Ferny Creek Horticultural Society Plant Collectors Sale and Garden Expo

If your in Melbourne.....

Ferny Creek Horticultural Society  will be holding its Plant Collectors Sale and Garden Expo for 2011

Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th March Sat 10am - 4.30pm Sun 10am- 4.30pm

100 Hilton Rd, Sassafras,Victoria, 3787

See the Web Site for details

Exhibitors Include:

Antique Perennials

B and T Ferns and Orchids

Country Farm Perennials

Ferny Creek Horticultural Society Members Plant Stall

Folly farm

Genats Bulbs

Gentiana Nursery

John Deer

Leaf Busters

Natural Selection

Garry and Sue Reid 

Sage Horticultural

Salvia Study Group

Murrary and Dorothy Saunders

Pacific Coast Irises

Yamina Rare Plant

Australian  Rhododendron Society

Cloud Hill - book signing

Diamond Valley Violets

Attila Kapitany - Succulents

In NSW why not visit the Open Fuchsia Garden and Gala Plant Sale

Who: Fuchsia Club of NSW Inc.

When: Saturday/ Sunday 12th/13th March 2011

Time: 10:00 am to 4:30pm each day

Where: 1 Albert Road Bullaburra 2784 ( in the Blue Mountains) Contact: Janice Devine 4759 3853 

Web: www.fuchsiacluvbnsw.com.au 

For all of the latest on Garden Shows visit our Plant Fair and Garden Show Page

A Gardeners guide to Crocus

Crocus are one of our favourite bulbs and nor is a great time to plant them, we grow them in pots and containers as well as in the garden and even naturalised into the lawn.

The article 'A Gardeners guide to Crocus' by Marcus Harvey Includes crocus for Australian gardeners and a look at the new book Janis Ruksans, titled, Crocuses : a complete guide to the genus. Marcus Harvey of Hill View Rare Plants holds Australia's largest collection of crocus species. 

Many of these wonderful plants are available from his nursery Hill View Rare Plants. Marcus provides us with an introduction to the genus including notes on those most suited to Australian conditions.

Janis Ruksans' is a Latvian Bulb expert and his book, Crocuses : a complete guide to the genus is perhaps the definitive guide to the genus. 

If you are interested in a good read and gardening try his book Buried Treasures : finding and growing the world's choicest bulbs, a bit of intrigue, a bit of travelogue and some great stories bulbs, bulb collecting and how to grow them, it would make a great gift (but buy two copies or read it yourself first) Try Florilegium Bookstore for the books. 

To read the full article on crocus with some recomendations for the Ausstralian garden visit the web site

Daffodil Time - Well at least its time to plant the bulbs....

Now is a great time to start browsing the Daffodil Catalogues Online and checking out some of the more interesting ones available. Daffodils are all Narcissus species and the flower is characterised by a central trumpet, or round shaped corona surrounded by a ring of six floral petals called the perianth. Did you know that the daffodil is national flower of Wales!  So you might be after a few dozen 'Tete a Tete' to plant in groups for the garden border. Or you might be looking for something a little more exotic, perhaps one of the species such as Narcissus Viridiflorus with its fasctinating thin green petals, or perhaps the 'Hoop Petticoat' Narcissus Citrinus with its lemon flowers (try Tonkins Bulbs) or perhaps the really rare Narcissus waiteri form Hill View Rare Plants. You can find them all and lots more in the catalogues on our Daffodil Bulbs Page

Or Perhaps it's really Tulip Time... Check out the Tulip Catalogues

Snowdrops and Snowflakes

Snowdrops and Snowflakes are both very desirable bulbs for the garden, they do however grow in different conditions and have different flowering habits, amongst the two groups we also have lots of different species, varieties and impoved cultivars.

Marcus Harvey from Hillview Rare plants provides us with a great rundown on the difference between the two, Snowdrops and Snowflakes and we learn about growing conditions.
Read the Full Article at Nurseries Online

Plant Sale - Gold Coast Area

HUGE PLANT SALE
BISMARK PALMS
CYCAD REVOLUTA
PANDANUS
BAMBOO
GOLDEN CANE
SOLITAIRE PALMS
SPINDLE PALMS
DRACENAS
YUKKAS
MANY DIFFERENT SIZES
& MORE VARIETIES.

PHONE SAM ON 0435 772 366
GOLD COAST QUEENSLAND

Best Plants 2010 - Perennials - Nurseries Online

From Lambley Nursery we have a list of some of the best perennials for 2010. The first is Agastache 'Sweet Lili' - Sweet Lili Humming Bird Mint (pictured). 
David and Marcus from Lambley say....
We found this beautiful plant growing in a bed of A. rupestris. It is obviously a hybrid, perhaps between A rupestris and A. cana or A. mexicana. It has all the virtues of the race, tough drought tolerant, long flowering and beautiful, so beautiful I've named it for my granddaughter. Most Agastache are pollinated by humming birds in the wild. A. 'Sweet Lili' is covered, from early summer until winter, with apricot tinted rich pink flowers. 120cm x 60cm. Sun. 


For the full list with photographs visit our Best Plants 2010 part 2

A list (with photographs and notes) from Don Teese at Yamina Rare Plants is on the way....

All the best to all our readers, full info on new catalogues next week.....

New Release Aloes - Best Plants of 2010 part 3

New Release Aloes from Aloe Aloe.

Michael from 'Aloe Aloe' has releases a range of new plants. Aloe hybrids sold are clones of unique selected superior plants with proven hybrid vigour so that gardeners and landscapers can be guaranteed quality plants that will alwaysperform and outshine other seed grown aloes.  These plants are stronger, cope better with a wider range of extremes (rain, dry, cold and heat) but also have stunning flower displays that last longer and flower younger, with superior and wide ranging colour tones.

Pictured is Super Red™ - The flower performance of Super Red is truly spectacular as its flower season (masses of red flowers) lasts from late summer to winter and it can produce its first flower at a very young age. The grey-green plant starts growing a stem from an early stage and the rosette divides when the plant is closer to maturity allowing an even greater flower display. Suitable as a feature plant in the garden, in a large pot or in tough landscaping conditions. (140cm x 90cm).

More Top Plants from 2010 

Magic Garden Roses have always been a favourite for mail order roses as well as supplying retail. Some of the top roses for 2010 were : Honey Dijon - A perfumed Hybrid Tea Rose, Loving memory - A great Rose for cut flowers, Remember Me and Mothers Love as well as Purple Tiger which is the only purple striped rose we have seen and an old favourite of ours Ashram a lovely golden coloured rose.

Links to new catalogues coming soon at www.nurseriesonline.com.au