Grevillea 'Shirley Howie'
The pointed leaves are entire and up to 45cm long by about 4mm
wide. The upper surface is green with a distinct mid-vein whilst the
underside is covered in short hairs. The mid-vein is also prominent on the
underside. The leaf edges are rolled under. The flowers are born in dense
clusters at the ends of laterals - some short and others long and the
styles 10mm long.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from its stated parents in that it grows higher than is usual for G. capitellata and the leaves are larger than is usual for G. capitellata and the leaves are larger than is usual for G. sericea.
Correa 'Pink Frost'
Low shrub to c. 0.4 m x 0.4 m with a moderately dense habit.
Leaves dark-green, scabrous, cordate, 24 mm x 15 mm. Corolla cylindrical 23
mm x 5 mm, rose pink. Corolla splits almost to calyx with age, giving
impression of a flared bell. Corolla tips strongly reflexed. Flowering is
from May to September in most districts with peak flowering in August.
Diagnosis:
Similar to C. aemula in leaf shape and surface characteristics,
slender pedicels, calyx with acuminate lobes and splitting corolla. Similar
to C. pulchella in flower colour, uniformity of colour on corolla and
strongly reflexed petal tips. This hybrid is unusual and is not similar to
any other registered cultivars.
Callistemon 'Benalla Beauty'
This is an open, medium to large shrub which grows to
approximately 3 metres high and 2 metres wide. Leaves are dull green in
colour. The bottle brush flowers form in bunches from September to
November. Individual flowers are bright pink, fading to paler tones and are
60 -70mm long and 25mm in diameter.
Diagnosis:
The distinguishing features of this cultivar are bright pink
bottlebrush flowers which are borne in very large bunches.
Babingtonia bidwillii 'Howie's Sweet Midget'
It is a small compact plant reachinga height of up to 500mm by
ca. 600mm wide. The leaves are opposite, ca. 10mm long and 1.5mm wide. The
five petalled flowers form in small umbels near the ends of branchlets and
are 5-6mm across. The flowers occur in summer.
Diagnosis:
Its compact dwarf habit distinguishes it from its parents which
usually grow to 3m or more.
Banksia integrifolia 'Roller Coaster'
The cultivar is basically prostrate spreading to 4m wide. The
central stem rises to ca. 100-150 mm from which point the branches arch
out. Occasional branches arch up to 150 mm tall. The leaves are wedge
shaped with toothed margins and are from 50-70 mm long. The new growth is a
bronzy green. The flower spikes are lemon yellow and 90-110 mm long by
60-70 mm inside. The flowering season is autumn and winter.
Diagnosis:
B. 'Roller Coaster' can be distinguished by its prostrate form.
Grevillea 'Poorinda Belinda'
A shrub with laxly spreading to divaricate branches; leaves
15-25mm long,2-4mm broad, oblong to narrow elliptical, + acute with
scarcely pungent points, glabrous glossy and trinerved above, the margins
recurved; infloresence a short loose raceme, the rachis 7-8mm long,
pubescent; flowers on slender pubescent pedicals 5-7mm long; perianth tube
8-10mm long + 1mm diameter near the recurved limb, dilating to + 3mm
diameter below the middle, pubescent, the limb 2.25mm diameter, more
densely pubescent; ovary villous as is the 2mm long stipe; style + 20mm
long villous in the lower part with scattered hairs above, disc surrounding
stigma obicular 2mm diameter, glabrous.
Diagnosis:
Grevillea 'Poorinda Belinda' differs from G. juniperina chiefly
in its scarcely pungent + flat leaves; perianth tube more broadley dilated
below the middle; ovary and stipe villous, the stipe much less than 4mm
long, and inits hairy style.
Comparators:
Grevillea juniperina R.Br. 13M (Ca 21Km) from
Braidwood-Nerriga, New South Wales, D.W. Shoobridge, 28-10-1962 CBG 013054.
Notes:
Another attractive addition to the "Poorinda" range of cultivars and
one that is similiar at least in leaf shape to G. 'Poorinda Signet'. It can
be distinguished from that cultivar by the innocuous points of its leaves;
its shorter inflorescence and the hairy covering of its branches which is
not distinctively whitish grey. Differences to be seen are densely hairy
ovary of G. 'Poorinda Belinda', its much longer hairy style and its overall
flower colour which is a pale orange shade rather than brick red.
Alyogyne 'Delightfully Double'
Medium shrub approximately 1.8m in diameter with large double purple flowers in early Summer through to late Autumn.
Anigozanthos 'Bush Twilight'
Compact growing Anigozanthos hybrid having an average height of 200mm with yellow flowers
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'Festival'
Small dense tree. Flowers: small, creamy white in terminal panicles. Sepals: white at first (Nov), ripening (mid Dec) to deep red on inside of sepal, and rose red on outside of sepal.
Ceratopetalum gummiferum 'Bill Winter'
Upright, bushy, evergreen small tree. Leaves: opposite, trifoliate, flat, waxy. Leaflets: length medium (mean 61.97mm), width medium (mean 15.96mm), shape elliptic, apex acute (point rounded), base oblique-attenuate, upper surface dark green, lower surface lighter green, margin serrated, colour of new growth orange-red with a green midrib. Flowers: small, creamy white in terminal panicles. Sepals: 4-5 broadly obovate, sepal-circle mean diameter 19.65mm, white at first flower (Nov), ripening (mid Dec) to orange-red (RHS 180B) on inside of sepal and orange-red.
Selected for its striking, dark green foliage, and superior fruit size, colour and density