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Summer planting
Contrary to popular opinion, summer planting is fine as long as adequate water is provided throughout any prolonged dry periods. This allows you to take advantage of increased summer growth.
Carmichaelia muritai
Height: 6m;  Spread: 2m
Clifford's Bay broom (Tree)
Leafless Broom. Upright growing with dense bronzed stems and white/violet flowers. Extremely rare in the wild growing on deeply eroded coastal cliffs on coarse, free draining gravel and loess, colluvial fans below cliffs.
» Click here for our Carmichaelia article published in The Fringe, July 2015 ...
» For a landscaping perspective on Carmichaelia muritai, see this article by O2 Landscapes...
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Flowers January, Wellington
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