Lots of colour when you need it most, throughout winter and into early spring, makes Leucadendron ‘Clone 91’ a shrub to cherish. This tough, compact, South African shrub is easy to grow in well drained soils and sunny situations. It doesn’t like fertilisers, so you don’t need to waste time and money on feeding it. This brings to mind the thought that on sunny banks and borders, both at the coast and further inland, a fascinating collection of colourful, compact growing, South African and Australian shrubs which thrive on neglect, needing nothing beyond a light pruning every year or so, could be planted as an intermingling, weed suppressing group, creating a tapestry of foliage and flowers with year round appeal.
The assorted shrubs could include Leucadendrons, such as ‘Clone 91’, ‘Piza’ and ‘Rising Sun’, Leucospermums such as ‘Champagne’ and ‘Harry Chittick’ (also from South Africa), and Australian Grevilleas including taller growing, year round flowering varieties such as ‘Robyn Hood’, ‘Superb’, ‘Pink Surprise’ and ‘Robin Gordon’ and low growing, winter flowering types such as ‘Mt Tamboritha’, ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, ‘Cream and Green’ and ‘Drummer Boy’.
Such a planting serves as a native bird attractor, adding to the visual pleasure and bringing the best of bird songs to the garden.
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