Guided Tours Guided Tours (by Donation) Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Aboriginal Heritage Tour Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 am – 11.30 am Wednesday Walks - Trees to Treasures 10 am – 12 pm Bookings and information: rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au Must see banksii Australian Rockery July

This month's tour features stunning flowers and iconic vistas. Scan the QR code below to use our Garden Explorer finder to follow the tour.

#RBGSydney #MustSeeRBG 1. Tetradenia riparia - Misty Plume Bush 4. Coffea arabica -Coffee 6. Aloe Hybrid 'LEO 1086B' - Aloe 'Eager Beaver' A member of the mint family Probably native to Ethiopia, Coffea Aloes are succulent from (Lamiaceae), native to southern and arabica accounts for about 60% of the Southern Africa, Madagascar, Jordan eastern Africa, the Misty Plume Bush world’s coffee production. Brought to and the Arabian Peninsula. There is cultivated for the showy flower Australia from Rio de Janeiro by the are over 500 species, and they display it puts on during winter. The First Fleet, it can also be seen growing hybridise easily. On the Greenway flowers are white to lilac in colour in our First Farm display. It grows into Terrace discover a range of hybrids and are borne in spikes at the end a large shrub and produces small bred in South Africa for spectacular of the branches. The flower display white flowers that only last for a flowering, drought tolerance and may differ depending on whether few days but smell like Jasmine. The bird attraction. Enjoy their bright red, the plant is male or female. The male berries appear as dark green and orange and yellow tubular flowers en flower spikes create more of a misty effect, while the female spikes change colour to dark red when they are ready for harvest. They masse. Visit our Succulent Garden to learn more and explore the are more compact, but both are great in a winter garden. grow well in coastal Sydney and set fruit that can be harvested to diversity of our Aloe collection. create your own home-grown brew. 2. ferruginea - Rose Silky Oak 7. Grevillea hybirds and cultivars 5. Aloidendron barberae - Tree Aloe Stabilising this steep bank next This striking member of the to our Australian rockery is a This is Southern Africa’s largest and family (), is collection of . There are tree Aloe and is grown for its endemic to the Atherton and Evelyn over 350 species, most endemic impressive size and shape rather tablelands of far north Queensland. It to Australia, with a small number than its flowers. This succulent is grows in rainforest between 650 – 1300 from islands to the north. They fast growing and gets to about 3m metres on basalt soils and can reach have brightly coloured, petalless before dividing into two branches. 30 metres in height. Leaves are large, flowers, comprised of male(filament As it matures it divides more deeply tri-lobed with a rusty under and anthers) and female (style and frequently and forms a half dome- surface, covered in dark brown hairs. stigma) parts, bundled together like head supported by many short The tree produces a decorative timber in a tube (perianth). This splits thick branches. The trunks widen with a grain reminiscent of oak. It is one open revealing elongated styles, each year but the leaves shrink in of only two species in the genus, the accounting for their common name size so the leaves of mature trees other is Darlingia darlingiana, growing in our Australian Rainforest of Spider Flowers. They can be trees, shrubs or groundcovers and are about half the size of those on Garden. they hybridise easily in cultivation, leading to a great diversity of young trees. hybrids and cultivars. 3. Prunus 'Yvonne Mathies' - Millenium Cherry We can’t promise they will flower 8.PLANT OF THE MONTH for the whole month but while they are flowering these three small trees Doryanthes excelsa are a beacon for photographers and bees. This variety was bred at the Gymea Lily University of Western Sydney, by This is one of the most striking of Australia’s more than Graeme Richards to create a reliable twenty thousand species of plants. A spear-like flower warm climate flowering cherry. It is spike that can grow to 6 metres tall emerges from rosettes a hybrid between the Wild Cherry, of large sword shaped leaves. At the top of the spike are Prunus avium and the Taiwanese dense clusters of trumpet shaped bright red flowers, rich in Cherry, Prunus campanulata. It was bird-attracting nectar. It grows in the central coast bioregion named for the mother of fellow of NSW including Sydney and is one of only two species in academic, garden historian and the genus. The other, Doryanthes palmeri occurs in northern nursery owner, Judyth McLeod. NSW and both species only grow in Australia.