13 Jul 2021 Featuring the Plants of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT
12. On your left is Grevillea lanigera with grey- green foliage and pink and cream flowers on a A publication of the low bush (photo below left). This plant, commonly Friends of the Australian known as Woolly Grevillea, is endemic to Victoria National Botanic Gardens and New South Wales. 30 Jun - 13 Jul 2021 Featuring the plants of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT. Written and illustrated by ANBG Friends Rosalind and Benjamin Walcott Today we will walk from the Visitor Centre, up the hill behind the café, then across on the 13. Also on your left is Banksia spinulosa Main Path to the Rock Garden ‘Birthday Candles’, a dense bright green bush with attractive needle foliage and short yellow cones with rusty red styles (photo above right). ‘Birthday Candles’ is a dwarf cultivar of Banksia spinulosa var. spinulosa developed by Bill Molyneux of Austraflora Nurseries in Montrose, Victoria. 14. On your right is Guichenotia ledifolia, a small shrub with grey green foliage covered in drooping, dusty pink 5-petalled flowers with maroon centres (photo below left). This plant is native to southwestern Western Australia. 1. After you leave the Visitor Centre on your right is Grevillea ‘Scarlet King’, an attractive cultivar with dark red toothbrush flowers, contrasting with white stems and grey-green divided foliage (photo above). 15. On your left is Eucalyptus macrocarpa, or Mottlecah, with magnificent silver- grey sword like 2. Also on your right is Grevillea ‘Peaches and foliage (photo above right). This sprawling mallee Cream’, with deeply-divided green leaves and is native to southwestern Western Australia.
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