Description: Close flowers with some backgroud foliage
Photographer: Russell Wait
Photographer: Russell Wait
Eremophila 'Sturts Delight'
- File Number
- 1680
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 1656
- Registration Date
- 07/05/2022
- Application Received
- 30/03/2020
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Eremophila 'Sturts Delight'
- Origin
- Chance find possibly a natural hybrid between Eremophila foliosissima x E. spuria
- Characteristics
- Shrub 1.5m (h) x 1m (w), dense with sticky green leaves 40-70mm long by 1.5-2mm wide. Flowers: corolla 30mm long blue to lilac in spring or after new growth.
- Cultivation
- Best in loam soils, with some light or dappled shade responds well to pruning which makes it an attractive dense shrub with spectacular flowering displays. It has proven hardy in many districts.
- Publication
- Growing Eremophila, R. Wait, 2021. p174; Hort Journal Australia June 2019 Vol 12, Issue 1, Page 41
- Colour Coding
- RHS 1995 Petals: Violet Group 85A;
- Propagation
- Cuttings best in early summer
- Applicant Name
- Russell Wait, Riddells Creek, Victoria , 3431
- Uses
- Suitable for use as a feature plant
- Availability
- Available from Russell Wait who can be contacted by email: russwait35@gmail.com
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -