Flowering Shrubs and Trees for Gardens in Southern Africa |
Contents
THE CONDITION OF THE SOIL | 6 |
PROPAGATION AND PLANTING | 11 |
GENERAL CARE | 20 |
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15 feet areas attractive AZALEAS beautiful berries BOTTLEBRUSH BOUGAINVILLEA branches bright bush Cape Ceratostigma CESTRUM CHINESE HIBISCUS climate climber clusters colour compost COTONEASTER CREEPER dainty dark green deciduous Durban Botanical Gardens early spring early summer easy to grow eight feet ESCALLONIA evergreen EVERGREEN SHRUB feet in height flowers in early flowers in spring flowers throughout foliage frost-free garden grandiflora grown from seed growth half inches hardy to frost hedge HIBISCUS hybrids HYDRANGEAS inches in length inches long Johannesburg leaflets Leptospermum scoparium LOW-GROWING MAGNOLIA Mauve flowers Melaleuca nesophila MOCK-ORANGE moist moisture orange oval petals Pink flowers planted Podalyria Podranea propagated Protea Red flowers requires rockery roots rounded scarlet shade shape showy shrub shrubs and trees six feet South Africa species specimens sprays spread stamens stems Strelitzia reginae summer and autumn sunny position tender to frost three inches tiny transplanted trumpet varieties vase warm waxy white flowers Yellow flowers