Episode: Six
Date: 23rd May 2009
Story: Hottest New Release and Easy Care Plants
Presenter: Neville Passmore

Splurge at your local garden centre as Neville unearths this season?s hottest new release plants, and checks out the latest easy care plants quickly sweeping the nation.

Featured Plants

Westringia ground cover

• Has pretty white flowers, and remains green throughout the year.
• Grows to 30-40cm in height.
• Spreads across the ground creating a lovely cover.
• Grows well across Australia.
• Can be used as a fantastic contrast plant in any garden.

Yareena

• Yareena is a longer lived Myoporum parvifolium with crisp clean foliage and a tidy compact habit.
• A fantastic evergreen Australian native ground cover that keeps looking good without the need for regular pruning. Yareena produces a profusion of white tubular flowers in summer which is a real highlight.
• Yareena is excellent for out competing weeds and providing a densely foliaged ground cover. Great for covering embankments and being used in commercial landscapes, home gardens and rockeries.
• Yareena is best suited to a full sun or slightly shaded position. Prefers a moist well drained soil but will tolerate periods of dry.
• A good choice for coastal gardens. Very drought tolerant and frost tolerant.
• Plant in a well mulched garden and prune after flowering if required. Yareena will also tolerate hard pruning if required.

Vintage Red

• The Vintage Red is a decorative ornamental Australian native tree with stunning red foliage, the first-ever for a Eucalyptus.
• This unique foliage can change from bright red to purple and grey, depending on the direction of the sunlight and age of the foliage.
• This tree will grow to around 10-20 metres in height, and 5-10 metres in width, depending on the environmental conditions.
• The Vintage Red can still be used for home gardens, by pruning it back by 1/3 every 12 months once it reaches 2-4 metres in height.
• The tree thrives in well drained soils and in most climatic conditions.
• Vintage Red is able to tolerate part-shade, however it is best suited to an open sunny position.

Queen Mum

• Queen Mum, an outstanding new form of Agapanthus orientalis.
• Featuring extra large dual coloured white and blue flower heads.
• Clumping, glossy green, strap like foliage, with multiple ball shape flower clusters in summer reaching up to 1.5m tall. It has super drought tolerance.

• Ideal for planting in garden beds, borders, along driveways, and patio pots and planter boxes. Suitable for use as a cut flower due to the large flower head size.
• For best flowering grow in an open sunny position, will also tolerate shady positions.
• Very disease, frost, heat and humidity tolerant. Remove spent flower heads as required and dispose of them correctly if near native bushland. Away from bushland this is not an issue.

Luscious

• Luscious is a vastly improved form of the Tristaniopsis which features foliage almost double the size of the original with a gorgeous, lush, shinny appearance topped off with copper new growth.
• Luscious is highly suited for street planting, garden features, or for an elegant shade tree.
• Luscious thrives in a range of conditions. It will tolerate frosts and drought but will do best in a warm moist position.
• Luscious will tolerate a wide range of soils, from well drained rocky soils to heavy clay loams, provided ample water is available.
• Luscious will grow to 7-12m tall and will grow in full sun to part shade. Its flowers are yellow with a sweet perfume.
• The trunk also is a great feature as the bark has a striking port colour that peels back revealing a mottled cream stem (see image at top right).
• The middle picture on the right above shows the copper re-growth that appears.

Velvet Kangaroo Paws

• Last year Ozbreed released their new velvet range of Kangaroo paws.
• This species produces big, bold and beautiful flowers.
• The foliage is cleaner, more disease tolerant and much more resistant to black spot.
• The Velvet Kangaroo Paw is a medium-sized plant.
• The Velvet Kangaroo Paw makes planting more rewarding and will reinstate your confidence in this species.

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