Episode: Six
Date: October 4th
Story: Rock Gardens
Presenter: Nigel Ruck

With the hot months fast approaching, Nigel has a great way to add colour and life to your summer garden. He shares hot tips on how to fill your garden with delightful perfume flowers and has the best drought hardy plants that can stand the heat.

Featured plants- Ozbreed
Tanika

• Attractive, deep green, versatile plant with attractive yellow flowers in Spring.
• Grows well in full sun and moderate to heavy shaded positions.
• Tolerates windy and salt laden positions.
• Fertiliser is rarely required.
• Remains evergreen with very little care. Nigel’s 7 year old Tanika has never been trimmed and irrigated, and has only been fertilised twice in 7 years, remaining evergreen for the whole time.

Little Jess Dianella

• Stylish purple flowers and glossy green foliage
• Dwarf, compact, very hardy and has a low water requirement.
• Tolerates a wide range of soils and climatic requirements. Suited to full sun, as well as shady positions.
• Great for mass planting, Japanese style gardens, accent plant, foliage or grassy gardens.
• Nigel’s 6 year old plant has had no maintenance or irrigation and has looked great for the entire time

Katrinus

• Suited to most soil types
• Weeping fine green leaf
• Ideal for mass planting
• Extremely drought tolerant
• Often been used in harsh roadside conditions with excellent results

Wingarra Lomandra

• Looks like grass, but needs no trimming
• Suitable for most Australian climate zones
• Compact, clumping, ornamental, blue foliage plant. Similar in habit to a tussock grass, but rarely needs trimming.
• Use for mass planting. foliage or grassy garden, accent or border plant.
• Tolerates a wide range of climatic conditions. Full sun to part shade. Very hardy, excellent drought and frost tolerance.
• The almost no care grassy plant

Lomandra Nyalla

• Better for the environment as no more grass trees are dug up and it is quicker to establish
• An improved semi-compact fine leaf blue grey form of the popular Lomandra longifolia. Nyalla is 20% larger and is more upright than the popular Tanika.
• It grows to 750mm high with a spread of 750mm. It has an attractive yellow flower head early in Spring.
• Grows well in full sun and moderate shaded positions. Tolerates windy and salt laden positions. Lives off natural rainfall in most populated areas of Australia.
• Ideal for specimen planting or mass planting in gardens, roadsides, golf courses, factories, offices and most types of residential and commercial planting.
• Ideal for patio pot plants and planter boxes. A great understory plant.
• Nyalla's foliage is great when used in vases as a foliage filler for cut flowers.