Anigozanthos 'Bush Glow'
This cultivar has flower scapes that reach 0.7m tall. The
individual flowers are a greenish-yellow. The flowers are covered with deep
red coloured hairs that give an orange appearance to the flowers.
Diagnosis:
A. humilis:
Small clumps 100mm wide by 100-500mm tall (flower scape).
Leaves 10mm wide by 200mm long; margins hairy, leaf surface hairy to
glabrous. Flower stems to 500mm; covered in wooly hairs; stems sometimes
branched. Flowers are tubular to 50mm long; covered in short hairs;
perianth lobes turned back; cream, yellow, orange pink or red in colour.
A. 'Bush Glow':
Leaves to 7mm wide by 400mm long; glabrous. Flower stems to
700mm tall, branched. Flowers tubular, 35-40mm long, perianth lobes
partially recurved, perianth greenish-yellow and densely covered with deep
red hairs, becoming short and sparse on the lower stem and red to red-black
in colour.
A. flavidus:
Clumps to 1m across and up to 2m tall. Leaves are 20-40mm wide
by up to 1m long; glabrous. Flower stem up to 2m; glabrous where branching
starts; flowers tubular, 30-40mm long, perianth lobes not curved back, red,
orange, pink,yellow or green in colour.
Anigozanthos 'Rambofury'
Medium compact selection 1.2m(h) x 1.5m(w) with red flowers. Comparitors: A. 'Big Red' and A. 'Bush Sunset'. Diagnosis: A. ‘Big Red’ has bright all red flowers and similar breeding to Rambofury where as A. Bush Fury has yellow hairs on the buds.
A. ‘Bush Sunset’ has similar breeding, bright red flowers and similar height to Rambofury. but has darker red flowers red 53A
Grevillea 'Robert's Ripper'
Bushy shrub to c 1m x 1.5m. Flowers: Pendulous sub-terminal
showy toothbrush racemes, deflexed below the line of the branches in a
massed display around the perimeter of the plant. Foliage:
Leaves 6-7.5 cm
long, 6.5-8 cm wide, obovate in outline, secund, divided 3-4 times, usually
with trisect secondary division; primary leaf lobes 3-7, ultimate lobes
2-2.5 cm long, 1mm wide, ascending, linear-acerose, stiff; apices of lobes
acute, mucro sharp, pungent; upper surface flat to slightly convex, green,
subshiny; lower surface packed with short curly white hairs in the grooves,
the midvein glabrous, green.
Flower:
Comparators:
Grevillea calliantha, which differs in its deep
burgundy-black and dull orange flowers, and less rigid, less prickly
leaves. Grevillea 'Carrington Cross', which differs in its large, spreading
habit, and its translucent pinky-mauve and grey flowers.
Reasons for distinctiveness:
Low, compact spreading habit, with showy pink
toothbrush flowers prominently displayed at the ends of the branches for
many months of the year.
Correa glabra var. turnbullii 'Barossa Gold'
Upright dense shrub growing to 1.5 m x 1.5 m with glossy mid
green foliage turning gold which makes this a highly ornamental plant. It
is not a variegated form as the whole leaf turns gold when the variety is
planted in the open. Leaves are elliptical, glabrous on both sides, glossy
on top growing up to 45 mm x 18 mm with obtuse tips and on very short
petioles. Leaves when crushed have a fruity smell. Flowers occur singly or
in pairs on short 4 mm pedicels at the end of short lateral branchlets. The
corolla is 24 mm long x 7 mm wide, crimson up to where the petal tips split
then grading to a pale green on the tips which are barely recurved. The
corolla bulges slightly just below the calyx. Stamens are strongly exerted.
Petal tips and filaments become pink with age. Calyx is cup-shaped, green
and glabrous, 4 mm x 5 mm in size. Peak flowering is from Autumn to Winter
but flowering may be spasmodic throughout the year.
Diagnosis:
This variety differs from other forms of C. glabra var
turnbullii in the golden foliage. It is the only form which has this
variation.
Veronica 'Monty's Blue'
Woody herb to c. 1m high; stems several or many from a large
woody rootstock, mostly erect and some flopping over.
Flowers:
In terminal racemes, 40–100, deep violet blue, Spring–Summer
Foliage:
Leaves lanceolate, mostly to 60mm long, apex acute, margins
serrate.
Comparators:
Veronica arenaria has linear and entire or with a few teeth or
with spreading irregular linear lobes and bright violet-blue flowers.
Veronica derwentiana usually has large lanceolate serrate leaves and
flowers white or pale lilac or pale blue
Reasons for distinctiveness:
A vigorous showy selection with the deep
violet blue flower spikes similar to V. arenaria and leaves similar to V.
derwentiana.