Millie shares her tips for growing colourful flowers in the tough, dry conditions under gum trees. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe
There are among 900 species of gum trees and cultivars, you don’t have to live on a large property to grow one, but they aren’t always the easiest trees to grow plants underneath.
They compete for water and nutrients and some release chemical inhibitors that make it hard to other plants to thrive nearby.
But there are some plants that can coexist – and the best place to find them is to look at the species that have evolved in Eucalypt woodlands.
Millie visits one of Victoria’s best native gardens - Karwarra Australian Native Botanic Gardens, in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges - to check out some of the inspired woodland plantings.
Featured plants: 🪴 Argyle Apple (Eucalyptus cinerea) Crowea (Crowea exalata x saligna ‘Compact’) Bendigo Wax-Flower (Philotheca verrucosa) Wedge-Leafed Pomaderris (Pomaderris obcordata ‘Mallee Princess’) Mat-Rush (Lomandra cv.) Forest Phebalium (Phebalium squamulosum) Holly Flame Pea ( Chorizema ilicifolium) Thyme Pink-Bells (Tetratheca thymifolia)
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