purplish flower to an orange/red. I'm disappointed that the Hebes aren't as great as I'd like them to be BeatrixKiddo Quote: Also the hebe's probably look good after the tonne of rain we have had in the last 12 months. Mine are looking nice too atm won't be in 3 months. Re: Please help ID this purple flowering plant, thanks! 18Sep 08, 2010 12:40 am It's cool, not too many pay much thought to them. Get the right tool for the job and the job is easy as A shovel, usually something for moving larger volumes of soils. Good for soft soils like composts or sand. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ A spade, with a flat blade and preferably a rolled edge on top so your boots don't get cut up when digging with it These are mostly for cutting. Keep the edge shape with a grinder or file. The job will be much easier ... and if you cut your toe off because you were wearing thongs, the doctor can sow it back on much easier because it will have a clean cut Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 0 4744 Thankyou so much 😀 I've decided on White on white for doors and trims, White on white 50% on ceiling and Mt buller for walls. Fingers crossed it will look OK 😀 2 7271 i had the my concreters concrete right up to the fence. I have pits all along my path, so the water tends to drain away from the house and into the pits. There's only one… 7 12865 |