FLOWERING SHRUBS
SUITABLE FOR WELLINGTON
■"Interested"' has'.:'..asked for the names of half-a-dozen showy flowering shrubs suitable for growing at Karori. It is hard to limit any list to a mere half-dozen. There are so many really desirable shrubs, any of which should thrivo in that district. : Lasiandra grandiflora has flowers of a rich deep purple up to five or six inches in diameter, and grows to a height of 4ft to 6ft. Lepnotis' leonurus, sometimes known aa lion's tail, is a hardy shrub which grows to about 6ft high and produces spikes of bright orange scarlet flowers lin whorls. Plumbago capiiisis bears pale blue flowers iil' • tHe"fs£Stumn. Attains:; a height of about:.|'sft y 'and has a semiclimbing habit; when' supported. Prostanthei'a, of which there are some half-dozen varieties, -Jinown as Australian mint bushes. The best is probably P. rotundifolia, which grows to sft or i 6ft high, and is covered with purplishviolet flowers., The-growth is compact, and the plants flower Tvhdn quite young, i Spring and summer flowering. Oestrum elegans (formerly Habroth--1 amnus) isa showy shrub growing to I,oft. The ; flowers are. produced on the terminals of tlio, branches, and arc bright carmine. Spring flowering. Tho Variety noeturnum has creamy yellow h'ighly-scentcd flpvrers. ■~. ,■> Abutilbns, "in variety, are shrubs which grPw ■ from 4ft to -Bft; high', according to variety and. position.. They are hardly -ever without flowers, the colours of which arc white, pink, yellow, or crimson. Sometimes called Japanese lanterns. The above half-dozen, may not be evcrjbody's favourites, but they arc all good, satisfactory tshrubu to grow. Among other hardy onca which re-
quire no special treatment aro Protcas (red, pink, and cream), rhododendrons, azalias, romniya coulteri (white), lilac (various), hydrangeas, erythrina (coral trco), ericas (various), cydonia japonica (red, pink, and white), clianthus (white ajid red), amalanchier (wliito), camellias (white, pink, and red), ceanothus (blue), cantua depens (red),) and buddlcia (lavender).
FLOWERING SHRUBS
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1933, Page 17
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