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Beaufortia elegans- 50x Seeds
A highly adaptable and hardy ornamental foliage plant featuring either purple, pink, white, cream or red/orange flowers. Plant singly for contrast as a background plant in wider verges, nature strips and streetscapes or grouped as an informal hedge or barrier. Suitable for parks, reserves, wider roadside plantings.
An erect or medium spreading shrub from 1 to 2 metres high with concave, rounded foliage about 5 mm in diameter. The bottlebrush-shaped flowers appear in late winter and spring. This species is a very attractive garden plant.
It is a dense, usually rounded shrub with small leaves and which bears bright orange flowers in bottlebrush-like spikes near the ends
Prefers well-drained soils and is drought tolerant.
Beaufortia seeds are very fine. As a general rule. fine seed should be sown on the surface of a porous seed starting mix and not buried. Cover with a very light sprinkling of soil.
Although most Australian native/ endemic seed can be sown throughout the seasons across Australia it is advisable to sow in Spring or Summer in colder regions. The optimum temperate to ensure the best possible germination rate for sowing many Australian native/ endemic species is around 18-22°C.
See above.The seed will lodge in the pores of your seed starting mix once misted with water.
Spring & AutumnPlace in a warm sunny position and keep moist to avoid drying out.
Seeds of many native/endemic species require specific conditions that mimic their natural habitat or specially formulated seed treatments, to break dormancy.
Do not be to quick to discard pots that haven't yet shown signs of seed germination. Seeds will often lay dormant until conditions are optimal and will produce amazing results, long after they have been forgotten.
Pre-treatment of smoke is recommended for this species.Research shows that many members of this species are responsive to pre-treatment of smoke, which mimocs an Australian bushfire. Although germination will may occur without smoke treatment it has proved be beneficial in reducing the number of days to germination and increasing germination rates of this species.Smoke treatments are simple and can be undertaken by applying to the surface after sowing.
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