Tradescantia fluminesis Description Dietes iridioides is an evergreen, rhizomatous perennial. The flowers usually last only for a day, but new buds open over a long period in spring and early summer. Iris-like flowers are white, with central yellow marks that change to a deep brown towards the centre. They have six snowy white petals with [...]
Tradescantia fluminesis Description White Wandering Jew is a trailing groundcover plant with succulent stems. The glossy forest-green to parrot-green parallel-veined leaves are oblong to ovate with pointed tips. They are generally 2.5–6.4 centimetres long and 2.5–2.8 centimetres wide. Sometimes the leaves are slightly puckered with a seersucker texture. They emerge alternately from fuzzy margined closed [...]
Verbena rigida Description Two hundred and more species are recognized in this large group of perennials, most of them easy to grow and suitable for warm, dry climates. Verbena rigida is used as a perennial rockery plant. Most verbenas have a pleasant spicy fragrance. The leaves of the verbena are typically thin, lance-shaped leaves in [...]
Acacia podalyriifolia Description Tall shrub to small tree, three to five metres high with a slender trunk, low branched with a spreading crown. Bark is grey and smooth; the branchlets are covered with dense rigid hairs. Mature leaves are alternate, ovate to elliptic or oblong, two to five centimetres. Long and twelve to thirty millimetres [...]
Ajuga australis This little plant, which belongs to the mint family, Labiatae, has soft, furry, dark leaves and fleshy stems. The flowers grow in tiers up the erect stem. The flowers are purple and shaped like a tiny white angel with arms outstretched and wearing a long flowing gown. It has the appearance of a [...]
Taraxacum officinale A trailing or mat-forming evergreen shrub growing to a height of two to four metres, it bears heads of pink or orange posy-like flowers, each with a yellow eye. A native to the Americas, it is considered a noxious weed in northern Australia , while some species are cultivated in the southern regions. [...]
Taraxacum officinale This plant, despised as a weed, is one of nature’s greatest healing aids, and is a medicine chest in itself. It is a hardy perennial, and grows wild nearly everywhere. It has a fleshy root and a straight stem up to 20cm tall that rises precariously above the ground, and is topped by [...]
Acacia bailleyiana Description A large bushy shrub or tree with lovely silvery blue foliage, it takes on a purple hue when it grows in the warmer climate, where it is not cold enough for the tree to flower. The distinct purple colour, after which it is named, makes it an attractive ornamental and arises from [...]