

'Free N Easy' has soft mauve coloured flowers on a spreading plant reaching 10cm high and 2m wide. Growing to 10cm high and 2.5m wide, perfect as a climber. ‘White Out' is a strong climbing form with snow white flowers and deep green leaves. ‘Alba’ pure white flowers on a bushy 1.5m high and wide plant with deep green foliage. ‘Meema’ isĪ robust plant that has very clean, compact foliage with a high frost tolerance. ‘Meema’ from Ozbreed, is a long lived and long flowering variety that makes a good informal native hedge as it grows 50cm tall and 2m wide. ‘Happy Wanderer’ is the most commonly grown variety of Hardenbergia, with masses of purple flowers on a 2m high and wide small bush. This variety is not as long-lived as others. 'Mini-Haha' has a dwarf, erect compact habit to 15cm with deep mauve flowers. It has been successfully grown over a small arbor as well. It is perfect for climbing up a small structure such as an obelisk, or tumbling out of a large container. It is hardy to about 20 degrees and at 10 ft. 'Bushy Blue' is an erect form with rich purple flowers, 75cm tall and wide. An Australian native, growing to about 10 Happy Wanderer Vine Lilac can handle both sun and bright shade.

Give a native controlled release fertiliser in spring. Plant in a semi protected spot to avoid frost damage as some varietiesĪre mildly susceptible. The leaves are leathery, glabrous and paler on the lower surface. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 30100 mm (1.23.9 in) long and 1050 mm (0.391.97 in) wide on a petiole about 10 mm (0.39 in) long.
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Variable habit from trailing groundcover, small shrub to climbing plan with narrow green leaves and masses of pea-shaped flowers in late winter to spring.Ĭan reach 3m across the ground, or along a fence, 2m up a trellis.įull sun to semi-shade location in free draining soil or native potting mix in pots. Hardenbergia violacea is a prostrate or climbing sub-shrub with wiry stems up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) or more long. Hardenbergia is best used as either a groundcover or fence screen, grown along horizontal wires. With the white. Colours are in traditionally in purple and lilac shades (pictured here is Hardenbergia ‘Purple Spray’) though new cultivars

Great plants for garden beds, banks and retaining walls, mass plantings, rock gardens, bush gardens and containers. Flowers form on long racemes and bear a tiny green spot
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HardenbergiaĪttracts birds and butterflies, will grow in light to medium shade but will handle full sun. Superb pea-shaped flowers make this slender climber good as a groundcover, for fences, pillars and lovely in pots (with bamboo stakes for support). It’s a tough little number in the pea family from eastern Australia that lays low all year, unnoticed, in hard-scrabble conditions in chain-link-fenced yards, then bursts. This smallish evergreen vine, also known as the Happy Wanderer, is in bloom around town, always a surprising sight for February. Hardenbergia violacea 'Happy Wanderer' or ‘False Sarsparilla’ or ‘Purple Coral Pea’ Hardenbergia violaceae, the Happy Wanderer.
