Gumnuts - Favourites: Prostanthera 'Poorinda Ballerina'

Favourites: Prostanthera 'Poorinda Ballerina'

5 March 2009 6:33 AM

Jeff Howes has another favourite plant that he'd like to tell you about....

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Prostantheras (mint bushes) are among my favourite plants. They grow quickly and seem to blend in with all my other plants and you tend to forget they are there, until they flower - just magic.

After my P.ovalifolia 'Rosea', P.scutellariodes and P.rotundifolia finish flowering, Prostanthera 'Poorinda Ballerina' starts to flower and will do so for the next month.

A great plant to about 1.5 metres high - it likes sun/shade and dry conditions. Certainly well worth growing.

I am not sure what its parent plants are as it does not appear to be registered as a cultivar with the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (ACRA)

Prostanthera 'Poorinda Ballerina'

Photos: Jeff Howes

If you have a plant that you particularly like and that might interest others, why not write a paragraph or two about it for inclusion here as a 'favourite'. If you have a photo to accompany it, so much the better but don't let lack of a photo put you off. If you're interested, drop me an email.

Previous Favourites

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Grevillea buxifolia: Grey Spider flower
Angophora hispida: Dwarf apple
Hypocalymma angustifolium: White myrtle
Calytrix tetragona - follow up
Calyrtix tetragona: Fringe myrtle
Pimelia physodes: Qualup Bell
Ricinocarpos pinifolius: Wedding bush
Senna artemisioides: Silver cassia
Philotheca myoporoides: Long-leaf wax flower
Epacris longiflora
Kangaroo Paw Hybrids
Alloxylon flammeum: Tree waratah
Jacksonia scoparia: Dogwood
Banksia media: Southern plains banksia
Correa 'Mannii'
Myoporum floribundum: Slender myoporum
Hibbertia diffusa: Wedge guinea flower
Callistemon 'Injune'

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