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Ferner from Down Under

One of the garden ferns that we have admired since its 2011 planting is the Australian/New Zealand native, Diplazium australe. This incredible, fine-textured fern, forms a 3′ tall deciduous clump. In the wild, it can be found streamside and in moist forests, but it’s thrived for us in average to dry soils. It’s virtually unknown

A Healthy Melaleuca

We were thrilled to have a great flower show this year on the most winter hardy honey myrtle we grow, Melaleuca ‘Wetland’s Challenged Mutant’. This introduction from Desert Northwest, is either a selection of Melaleuca paludicola, or a hybrid with that species. Most of the other “hardy” melaleucas (formerly, Callistemon) died to the ground this

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