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Summer Hyacinth
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PLANT OF THE WEEK
25/01/99 - 31/01/99
Botanical Name: Galtonia candicans (Bak.)
Plant Family: LILIACEAE
Common Name: Summer Hyacinth

Location: The African section of the Rock Garden, just above the limestone section and adjacent to the Eurasian section. Also in the Conifer Cultivar Garden between the Depot and the northern entrance to the Gondwana Walk.

General Note: Pure white, slightly fragrant, pendulous, bell-shaped flowers cover the spikes on this grey-green foliaged plant from the high grassy slopes of eastern South Africa and Lesotho. A fertile, well-drained soil, with an adequate water supply during the growing season and a sunny, undisturbed position result in a good display year after year.


Also looking good this week are the Dorrigo Waratah, Alloxylon pinnatum, the Old Man Banksia, Banksia serrata, many lilies, e.g. the Tiger Lily, Lilum lancifolium , the Sun-Ray Lily of Japan, Lilium auratum, and the Incense Plant, Calomeria amaranthoides.

Dorrigo Waratah
Dorrigo Waratah
Golden Ray Lily of Japan
Golden Ray Lily of Japan
Incense Plant
Incense Plant

 

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