FLOWERING SHRUBS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 7 (Supplement)

FLOWERING SHRUBS

PRESENT PLANTING SPECIES. Uiosma Erecoides, “Breath of Heaven,” a handsome dwarf-growing evergreen shrub of heath-like appearance from South Africa, produces an abundance of small white flowers. The foliage is pleasantly perfumed with a dense compact habit of growth. It is quite hardy and flowers throughout the winter. It is a most desirable shrub for lawns and for the mixed border. Choisya Teraata. Choisya Ternata, “The Mexican Orange Blossom,” is a very distinct and beautiful :®ree-flowering hardy dwarf evergreen shrub from Mexico. It produces elegant spikes of white, sweet-scented flowers. Succeeds everywhere and should be generally planted. It flowers towards the cud of the win- ! tor. It is suitable for the mixed border I and as single lawn specimens. Polygala Grandis. Polygala Grandis is one of the most useful hardly, much-branched, evergreen free-flowering shrubs from South Africa. The pea-shaped purple flowers arc produced in abundance throughout the late autumn and during the winter. It succeeds everywhere, and is suitable as a lawn specimen, also in the mixed border ami shrubbery. The common variety is useful for mixing in the evergreen hedgerow. It stands clipping and always presents a green appearance, relieved by its flowers. Habrothamnus. The two varieties of habrothamnus, elegans and newellii, are identical in their growth and appearance. Newellii has the brightest coloured crimson flowers. They arc natives of Mexico. They arc in flower now and continue throughout the.winter and early spring. They enliven the garden with their bright dash of colour. Aurantiaciuni. the yellow-flowered cestrum, belongs to the same genus and is very ornamental. Trained as wall plants and in full flower they are most effective. Lasiandras. La; iamira nacrantha, the old variety, with rich deep violet purple flowers, and macrantha grandiflora, with very large violet-blue flowers and large, leaves, are most beautiful evergreen winter-flower-ing shrubs. They are natives of Brazil. They am now in flower. There is another variety, rosea, a pretty rose coloured kind. Lasiandras should have a place in every garden. They are dis- ; tinct from all other flowering shrubs. Grevillias. Grevillias are handsome evergreen flowering shrubs. The dwarf-growing, shrubby varieties deserves to be more generally known as few shrubs can surpass them for foliage and flowers. Grevillca dimorpha is a most beautiful deep crimson free flowering variety of easy culti- ation, that should be in every collection of winter-flowering shrubs. Dalaehiana is another useful variety that flowers almost continuously throughout the year. It is of dwarf, bushy habits of growth.