| Description | Banksia marginata 'Silver Banksia'
A classic woody native Australian shrub, Banksias are great for a low maintenance garden and create interest with their recognizable flower cones. Silver Banksias will grow to the size of a large shrub and and good for screening. They're also great for coastal areas, as they're naturally found by the sea and tolerate sand and salt.
10" pot size. | Rosa hybrid tea
Mr Lincoln is a beautifully high held, vigorous rose with bright red petals and a strong sweet fragrance. Fantastic for bouquets and cut flowers, mass planting, rose & cottage gardens. Place in well drained soil, in a full sun position. Available in many variations.
8"/20cm pot size, approximately 2ft in height. | Aeonium arboreum
The Houseleek succulent makes highly decorative small to medium sized succulent with rosettes of triangular leaves, some are densely covered by silvery-white hairs, other have grey-green leaves or will turn bright red in full sun.
Unlike uncountable more or less robust hybrids, the real, very robust species offered here are hardly known and very rare. |
| Content | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging.
Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses right up there with your climbers and weeping varieties, amongst all their beautiful colour, variety and hardy nature there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. | |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Banksia marginata
|
| height x width |
2m x 2m
|
| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 1m
|
| features |
Leaves are slightly serrated with the top being green and underneath silver, pale yellow flower spikes occur in winter
|
| conditions |
Full sun or dappled shade in well drained soil
|
| landscape use |
Great screen or windbreak, mixed garden beds, specimen, cut flower or dried flower arrangements
|
| |
|
