| 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. | Thymus serpyllum
Pink Chintz thyme, is a low growing, ground covering perennial. It has all the same characteristics of Mother of Thyme, and is often called the same, only it has a paler pink flower. A hardy evergreen that once established, is quite drought resistant. It loves full sun in well drained soil. Water regularly until established. It's ground covering nature makes it a great ornamental plant, and people use it between paving and stepping stones, and in walkways. It's hardiness makes it great underfoot! It's also a great addition to any rock garden. This variety of thyme has a strong oregano type scent, and can be used in cooking in all the same ways as other thyme varieties. | Floribunda rosa 'Bonica Rose'
A very prolific flowering variety with the whole plant literally being covered in small cupped flowers of pretty shell-pink. Long flowering season.
Approximately 2ft in height.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. |
| 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. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Banksia marginata
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| height x width |
2m x 2m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 1m
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| features |
Leaves are slightly serrated with the top being green and underneath silver, pale yellow flower spikes occur in winter
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| conditions |
Full sun or dappled shade in well drained soil
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| landscape use |
Great screen or windbreak, mixed garden beds, specimen, cut flower or dried flower arrangements
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| botanical name |
Thymus serpyllum "Pink Chintz"
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