Spring Out The Front

Everything has settled in well in the front garden as it heads into it's second summer. My last house had a cottage garden in the front but now I've experienced growing natives I'll never go back. There's been a few deaths along the way. All the Carpet Queen Grevilleas and the Birthday Candle Banksias are no longer with us. Well there is one Birthday Candle just hanging on but it's not long for this world I think. I found out that these prefer a slightly heavier soil than my Perth sand.

The Gold Velvet kangaroo paws are flowering like mad. These flower over a long period and are as hard as nails. I can't recommend this variety highly enough for Perth gardens.

The Sandra Gordon grevilleas have just about finished flowering now and have been pruned back. These have a great show of yellow flowers from late winter through to mid spring. They went from about 400mm heigh to over 2 meters in a year and a half. If you want a fast growing native screen look no further. That's them along the fence in the photo above.