BIRD FLOWERS
Crotalarias are not fully frost hardy, being indigenous to very much warmer areas than here, but numerous specimens have been seen to survive and flower each year under local conditions.
The shape of the predomi-
nantly large flowers of the 300 odd species resemble small birds, which gives them their common name of bird flowers. The Queensland bird flower, crotalaria agatiflora (shown here) makes an unusual and attractive
quick-growing plant of about 6ft to Bft high. It is responsive to hard pruning which can be done just before growth begins in spring. More frequent pruning is claimed to enhance the production of flowers.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33094, 8 December 1972, Page 15
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