Print fact sheet - Climbers
Climbing plants are excellent for covering or decorating walls, fences, pergolas, arches and arbours. They are also very good screening plants in areas where trees and shrubs are too large. Don looked at a typical range of climbers available ... [... more]
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Displaying Wisteria
The blue form of the Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) is very popular among gardeners, but there are many other kinds available. Peter Valder looked at the two most widely cultivated Japanese species, W. brachybotrys and W. floribunda, and ... [... more]
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Billardiera ringens
The genus Billardiera is named in honour of the French botanist La Billardiere, and includes about twenty species of handsome climbing plants. Don looked at a member of the group called Billardiera ringens, a moderately vigorous twiner with ... [... more]
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Wonga-wonga Vine
The Wonga-wonga vine, (Pandorea pandorana), is a fast-growing Australian native climbing plant. It can be found in eastern Australia from Queensland to Tasmania growing vigorously over tall trees. It is also a spectacular garden plant. Pandorea ... [... more]
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Gymea Lily
Gymea lilies are spectacular Australian native plants with large, compact heads of nectar filled red flowers atop tall, thick stems. Most Australian natives resent being transplanted, but Gymea lilies can be dug up, moved and planted bare rooted. ... [... more]
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White Potato Creeper
This week's Plant of the Week is the white potato creeper. A member of the Solanaceae or nightshade family, it is a classic, widely used plant in Australian gardens that perhaps should be used even more. Description: A moderately vigorous, ... [... more]
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Creeping Fig - Plant of the Week
Don showed how classy creeping figs can look when used in a formal garden design. The figs were trained to fill recesses in a masonry wall, so that they formed perfect green rectangular shapes. The fig rectangles provided a wonderful backdrop for ... [... more]
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Native Wisteria
Japanese or Chinese wisterias are stunningly beautiful plants, but they do have limitations. Some gardeners don't like the fact that they lose their leaves in winter, and they don't really suit planting schemes featuring Australian natives. The ... [... more]
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Grape Vine
Don looked at two climbers that will give sunshine in winter and shade in summer, as well as fabulous autumn colour. A vigorous, self-clinging deciduous climber, which adheres firmly to slightly rough surfaces by means of disc-shaped suckers at ... [... more]
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Boston Ivy
Boston ivy is one of about ten species from North America and Asia belonging to the genus Parthenocissus. It is not actually an ivy but a member of the Vitaceae, or grape family. It's a particularly good climber for covering large walls or ... [... more]
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Orange Trumpet Creeper
There is one climber which, when it flowers, seems to attract more interest than just about any other. It's commonly known as the orange trumpet creeper or Pyrostegia venusta. Pyrostegia venusta. It is a member of the Bignonia family ... [... more]
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Mandevilla 'White Fantasy'
Don looked at an outstanding new hybrid mandevilla bred in Japan. 'White Fantasy' has gorgeous white flowers with just a touch of pink in the bud. Mandevilla 'White Fantasy' (a hybrid of Mandevilla boliviensis) A moderately vigorous climber to 4m ... [... more]
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