Tasmanian’s largest native seed and spore collection since 1996!

SFTC Honey Bee Collection 5


$9.95

This collection of honeybee attracting seed contains:

  • Manuka
  • Showy Honey Myrtle
  • Lime Green Bottlebrush
  • Blackwood

Detailed germination notes are enclosed in the packet, and each of the 4 sachets contains a minimum of 12 seeds.

Description

Leptospermum scoparium

Manuka

  • Medium shrub 1.8-3.0m
  • Growth rate fast
  • Use for shrubberies, specimen, screen
  • Any soils including very wet or very dry
  • Full sun to partial shade
  • Very frost hardy
  • Very drought resistant
  • Very wind firm
  • White flowers spring to early summer
  • Pruning not required
  • Excellent honey source
  • Bee and bird attracting

Melaleuca nesophila

Showy Honey Myrtle

  • Neat rounded shrub 2.0-2.5m
  • Growth rate fast
  • Use for shelter, screen, hedge, specimen
  • Any soils wet or dry
  • Good coastal species
  • Full sun to part shade
  • Very frost hardy
  • Very drought tolerant
  • Very wind firm
  • Flowers in summer
  • Clips well as a hedge
  • Long flowering
  • Bee attracting
  • Bird and butterfly attracting

Melaleuca diosmifolia

Lime Green Bottlebrush

  • Neat rounded shrub 2.5-3.0m
  • Growth rate fast
  • Use for shelter, screen, hedge and specimen
  • Any soils – wet or dry
  • Full sun to part shade
  • Moderately frost hardy
  • Very drought tolerant
  • Very wind firm
  • Flowers spring and summer
  • Clips well as a hedge
  • Bee attracting

Acacia melanoxylon

Blackwood

  • Dense medium shrub to tall tree 4.0-6.0m
  • Growth rate fast
  • Any soils
  • Use for screen, windbreak, informal hedge, shade
  • Any soils
  • Full sun
  • Very frost hardy
  • Very drought tolerant
  • Very wind firm
  • Flowers late winter to early spring
  • Prune as required
  • Bee attracting
  • Bird habitat

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