Archive for the 'Correas' Category

I thought I would gradually add photos of the plants that I have written about in previous blog entries. One of many favourite plants is Correa ‘Pink Pixie’. Can I use that expression ‘many favourite’? Anyway, this is a delightful flowering plant with the flower tube split and looking like a little flared skirt as [...]

I continue to find lots of treasures in the Nursery. Three more Correas. I found more Correa ‘Pink Pixie’ under the name Correa alba x pulchella. It is definitely the same plant when the flowers and leaves are compared. I should have enough to create a nice hedge. They grow to about 120-140cm tall by [...]

My beautiful Correa pulchella ‘minor’ with white flowers is covered in blooms at the moment. (“Minor” because the leaves are finer than the usual form). The plant in the ground will not flower for another month or so. Sometimes it is a bonus to have these early flowers on potted plants, especially if I need [...]

I was sorting plants for the Plant Sale today and found some precious plants. A few years ago I was given cuttings of a number of Correas I had not seen before. They seemed to get lost in the system during a time when I was not well and lost track of a lot of [...]

We had lunch at Monarto Conservation Park today. It is at least six months since our last visit. I was really pleasantly surprised to see that the heath areas looked to be in really good heart. Correa glabra var. turnbullii (used to be Correa schlechtendalii), or Rock Correa, was flowering and most shrubs were leafy [...]