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ANPS Spring Native Plant Sale

18/10/2018

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This Saturday, 20th October, you have a fabulous opportunity to buy a wide range of locally grown native plants.  A good range of our plants from IDP Nursery will be there but other growers will be there with their plants as will the Australian Native Plant Society group who propagate plants for growing locally.

There will be plenty of knowledgeable people there to answer your questions about growing native plants in our environment. And of course a stroll through the botanic gardens after wards never goes amiss. Take your camera for all the lovely photo opportunities!

The sale is situated in the Southern Car Park of the Australian National Botanic Gardens from 8.30 am until 1.30 pm (or earlier if sold out). Plant lists will be available just before the sale from: https://nativeplantscbr.com.au.

​This sale really is very popular with people in the know so get there early and go with a list from the website above so that you know what you are looking for.

​See you there.
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Climate ready plants

11/10/2018

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Recently I attended a Climate-ready revegetation think fest along with Landcare volunteers and personnel led by CSIRO scientists. Whew talk about heavy going, we were boggled with information by the end of the day.

We spent the day looking at climate predictions for our region and what this might mean for the survival of our local species and for our gardens in general whether they are planted with natives or exotics.

We talked about the need for genetic diversity, species distribution, and choosing strategies for selecting plant provenance to increase the likelihood of local plants surviving into the future.
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We learned how to use internet tools that the CSIRO has been developing and use the Atlas of Living Australia website to see which plants might be the most hardy in our region in the coming years. This was a fascinating exercise and will definitely bring more insight into the choices I make when sourcing plants for the nursery in the future.

The main thing I got out of the day was that, whether or not we believe in climate change, weather patterns are changing and plants (and humans) have to be inventive to survive these tough days ahead.

​You can continue to rely on IDP nursery to be making informed choices and deliver plants that have the best chance of survival in our region because they have been carefully chosen for hardiness and they have been propagated and grown locally.  ​
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My favourite shrub

3/10/2018

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​Quite my favourite shrub in the garden is the Philotheca, formally called Eriostemon. It is in full glorious flower now but not only that, it has held its pretty pink buds all winter, as a promise that spring would come. Joy, it has! Now these Philotheca have so many flowers that one can barely see the leaves. In my garden I currently have mature shrubs of Philotheca myoporoides and Philotheca ‘Winter Rouge’. Philotheca myoporoides has limey green leaves, light pink buds through winter and white flowers in spring. Philotheca ‘Winter Rouge’ has darker green foliage tinged with burgundy, deep pink buds through winter and white flowers in spring. Both have foliage that is pleasantly aromatic when brushed against. Both have neat rounded dense profiles, Philotheca myoporoides grows to 1 - 2mH x 2mW while Philotheca ‘Winter Rouge’ grows to 0.8mH x 0.8mW. At IDP Nursery we currently have for sale Philotheca myoporoides, Philotheca ‘Profusion' 1.5mH x 1.5mW and Philotheca ‘Bournda Beauty' 1 - 1.5mH x 1 - 1.5mW. The latter two are just as glorious in flower as those in my garden, being just slightly different in size and a little different in leaf only. 
Of course there has to be other benefits to this plant to make it my all-time favourite. The first is that it is so adaptable to either full sun or shade. It is also very hardy to both frost and dry conditions and  there is a form to fit any shrubbery or it can be pruned to form the most dense of hedges.
This Saturday Iris will have her plants for sale at Cool Country Natives in Pialligo and on the 20th October she will be selling at the Australian Native Plants Association plant sale at the Australian Botanic Gardens. Either day it is wise to get in early for the pick of plants from growers who not only grow plants that suit the local environment but also grow the plants locally. Happy gardening this spring!
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    Alison
    Horticulturalist,
    ​keen gardener and propagator at IDP Nursery

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