Liddle Wonder's Schemes & Themes - Winter
Here's some plants and features that we've added over the past few months. If you visit our site from time to time, this is a handy page to bookmark or add to your favourites for quick access to what's new on the site
Saxifraga Star Blush
Saxifraga x anglica 'Star Blush'
A supberb evergreen rockery or container plant with beautiful rosettes of dark green foliage and attractive pink flowers produced enmasse late Winter and early Spring. Grows well in most garden situations but needs a cool moist site in during Summer. 20 x 40cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Scabious Butterfly Blue
Scabious columbaria 'Butterfly Blue'
A butterfly-attracting plant that flowers virtually all-year-round. Lovely mauve-blue flowers flush in spring and look great right through to the coldest of frosts. Plant in a sunny or partly-shaded area, keep a little on the moist side. Grows 30cm high and spreads to 50cm. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Sophora Dragons Gold
Sophora molloyi 'Dragons Gold'
A beautiful compact selection that has bright, finely divided green leaves and oodles of golden-yellow clusters of hanging flowers from winter and into spring. An asset in any garden, it provides a natural look and attracts native birds. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Tecomanthe speciosa
Tecomanthe speciosa
A breath-taking climber discovered on the Three Kings Islands in 1945. All year round you’ll admire its very glossy thick deep-green leaves, and from winter through early spring the mature vine is graced with clusters of tubular cream green-tinged flowers. Very showy. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Tetratheca Bibelles
Tetratheca ciliata 'Bibelles'
A native of eastern Australia and built to handle the heat and dry spells. Flowers, around 10mm, bell-shaped and in nodding bunches, are present for most of the year and flush in spring. A dwarf shrub that’s a picture en masse, in borders and around the patio. Dainty and pretty. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Thuja Smaragd
Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd'
Arguably the tidiest conifer we've seen, Smaragd forms a lush green cone that's ideal for patio pots, driveway avenues and specimen trees. An upright shape that's a great way of introducing drama into a small garden, especially at an entranceway or on a bank if the garden is sloping. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Viburnum Emerald Beauty
Viburnum tinus 'Emerald Beauty'
A wonderful improvement on the species. This one's got very dark green and luxuriant leaves, showy deep red flower buds that open to rich creamy white flowers over a long period during winter and spring. Then, to top it off, flowers are followed by very dark-blue, almost black, berries. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Yucca Denby's Dream
Yucca gloriosa 'Denby's Dream'
An erect evergreen with sword-like leaves in a myriad of colours; blue-green bordered with a wide margin that changes from gold to a rich cream. Forms a rounded clump over ten years and as it matures, throws a spike of showy cream flowers late summer and autumn. A choice specimen and accent plant. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Yucca elephantipes
Yucca elephantipes
An evergreen well-known for its architectural, bold sword-shaped leaves and stout trunk. It's an invaluable eye-catching feature plant in sunny dry areas or as an accent plant in large rockeries. Once mature, clusters of white bell-shaped flowers are produced once or twice a year. An excellent container subject, both indoors and out. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
Zieria Pink Crystals
Zieria cytisoides 'Pink Crystals'
A neat rounded shrub with aromatic, grey, felty leaflets. Small clusters of pink flowers occur during spring. Hardy & adaptable to most soils with good drainage. Attractive grey foliage shrub for colour contrast. Compact habit - good tub subject. Grows 1x1m. Hardiness Zone - suits dark green area - click for details
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