(Download) Hardy White Flowering Shrubs Australia

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Hardy white flowering shrubs australia. Mostly very hardy and easily cultivated these plants like moist well drained soil and a position in sun or part shade. Groupings of white agapanthus offer giant starbursts of white blooms. Agapanthus or aggies as they are affectionately known are a staple of gardens across australia. Plant where you can enjoy the fragrance or as part of a shrub border. An alternate common name is little christmas flower. As a member of the euphorbia genus it is related to that christmas favorite the poinsettia e. They come in white and blues small to large with their long lasting flowers resembling fireworks agapanthus strappy green leaves make them an attractive understory planting in the garden all year round.

Plant them in areas of full sun and choose white flowering cultivars such as snowgoose snowball and snowstorm for more abundant and longer lasting flowers. Mix and match them however you prefer but for more formal gardens roses peonies and gardenias can be the stars. Hoar frost is far more common in cooler zones in australia and is recognizable by the appearance of thick white ice crystals developing on top of the plants surface. They ll tolerate some shade. Country or cottage gardens shine with butterfly bushes and containers hanging baskets or landscape plantings of trailing flowers such as bacopa and fan flower. The flannel flower is one of the most recognisable australian native flowers with masses of attractive white flowers in spring that have a flannel like texture and grey green foliage. Viburnums are some of the toughest shrubs out there and these spring bloomers have pretty white to pinkish white blooms with a distinctively spicy scent and attractive reddish fall foliage.

It has attractively divided foliage. Give this dwarf hydrangea four to six hours of full sun each day and it will bloom its head off every year. Better autumnal colouring will be achieved if planted in full sun. The cone shaped flowers are white when they open but they age to bright red pink. Potentilla is one of the most common and easiest shrubs to grow. Hardy down to 40 degrees f flare is a must when it comes to dwarf flowering shrubs for small gardens. Feed plants with a complete fertiliser in autumn and spring and always remove finished flower heads.

A very dense and compact dwarf form of baeckea virgata it is a very attractive little shrub. Why we love it. Lasts up to 4 years and is self seeding. To half a metre high.