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Plant	Status	Notes
Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca)	Have	'Kattang Karpet' variety, a prostrate but sterile form. Forms a low cascading mound of fine textured cladodes in dark grey-green.
Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium tomentosum)	Have	Never needs watering. In a dry rock garden facing North in full sun (Southern Hemisphere). Combined with Dianella caerulea which grows through it giving vertical accent, and has complentary bluish folige with blue flowers at the same time.
Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy')	Have	Almost perfect small tree. Lovely pink pea flowers in early spring on bare branches. New foliage is late to emerge in mid to late spring and is deep glowing burgundy, heart shaped and slowly expands in size to palm sized. Holds colour well through into summer, and has Autumn colour too. Can be badly attacked by scale insect, followed by sooty mould. Tolerant of dry soil.
Fragrant Wintersweet Tree (Chimonanthus praecox)	Have	Commences flowering on bare branches at the beginning of Winter and flowers last through most of winter. Beautiful fragrance, flowers are translucent waxy primrose yellow and pendant with red inside. Has interesting seed pods.
Chinese Fringe Tree (Chionanthus retusus)	Have	New. Tolerant of dry soil.
Rock Rose (Cistus 'Silver Pink')	Have	Frost tolerant zone 8a, likes very dry soil in full sun. About 60 cm tall by about a metre wide. Can be pruned to shape. Masses of small pale pink flowers amost covering the bush over a long flowering season in the warmer months. Produces a lot of mulch under itself.
Crimson Spot Rockrose (Cistus ladanifer)	Prev	Only lived for about two years. May have been intolerant of heavy soil or frost. Very beautiful flowers and balsam scented foliage.
Clematis Arctic Queen™	Have	New.
Clematis 'Daniel Deronda'	Have	New.
Clematis 'Ernest Markham'	Have	Moderate sized vibrant magenta flowers with rounded tepals from early Spring (September here), repeating with Autumn flush. Colour is fairly sun proof. Attractive growing with Climbing Peace rose as the colour complements the pink edges to Peace's petals. I'd like to see it growing with Daniel Deronda. Foliage is mid green and rounded.
Clematis 'Etoile de Paris'	Have	Very beautiful large violet blue flowers fading to lavender with cream anthers attractively tipped in red. Lovely climbing into Arbutus unedo, flowering mostly on the north and east sides (Southern Hemisphere).
Clematis 'Gipsy Queen'	Have	Small to moderate sized very dark violet flowers with narrow tepals beginning with good show in early spring (mid September here), then flowering lightly more or less continuously throughout warm months till second Autumn flush. Small rounded quite dark foliage. Attractive with bright pink Zepherine Drouhin climbing Bourbon rose. Very vigorous and tough.
Clematis 'Nelly Moser'	Have	Vigorous, flowers early in spring (September here), repeating later in the season. Light green long foliage and large lavender flowers with a central stripe on tepals of burgundy, fading to mauve and pink. Looks lovely with a dark red/burgundy climbing rose such as Blackboy.
Clematis 'Niobe'	Have	New. Velvety dark red/burgundy flowers, stands out beautifully on gold foliaged shrub such as Cotinus 'Golden Spirit'.
Clematis Rebecca™	Have	New.
Clematis 'Roguchi'	Have	Lovely very dark blue violet flowers shaped like a pendant lily-flowered tulip. Flowers are small but very numerous over an amazingly long continuous flowering season that doesn't end till the first frosts. Plant is fully dormant dieing back right to the ground in winter, but very early the new foliage emerges in a rapidly growing tangle of masses of shoots that continue to grow all through the warm months. Very good for growing into a tree, good climber and can get quite tall and spread wide. Looks attractive in A Russian Olive with silvery foliage. Would suit a Silver Pear or tree with gold foliage too.
Clematis 'Romantika'	Have	Amazingly dark, almost black flowers. So dark it's hard to tell if the base colour is burgundy or violet, but seems more in between (purple). Tepals are quite narrow, flower size is moderate. Foliage is fresh light green. Supposedly this one is meant to be pruned hard in spring, but I find it does better without it. Flowers later than most large flowered Clematis, for an extended time then doesn't repeat. I have this climbing into Magnolia Heaven Scent, where the small dark flowers show up well on the large soft green leaves. However would look stunning with a lilac coloured flowering shrub if the flower time could be matched (this Clematis is too late for my lilacs). Might also look lovely in a paler variegated tree such as Pagoda Dogwood.
Clematis (Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles')	Have	Evergreen. Slow to establish, yet to flower. Forms a small clump at ground level before sending up climbing shoots. In zone 8a needs winter protection, growing beneath evergreen Eucalyptus tree.
Clematis (Clematis montana 'Rubens Superba')	Have	This was sold as just C. montana Rubens, not Superba. It has struggled, perhaps through underwatering as it is planted at the feet of a very large and thirsty apple tree. Last year it died right back to near the ground and is starting again. Flowers are too similar to the apple tree blossoms to show up, so overall not a success.
Clematis (Clematis recta 'Velvet Night')	Have	This was sold as C. recta var. Purpurea, not as Velvet Night, but is similar if not the same. A foliage clematis, fully dormant and dieing to the ground in winter, new foliage burgundy toned emerging quite late in spring. Climbs poorly, needs some guidance from surrounding shrubs, grows only to a metre or a metre and a half, with numerous shoots in a clump. Flowers are white, small and very thin tepaled, but in masses, and followed by attractive seed heads. Flowers late. I have this growing under Lonicera fragrantissima, whch still has quite light gold-green foliage in Spring when the Clematis emerges, and is twiggy enough to support its growth.