Medium shrub 6-8'x6' with dark green leaves tinged wine red on red stems. An attractive and hardy hybrid, Lcd. laureolum x Lcd. salignum are its parents. Tolerant of most well-drained soil types and conditions. Fast growing, vigorous compact plant. Excellent cut foliage, screen and windbreak.
A most beautiful small tree or large bush from rainforest margins in New South Wales. Grown commercially for cut flowers for the orange-red coloured calyces in summer. Known as "Festival Bush" in California. Prefers acid soils so will need supplemental sulphur and Iron in Californias alkaline soils. Flowers best in full sun. Great shrub for hedge or screen or speciman shrub.
Beautiful, smallish shrub, with green leaves and profuse purple- red blush in winter-spring. Must be grown in full sun for good color and grown in well-drained soils. Drought and frost tolerant (20F). Can be grown as a cut flower. Beautiful hardy landscape shrub.
Outstanding, vigorous climber or creeper/trailing plant with trifoliate green leaves and pea-shaped orange-pink-yellow flowers. Prefers well-drained soils with a mulched root system in full sun or partial shade. Foliage damaged by moderate frost but foliage will return in spring. Pruning extends the life of the plant. Excellent container plant (especially with pruning).
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