Postage : Seeds only $4 / Plants $20
A super tough South African that should need little introduction, though, where once its autumn spectacle was taken for granted through the South West it is now being increasingly displaced by fleeting makeover starlets.
Clusters of large. flaring, funnel shaped flowers, pale pink and deepening with age, are carried atop sturdy, fleshy stems. The strappy, dark green leaves emerge after flowering from the necks of large, papery, brown bulbs that are typically somewhat exposed, adjusting to their preferred depth with the aid of contractile roots. Becoming deciduous with rising temperatures in spring and then requiring zero water over summer.
Infallible in any soil, in any position except the densest shade. Usually takes several years to settle in and commence flowering for perpetuity.
For me, nothing heralds more the imminent return of cooler weather and rain than the sight of fat buds thrusting naked from parched ground. I imagine it is the same joy that gardeners in cold regions feel on seeing the first hint of spring in a shoot emerging from snow.
An easy to grow, very showy, winter annual from our geographically disparate climate cousin Namaqualand. Dark eyed, soft orange to apricot daisy flowers are copiously produced above leafy clumps of light silvery green, narrowly lobed leaves.
Well adapted to poor sandy soil but happy in anything that is not too wet. In autumn or early winter scratch in or lightly cover seeds where they are to grow in as sunny position as possible and where they will hopefully reseed for coming years. Add an Ostrich or an Oryx or two for extra realism.
Each pack contains 50+ seeds.
A weird winter growing South African bulb with fleshy fans of greyish green leaves and short branching scapes of starfish-like, khaki flowers, heavily blotched with brown.
Exceedingly easy to grow in sandy soil and drought tolerant to the max.
A summer deciduous South African species forming a low mound of slightly spiny, silvery green, succulent branches densely clothed through the cooler months with felty, grey-green, scalloped leaves. White five petalled flowers, with prominent dark red blotches, age slowly to rosy pink and are borne in large circular clusters on slender stems during spring.
Easily grown in unirrigated, well drained, sunny soil. Tolerant of only light frost.
Exceedingly lovely in harsh conditions or as specimen in a large pot where its summer habit can be most appreciated.
Excess summer moisture will result in an early demise of this otherwise very long lived albeit relatively slow growing plant.
A small growing, evergreen, sprawling perennial with small, deeply incised, grey green leaves covering the stiff, wiry branches. Throughout the warmer months of the year, small, pale pink, butterfly-like flowers are borne profusely in airy clusters on slender stems.
Unusual for the genus the lower 3 petals are larger than the upper 2.
Removal of accumulated spent flowerheads and the occasional fatigued branch is all the maintenance necessary.
A tough little plant for the edge of paths, trailing over walls or in hanging baskets. As with all pelargoniums provide good drainage.