Archive for 'Alyogyne'
Pruning your Alyogyne Huegelii
How to Prune Alyogyne Huegelii and other Australian Native Plants.
From time to time I get emails about pruning Australian Native Plants and the feeling I quite often get is that there are many gardeners that have a misconception that Australian Natives don’t like to be pruned.
And this really couldn’t be further from the truth. Banksias, [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2010 under Alyogyne, Pruning.
Tags: Alyogyne Huegelii, Australian native plant, Pruning
Comments: 1
Alyogyne Huegelii
Alyogyne Huegelii, aka the Native Hibiscus, is a shrub that you see from time to time in nurseries but rarely see in home gardens. I’ve often found this quite surprising though as it’s has so many great things going for it.
It grows naturally in sandy and gravelly soils in arid areas of Western Australia. This [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2009 under Alyogyne, Garden Plants.
Tags: Alyogyne Huegelii, drought tolerant plant, garden plant
Comments: 5
Alyogyne hakeifolia syn Melissa Anne
I’ve grown quite a few Alyogyne hakeifolias over the years. The best feature of this Alyogyne would have to be the deep purple tulip type flowers which occur on mass over summer. There aren’t many plants around that actually flower this well over summer so it may quite possibly be the only plant you may [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2009 under Alyogyne, Garden Plants, Gems.
Tags: Alyogyne hakeifolia, drought tolerant plant
Comments: 7