Blue and Purple Flowers
It's alright feeling a little blue this spring, gardens are covered in blue and purple this time of the year and it's great. Shades of blue and purple flowers are bursting to life smothering shrubs and covering the ground. Probably the number one ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Wild tobacco bush (Solanum mauritianum)
Straggly evergreen shrub or small tree to about 4m high. Large grey-green leaves, purple flowers followed by clusters of large (to 2cm) berries ripening from green to yellow. All parts of the plant are covered in velvety hairs. Crushed leaves ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Azalea Sports
Burke's Backyard receives letters about confusing flowering plants that have two different coloured flowers on the one bush. For example an azalea may have magenta purple flowers with one branch of whitish flowers with a magenta purple edge. The ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Tibouchina
Tibouchinas are native to south-east Brazil, where people use the massed purple blooms to decorate churches at Easter time. Here in Australia tibouchinas also make quite a statement in autumn, with their riot of purple flowers. Don looked at ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Purple verbena (Verbena rigida)
Purple verbena is a low perennial herb, spreading from underground runners. Leaves are toothed, opposite, and bristly to the touch from a covering of short stiff hairs. Bright purple flowers are small, in tight terminal clusters. Purpletop is a ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Lavandula
Lavender is a small perennial, evergreen shrub growing from about 30-100cm high. It has gray-green leaves of linear shape and spike-like purple flowers on top of long stalks. There are also pink and white varieties. Lavender comprises about 20 ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
