SPECIES: Cordyline australis

ORIGIN: New Zealand

PROTECTION STATUS: (PBR) Provisional Plant Breeders Rights

USES: A fantastic modern addition to any garden or landscape, and creates a stylish decorative pot plant. Great Colour Screen or Architectural Statement.

CHARACTERISTICS: Rare clumping multistemed Cordyline retains it’s deep, glossy Cabernett coloured leaves right to the very base of the plant.

BLOOM: Creamy white flowers in summer.

FOLIAGE: Glossy deep Cabernett foliage.

HABIT:Compact due to its clumping habit with upright semi weeping leaves to 1.5m long. Leaves do not lay on the ground like Cordyline Red Fountain.

HARDINESS: Frost Tolerant, Humidity Tolerant. Handles wet and dry conditions. Has a very versatile climatic range grows successfully from Melbourne up to Darwin over to Perth.

CULTURE: Prefers to be free draining in a pot or in ground.

POSITION: Prefers Full Sun to semi shade (well lit patio)

CARE: Fertilise annually with a long term slow release fertiliser.

WATER: Very low water requirement once established in ground. If in a pot keep moist and water when required.

PRODUCT: Ophiopogan Mini & Maxi Strip n Lay™

ORIGIN: Developed by Fortune-8

PROTECTION STATUS: Australian Patent Pending, Australian Registered Design.

USES: The mondo Strip n Lay™ is designed to provide professional landscapers and gardeners with an instant planting system for use between pavers. At 50mm high X 50mm wide X 300mm long these handy plant strips are the perfect dimensions for planting between standard pavers. With no messy plant splitting or transplant setback.

CHARACTERISTICS: The Strip n Lay™ comes in a handy compact rigid plastic tray with 8 individual strips totalling 2.2 lineal metres of mondo grass (Mini or Maxi).

SPECIES: Syzygium australe Fortune Teller®  

ORIGIN: Sunshine Coast Australia

PROTECTION STATUS: (PBR) Plant Breeders Rights, US Plant Patent PP18335

USES: Fortune Teller® is an Australian native that makes wonderful hedges, screens, windbreaks and specimen trees, is ideal as a patio plant, and makes perfect topiary art.

CHARACTERISTICS: Fortune Teller® has small compact leaves; the transformation of colours from crimsons to jades to gold’s, lemons and limes makes Fortune Teller® a true HYPERCOLOURED plant that is ever changing with our seasons.

FOLIAGE: In the colder months Fortune Tellers® flushes are brilliant and vibrant, in many hues of crimson, copper, fiery reds and oranges. In the warmer months Fortune Teller® is aureovariegatus which means it has gold-green variegated leaves. The gold variegation lends itself to quick growth as opposed to white variegation which is usually sensitive to the sun.

FLOWER: Fortune Teller® has fluffy cream coloured flowers in spring followed by crimson bird attracting, edible Lillypilly fruits, and perfect for Jams.
HABIT: Upright growing habit, with great straight leader stems. New leaves are upright in appearance. Grows to 3m height and 2m wide.

HARDINESS: Frost tolerant, humidity tolerant, Fortune Teller grows in the cold climate of Melbourne as well as the warmth and humidity in the tropics of Darwin.

CULTURE: In a pot use a high quality light potting mix. In ground Fortune Teller® prefers a moist well drained soil that is heavily mulched.

POSITION: Prefers full sun to part shade (well lit patio).

CARE: An application of top dress3-4 month slow releasefertiliser and rotating the pot towards the light as the seasons change is ideal. Trim occasionally to enhance shape and promote new fresh growth.

WATER: Moderately low water requirement once fully established in ground and mulched. If in a pot keep moist and water when required. Placing a saucer under the pot is beneficial in maintaining consistent watering conditions.