The Rebel Gardener

When I first came across Eremophila Big Poly (E Bignoniiflora x E Polyclada) I thought of it more as just another addition to my collection and just grew it in a pot for about 2 years. It wasn’t until I planted it into the ground though, that it actually came into it’s own. The first [...]

Eremophilas are a very variable genus of plants. They vary in size from prostrate ground covers to small shrubby trees, that vary in the colour of foliage from grey white to deep greens and also in flower colours which includes white, blue, purple, green, yellow, red, pink and apricot etc. Here’s just a few of [...]

Eremophila, a very under rated Garden Plant I never really appreciated what a great little garden plant the Eremophila was until I accidentally contaminated my garden soil with Phosphorus and killed most of my Banksias, Grevilleas and Proteas. The summer of 2006/7 was quite dry and to make matters worse we had water restrictions in [...]

Over the last ten years the types of plants that I’ve been interested in has broadened and developed. The part of the world where I live has now been in drought for about the last 12 years. Now when I use the word drought I use it in reference to the fact the our average [...]