| Description | Allocasuarina torulosa
The Forest Sheoak is a hardy native Australian tree with a light brown bark with deep fissures. The leaves are thin green needles like a pine tree. A good garden specimen.
Male Forest Sheoak trees have gold flowers in Autumn and the female have rounded warty cones. In Winter the branches turn a beautiful copper colour. Sheoaks are good for windbreaks and screening. | Bacopa monnieri
The Brahmi plant, commonly called Water Hyssop, is highly regarded as an herb that enhances memory. It can be consumed fresh or used in a tea when dried. A sprig of Brahmi placed in a murky fish tank can clear the water by the next day. This plant is indigenous to India and thrives in warm, moist soils with some shade. It is sensitive to drought and frost. As a perennial ground cover, it typically grows to dimensions of 0.15m by 0.60m.
sidered to be an important herb in the ancient Indian medicine, and is reported to have similar properties to another herb called the gotu kola otherwise known as the arthritis plant here in Australia and the remedies made from both plants are used in similar ways to treat symptoms. In India it has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years for mental health including memory, learning, as well as anxiety and mental fatigue. It is also used as a general tonic. The leaves and stems of Brahmi are taken to improve memory, concentration, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, mental exhaustion and stress. For the older person it can be useful to ward off Alzheimer | Polygala myrtifolia x dalmaisiana
Polygala Dazzler is a shrub that originates from South Africa and has attractive, almost year round, purple pea-like flowers on light green foliage. It makes a great flowering hedge.
Polygala Dazzler prefers a well-drained position, but tolerates poor soils, frost and dry conditions. Pruning in early Spring will encourage bushiness and flowers. Best feed regularly with a slow release fertiliser.
10" pot size. |
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| botanical name |
Bacopa Monniera, or Indian Pennyworth, or Water Hyssop
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| botanical name |
Polygala x dalmaisiana
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| height x width |
1-1.5m x 1-1.5m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 80cm-1m
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| features |
Soft magenta-purple pea-like flowers over the warmer months
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen, general garden planting, pots, hedge
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