I had no idea there was a prostrate casuarina:
This crowea was thriving in a pot:
"Peaches and Cream" grevillea:
Collection of natives in pots:
And what Australian garden would be complete without a tyre swan or two?
Monday, April 6, 2015
Australian Garden
Took advantage of the public holiday to zip down the empty freeways to visit the Australian Garden of the Botanic Gardens at Cranbourne. It is a few years since I was last there, and the plantings have filled out beautifully since then. Here are a few things that caught my eye.
I had no idea there was a prostrate casuarina:
Swamp oak, Casuarina glauca.
This crowea was thriving in a pot:
Willow-leaved crowea, Crowea saligna.
"Peaches and Cream" grevillea:
Beautiful, and bees like it too.
Collection of natives in pots:
And what Australian garden would be complete without a tyre swan or two?
I haven't seen one with a wooden head before.
I had no idea there was a prostrate casuarina:
This crowea was thriving in a pot:
"Peaches and Cream" grevillea:
Collection of natives in pots:
And what Australian garden would be complete without a tyre swan or two?
thanks for the beautiful pictures
ReplyDeleteI have a wooden headed swan made by my grandfather, head has suffered by little in the rain. He saw one on a trip to Adelaide and copied it when he got home, all about 50 years ago.
ReplyDeleteFunny about the prostrate casuarina, I have been looking for a suitable plant and snapped a picture of Casuarina obesa also prostrate at the Melb Botanic Gardens at the beginning of this month. Maybe it is they are their new cover up plants. Makes lovely mounds.