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Milky Beauty-Heads Indigenous Plants for Ballarat Gardens Indigenous Plants for Ballarat Gardens Photograph: Roger Thomas Milky Beauty-heads Calocephalus lacteus FAST FACTS A spreading groundcover approximately Planting : Milky Beauty-heads are quite Groundcover 20 cm high and up to 70 cm wide, Milky tough and will grow really well in the garden Family: Asteraceae Beauty-heads (Calocephalus lacteus ) is an if planted in a hole not much larger than the Daisy Australian native from the Ballarat area. pot within a few days of purchase. Size: 20cm H x 20cm W Location : Milky Beauty-heads like a sunny Give it a good ½ bucket of water as soon Position: Sunny location – perhaps in a narrow bed beside as you plant it and it should be fine after Soil: Well drained the driveway, in a rockery or softening the that. Once settled in, it needs very little Flowers: Spring – Autumn edge of paving. water other than natural rainfall. Fruits: Inconspicuous Care: Prune Leaves : The small soft silver-grey leaves Care : When you think the flowers look too 1 2 make a wonderful contrast with other old and tired, just trim the top ⁄2 to ⁄3 off the plants and add a bright touch to the plant with garden shears. The plant will garden all year round. thicken up and spring back into shape in no time, and do a good job of suppressing Flowers : Although inconspicuous, the weeds in your garden bed. many flowers occur in clusters at the end of each stem. They are the same colour as Seed : When pruning, you might like to the leaves but add a nice pompom texture leave some of the flower stems uncut until to the plant for many months over spring, they form papery pale grey seeds. Either let summer and into autumn. The flowers and them blow away in the breeze or collect foliage stay looking good for many months. some to grow into new plants. For further information contact Environmental and Conservation Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Federation University Australia..
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