Last week I featured the Beaufortia elegans, this week I am featuring the Beaufortia purpurea. Genus: Beaufortia Species: purpurea Common Name: N/A Flower Colour: Red Foliage Colour: Green Growth Habit: Shrub 1m Flowering: Spring to Summer Though the flower colour is listed as ‘red’ it would be more true to call it a ‘red-purple’ colour, [...] Click to read more »

This month at AussieGreenThumb.com I am featuring the Australian Native Plant ‘Beaufortia’. Last week I featured the Beaufortia aestiva, this week I am featuring the Beaufortia elegans. Genus: Beaufortia Species: elegans Common Name: N/A Flower Colour: Purple Foliage Colour: Green Growth Habit: Shrub 1m Flowering: Spring to Autumn The Beaufortia elegans actually comes in a [...] Click to read more »

Welcome to August! The plant of the month for August is the Australian Native Plant  ‘Beaufortia’. This is another genus, like the Melaleuca, which is often confused with plants from the Callistemon genus, or more commonly called Bottlebrush. The reason for this confusion is that a number of plants from the Beaufortia genus are ALSO [...] Click to read more »

Here is the last Eucalyptus to be featured this month, the Eucalyptus preissiana. Last week I featured the Eucalyptus torquata. Genus: Eucalyptus Species: preissiana Common Name: Bell fruited mallee Flower Colour: Yellow Foliage Colour: Green Growth Habit: Shrub 3m+ Flowering: Spring The Eucalyptus preissiana is a wonderful smaller variety of Eucalyptus. It doesn’t generally grow [...] Click to read more »

The Plant of the Month for July is the Eucalyptus. Last week I featured the Eucalyptus erythrocorys, this week I am featuring the Eucalyptus torquata. Genus: Eucalyptus Species: torquata Common Name: Coral Gum Flower Colour: Pink Foliage Colour: Green Growth Habit: Small Tree Flowering: Spring As is often the case the reason why I am [...] Click to read more »

The plant of the month for July is the famous Eucalyptus. Last week I featured the Eucalyptus rhodantha, this week I am featuring the Eucalyptus erythrocorys. Genus: Eucalyptus Species: erythrocorys Common Name: Illyarrie Flower Colour: Yellow Foliage Colour: Green Growth Habit: Small Tree Flowering: Summer to Autumn I chose to review this species because of [...] Click to read more »

Welcome to July! The plant of the month for July is the famous Eucalyptus. I have heard it said that every true Australian garden should have a Eucalyptus. While I don’t actually subscribe to this train of thought, there is something very ‘Australian’ about growing a Eucalyptus tree. The first variety that I am going [...] Click to read more »