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SFTC Native Bee Collection 1


$9.95

This collection of honeybee attracting seed contains:

  • Preminghama Buttons
  • Showy Podolepis
  • Guitar Plant
  • Native Geranium

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

Description

Craspedia preminghama

Preminghama Buttons

  • Rosette forming perennial.
  • Growth rate fast.
  • Mass plantings, rockeries, pots, borders, bush gardens.
  • Most soils except very wet.
  • Full sun to part shade.
  • Moderately frost hardy.
  • Extremely drought tolerant.
  • Flowers in Spring.
  • Long flowering.
  • Will self seed in native plantings.
  • Preserved flowers are great in flower arrangements.
  • Bee attracting.

Lomatia tinctoria

Guitar Plant

  • Small evergreen shrub 1.0-1.2 m
  • Growth rate medium.
  • Use for shrubberies.
  • Most soils but best on heavy types.
  • Full sun to part shade.
  • Extremely frost hardy.
  • Very drought resistant (once established).
  • Very wind firm.
  • Flowers in spring & summer (cream).
  • Bird attracting (honeyeaters).
  • Bee attracting.

Podolepis jaceoides

Showy Podolepis

  • Rosette forming perennial; 0.5 m
  • Growth rate fast.
  • Use for mass plantings, rockeries, pots, borders, bush gardens.
  • Most soils except very wet.
  • Full sun to part shade.
  • Very frost hardy.
  • Extremely drought tolerant.
  • Flowers in spring.
  • Pruning not required but remove spent flowers.
  • Long flowering.
  • Will self seed in native plantings.
  • Fantastic mass planting species.
  • Bee attracting.

Pelargonium australe

Native Geranium

  • Low evergreen shrub 0.3-0.5m
  • Growth rate fast.
  • Use for mass plantings, rockeries, pots, borders.
  • Most soils except very wet.
  • Full sun to part shade.
  • Very frost hardy.
  • Extremely drought tolerant.
  • Flowers in spring & summer.
  • Prune hard in winter or after flowering.
  • Long flowering.
  • Very good in sand.
  • Very good coastal species.
  • Bee attracting.

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