Do I need more plants...no...but..

do I want more plants...YES!


Erythrina bidwilii is a remarkable, beautiful tree with attractive flowers which the lorikeets love and a rough cork like bark. This tree is twenty years old and every spring it is a sight to behold.

The shell like open flowers.

One of my new Daylilies, Ed Brown, It has shiny, gold ruffles .

This is a new one as well. I like everything about this one. The round recurved petals, the colour and the white midribs. I think it is called Jean Taylor, if I have not mixed up the labels!

And this little one with the cheerful face is is a newcomer too. Let me think, it is Hoot, the name suits it somehow.

I could not pass up this cute daisy pot.

Boxes full of plants. Native and exotic.
Melaleuca Miles, shrub 2x2 m delicate pink brushes.

Doryanthes palmeri, Spear Lily, tall perennial plant with leaves up to 3 m, spectacular red flowers on top of stems up to 5m, attract honeyeaters.

Bulbine vagans, Golden Lily, perennial clumping Lily to 60 cm high.

Lomandra hystrix, Creek Mat Rush, clumping grass like plant 1m with arching leaves and fragrant flowers.

Doryanthes excelsa, Gymea Lily, from Greek, dory a spear and anthos a flower. Sword like leaves up to 1 m. Flower spike crowned with a cluster of bright red flowers each 1o cm across.

Leptospermum flavescens Cardwell, shrub 2.5 m, weeping foliage and small white flowers. (All Australian native plants.)

A few different Salvia suitable to a hot and humid climate.

2 Brugmansias, orange and yellow.

Fragrea berteriana, scented fragrea. Bushy shrub with highly scented flowers.

Heliconia spissa with attractive cut leaves and interesting flowers.

A Hybrid Spathiphyllum.

A new Epidendrum, Cruzifix Orchid, easy to grow, flowers for a long time.

Melastoma affine, Blue Tongue, shrub to 3 m, showy purple flowers and black edible fruits.
Oxilobium robustum, Yellow Pea Bush, shrub 3m, very showy orange yellow pea flowers.

Melaleuca fulgens, Apricot Honey Myrtle, 3x2 m showy apricot spike.

Allocasuarina torulosa, Forest Oak, tree to 25 m.

Melaleuca quiquinervia, red Paperbark, tree to 10 m, red fragrant flowers and papery bark.

Jacksonia scoparia, Dogwood, shrub to 5m yellow pea flowers on leafless stems.

Callistemon Injune pink, slightly weeping shrub to 2 m, delicate pale pink brushes.

Swainsonia galegiflia, Smooth Darling Pea, shrub to 1m bright pink pea flowers.

Alocasia brisbanensis, Cunjevoi, large leaved understorey plant to 1.5 m

A pretty Salvia in a... pretty pot.

Believe it or not:
"If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" - John Wooden

Organic tip of the week:

The goodness of Beetroot

Beta vulgaris, commonly known as beet or beetroot, is a flowering plant species in the family Chenopodiaceae. Several cultivars are valued around the world as edible root vegetables, fodder (mangel) and sugar-producing sugar beet
History Of Beetroot
Although beet remains have been excavated in the Third dynasty Saqqara pyramid at Thebes, Egypt, and four charred beet fruits were found in the Neolithic site of Aartswoud in the Netherlands, it is difficult to determine whether these are domesticated or wild forms of B. vulgaris. Zohary and Hopf state the earliest written mention of the beet comes from 8th century BC Mesopotamia; the Greek Peripatetic Theophrastus later describes the beet as similar to the radish. Beet historians have long argued that the term “Bonbon de Naturel” or “Natures Candy” came into the popular vernacular during this time period.
Beetroot Nutrition Info
An average size cup of beetroot would contain approximately 31 food calories; 8.5g of carbohydrate, 1.5g of dietary fiber, phosphorous, potassium and 1.5g of protein. Cooked beetroot is a great source of folate that can protect you against high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Beetroot Health Benefits
Beetroot is good for the health of the heart as it contains soluble fibre with can help to reduce high blood cholesterol levels. It also contains the phytochemicals carotenoids and flavonoids which help prevent LDL ‘ bad’ cholesterol from being oxidised and deposited in the arteries. Beetroot is virtually fat free and low in calories. It has an extremely low GL which means it’s converted into sugars very slowly which helps to keep blood sugar levels stable. Beetroot has for many years been used as a treatment for cancer in Europe. Specific anti-carcinogens are bound to the red colouring matter which supposedly helps fight against cancer and beetroot also increases the uptake of oxygen by as much as 400 percent.

Storing Beetroot
Beetroot can be stored in the refirgerator or on a cool, dark shelf. It'll normally keep for a few weeks when it's young and fresh.
Beetroot Trivia
The colour of red beetroot is due to a variety of betalain pigments, unlike most other red plants, such as red cabbage, which contain anthocyanin pigments. The composition of different betalain pigments can vary, giving breeds of beetroot which are yellow or other colors in addition to the familiar deep red. Betacyanin in beetroot may cause red urine and feces in some people who are unable to break it down. This is called beeturia. (From fresh organic produce)

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