Ten amazing winter flowering Australian natives!

[@Kramfors1]

You two are so good! Such personalities. Always entertaining whatever subject you give us. Yesterday we saw one of your earlier episodes when Alaxandra (Middle sized Garden) was visiting, such positive vibes! Thank you for what you are up to 😃🇸🇪

[@thehorti-culturalists]

And thanks for watching!

[@grandmothergoose]

I have a big old grevilia robusta in my yard and I love it. I quite enjoyed this episode because I'm right in the middle of creating my own native garden section in my yard and you showcased some plants I've never heard of, one of which I really must try to get for my garden as it would be ideal. Would you gentlemen consider the idea of one day doing a video about Aussie native herbaceous plants? Aussie shrubs are spectacular, but most take up a lot of space and they aren't too terribly hard to find videos and information about, but there isn't so much about the smaller herbaceous plants that can fit in a pot plant or a little bare pocket of a small garden besides darling and sturt peas, strawflowers, native violet, and billy buttons, but there surely has to be more to it than that?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Great Idea! Regards Stephen

[@joanne-et6pm]

Thanks Stephen & Matt there's a big range & their all really pretty I think my fav is the pea one from WA similar to the sweet peas I'm growing Thanks again ! Happy Gardening 👍🌸🐝🦟

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Our pleasure! Regards Stephen

[@imightbejenna]

Thanks for the video.. I live 15 mons from that garden and will definitely be checking it out! I'm planting lots of natives in my garden for the local wildlife to enjoy.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@SteveDotson-e5f]

Thank you for this!I'm in NW Florida.I grow some of these zone 8.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@michelleadams1210]

Thanks so much You 2. I reckon spring has arrived in Sunraysia already. It's been low to mid 20's all week. The scent of wattle is in the air, and my Winter Joy grevillea, Emu Bush and Hardenbergia are in full bloom. The bees are loving them. I absolutely love our native flora.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed our video. Regards Stephen

[@Dedicated_to_Jesus_downunder]

Thank you and God bless you for sharing your knowledge and love of these exquisite aussie plants and trees! We live in the wimmera and have just been given permission from the landlord to grow natives in the yard (it is ugly and desolate at the moment and we would love to transform it into a beautiful space and sanctuary for the beautiful native birdlife and the humans that live corporately here - we have crested pigeons, eastern & crimson rosellas, red rumps, rainbow lorikeets, wattlebirds and the gorgeous little honeyeaters, pied currawongs and willie wagtails visiting besides some introduced species like blackbirds, sparrows and starlings) my daughter and I have absolutely no idea how to go about growing these marvelleous natives but your informative video has given us some food for thought as to what we could add to our ideas list of what we could plant to grow as creepers on things or around the birdbath. 😊 it is a very daunting task to establish a garden here when the soil is terrible and like clay- in winter if you walk on a bare patch of dirt it glues to the bottom of your shoes in big clumps and is quite a challenge to scrape back off (we joke that you could dig up bits of it and mould it into cups and pots 😂) in summer the ground dries out and cracks - the cracks can be so significant you could accidentally step into it and brake your ankle or your leg! (The movement in the ground here wrecks the houses causing significant damage)

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Good luck with your project!

[@heathers9599]

Thanks so much for this episode. I’m slowly changing my small backyard in Bendigo to a native garden.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad it was helpful! Regards Stephen

[@greenjoygardens]

I was just wondering since watching the Olympics why Australians always wear green and yellow on their uniforms. Seeing that tree it's instantly obvious.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Isn't it! Thanks for watching!

[@joycethorn2313]

Represents Wattle trees.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Chorezema!!! 🍾🎊🎉

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Fabulous isn't it!!

[@joycethorn2313]

I adore Grevillea Robusta. Planted 5 in my old garden on a rural property. Yes, they drop leaves in late spring, then grow new leaves and flowers, but you don't need to worry about raking up. Simply mow over the fallen leaves and they mulch up to nothing and feed the tree.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

True but not so good if its a 50 year old one in a small suburban garden. I might say I don't have an issue but if I were to sell one to somebody I would feel the need to warn them. Regards Stephen

[@Salmagundiii]

@@thehorti-culturalists It's curious it hasn't been hybridized with another Grevillea to make a more compact tree. Maybe it won't cross - perhaps has a different # of chromosomes or something?

[@MarcAotearoa]

Great video, I love Australian natives, your flower colours and forms are so beautiful compared to most New Zealand species (though I’m not saying I love them more than NZ plants). It looked rather damp!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

It was bucking down rain most of the day which made for a rather uncomfortable film session. It always astounds me just how different New Zealand and Australian plants are considering our proximity. Regards Stephen

[@alisonburgess345]

At my golf course we have big Banksia marginatas and they are just bustling with birds all the time. Meanwhile, the conifers next to them are deserted.. Please grow more natives people 🎉

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@jeanneclark99]

Go, natives!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@scallywags12]

Acacia trees are in Baja, Mexico. They grow in river valleys and are very thorny.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Quite different to our Australian ones and probably botanically considered a species of Vachellia now. Regards Stephen

[@roytate3889]

Here in Arizona, next to California in a sub-tropical - desert region of the saguaro, we can do a lot of the Proteas unlike the ones more in cooler coastal areas of South Africa. Our issue is clay and alkaline soil. Many Australian ones can take the extreme heat for sure. Pots solve the phosphorus and drainage issues. Hakea and Gravilleas do well if planted on a berm or hill amended with drainage and acidic elements. To some extent banksias as well. I'm going to plant a beautifull Ned Kelly gravillea that is grafted on gravillea robusta than takes the alkaline-clay soils here well. Seldom freezes and only a few hours. Love the other protea option to consider.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad to meet another obsessive! Regards Stephen

[@roytate3889]

@@thehorti-culturalists I love you guys! You are the dymamic duo of horticulture. So much fun and good humor. Would love to visit the botanical gardens of Australia and the bush. Outside of Australia I want to check out the botanical garden at the University of California at Santa Cruz in Northern California. Told it has the most impressive collection of Australian natives outside of the Big Down Under. Here in Phoenix is maybe he best world class garder for cacti, agave, and desert succulents in the world. P.S. -you two really need to pronouce agave correctly.

[@kerryjean2223]

I bought two of those Isopogen Coneflower last week,. I put them into pot's. No doubt might be more zonal denial Adelaide South Australia.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Herbaceous natives is a good idea. Need to look into it. Regards Stephen

[@Royaliize]

Great video! Does Hardenbergia bloom in the first season from seed? And does it die back in bad winters? Ty in advance.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Its won't flower in the first year from seed and will only tolerate very mild frost. Regards Stephen

[@MarcAotearoa]

A question for Stephen’s Monday shorts, my parents who live in the midland in the UK have a mature variegated maple whose leaves have started to go brown at the edges and it’s starting to lose its leaves in late July early August. The summer has been quite dry though not super hot but the spring was very wet. Can you tell what is causing this to happen?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

It could in fact be a combination as too wet in spring can kill feeder roots with too dry later meaning the tree is less capable of taking up water. Regards Stephen

[@gretamichaleski4953]

I planted a Banksia tree and Hakea tree a year ago here in California in the central valley area in Sacramento. They are so unique and beautiful. One question I have is what is the best time to prune the flower spikes on the Banksia once they are finished flowering?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

They can be pruned as soon as the flowers are finished or you can leave them to form their unique seed pods. Regards Stephen

[@gretamichaleski4953]

Thanks so much. I have become a real Australian native plant enthusiast this last year. The trees have such wonderful flowers and being evergreen is an added plus!

[@alisonburgess345]

Is Hardenbergia violacea "Happy Wanderer" the same as the species Hardenbergia violacea?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

it is a selected form that is more floriferous but still the species. Regards Stephen

[@alisonburgess345]

@@thehorti-culturalists Thanks Stephen.

[@LouiseMather-ul3jn]

Hi there, I have a raised bed that I am growing dahlias in. Unfortunately they grew so tall last year that I couldn’t reach the flowers to pick them. I wonder if I can cut them back before they reach the flowering stage or will I lose the flowers? I was thinking that if I cut them back they would grow thicker and bushier and with flowers I can actually reach. Thank you.

[@LouiseMather-ul3jn]

I should add that I live on the Adelaide plains.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

it will make them much later in the flowering season and they could still be quite tall. better to grow them in a non raised bed if possible as they will then be pickable. Regards Stephen

[@LouiseMather-ul3jn]

Thank you for your very prompt reply. Very much appreciated.