![]() They grow in a wide variety of habitats and conditions and can be used in many ways in the garden, hedges, groundcovers, screens and shrubs. Eremophilas, like most garden plants, appreciate judicious watering, pruning and fertilising to encourage them to put on their best display in the garden. They can also be used as larger screening plants to boost the bird and insect life in your garden.Įremophilas are useful plants in garden design. Both the blue flowering, grey leaved Eremophila hygrophana (photo above right) and red flowered, green leaved Eremophila maculata brevifolia (photo above left and middle) were clipped very successfully into low hedges and were mobbed by feasting honeyeaters. In the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden near Port Augusta there are some small display gardens which feature eremophila hedges. Most have come from sources close to Canberra, Yarralumla native plants sale, Stocks Native Nursery, Heritage Nursery and Australian Native Plants Society Canberra sale, ANPS Market Day, Cool Country Natives, but some from South Australian Plants Society sale, and nurseries such as Belair, Port Augusta, Maffra, Kuranga, Goldfields and Sunvalley.Įremophilas make useful hedges. I have purchased eremophilas from more than twenty different sources over the years, as well as receiving many as gifts from propagating friends. Long periods of flower, particularly in the winter in Canberra and other cooler regions, can keep both insects and birds alive. ‘Approximately 75% of eremophilas are insect pollinated (entomophilous), with the remainder being bird pollinated (ornithophilous), or adapted for pollination by either.’ (Colin Jennings, Newsletter of the Australian Plants Society (South Australia), August 2001). This is important for both birds and insects. ![]() In 2016 in our garden 27 different varieties of eremophila flowered for more than half the year and two, Eremophila maculata brevifolia and Eremophila maculata ‘Aurea’ flowered every week of the year, even during Canberra’s winter. This is one of their best characteristics. From the left: Eremophila maculata brevifolia hedge (Arid Lands BG) and flower and Eremophila maculata ‘Aurea’Įremophilas bloom for a long time.
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