Libertia ixioides is a pretty addition to the range. Like most other Libertias it has three-petaled white flowers but its leaves are a dark green with a very narrow red margin and red bases which seem to become more noticeable with time. The midrib is slightly golden, but not as much so as in L. perigrinans
Gelsemium sempervirens is flowering at the moment (under cover), and it’s common name of ‘False Jasmine’ tells you a lot about it. The flowers are deep yellow trumpets with a fragrance of primroses. It is twining climber and is frost hardy, but it will not tolerate real cold.
Leymus magellanicus (Elymus magellanicus) is an electric blue grass with leaves about ¼ “ wide and growing to 75cm (yes I know, but are you fully metricated ?). It is clump forming rather than spreading like many of its family – which includes Couch grass! Potted now they will make striking plants very soon. Likewise Calamagrostis Overdam which is attractively variegated as well as producing pretty flower spikes. Calamagrostis brachytricha has plain green leaves but the prettiest of flowers
Imperata Red Baron are emerging very strongly and should be ready by early May. It is an oddity of this plant that all the roots seem to disappear overwinter and it has to regrow a fresh batch in the spring. There is nothing quite as red as Imperata and it is a good seller through summer and into the autumn, particularly as a patio plant.
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