http://drought-tolerant-plants.com/eremophila-calorhabdos/ Gardening Tough, Drought Tolerant Plants Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://drought-tolerant-plants.com/eremophila-calorhabdos/#comment-496 admin Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:05:46 +0000 http://drought-tolerant-plants.com/?p=355#comment-496 Hi Peter & Di, The secret to getting Eremophila Calorhabdos to bush out is in the pruning. I've also found they tend to grow better in a lighter soil. I've got two growing in raised beds where the soil was clay but I used a cultivator to mix in gypsum and lots of well rotted compost. I've also got some others growing in a heavier loam over clay but in the lighter soil they tend to grow a lot faster and look a little healthier. I use this method for growing cuttings http://drought-tolerant-plants.com/propagating-plants/ Best of luck, let me know how you go. Hi Peter & Di, The secret to getting Eremophila Calorhabdos to bush out is in the pruning. I’ve also found they tend to grow better in a lighter soil. I’ve got two growing in raised beds where the soil was clay but I used a cultivator to mix in gypsum and lots of well rotted compost. I’ve also got some others growing in a heavier loam over clay but in the lighter soil they tend to grow a lot faster and look a little healthier. I use this method for growing cuttings http://drought-tolerant-plants.com/propagating-plants/ Best of luck, let me know how you go.

]]> http://drought-tolerant-plants.com/eremophila-calorhabdos/#comment-494 Peter and Di Roots Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:16:15 +0000 http://drought-tolerant-plants.com/?p=355#comment-494 I'm impressed with how bushy you've got these to be. We had some in for a couple of years and they each have only a half dozen stems at most, one to two metres tall. We love how the stems bob down when the nectar-feeding birds visit. They are pretty tough plants: we're on heavy clay in the Perth hills. We added some soil conditioner when we planted these, along with Eremophila 'Kalbarri Carpet', and although we've lost several of each the majority are doing just fine. We hand water every couple of weeks in summer, is all. Good to read that they're readily reproduced from cuttings: I'll have to give that a go when the weather warms up again. Any tricks? I’m impressed with how bushy you’ve got these to be. We had some in for a couple of years and they each have only a half dozen stems at most, one to two metres tall. We love how the stems bob down when the nectar-feeding birds visit.
They are pretty tough plants: we’re on heavy clay in the Perth hills. We added some soil conditioner when we planted these, along with Eremophila ‘Kalbarri Carpet’, and although we’ve lost several of each the majority are doing just fine. We hand water every couple of weeks in summer, is all.
Good to read that they’re readily reproduced from cuttings: I’ll have to give that a go when the weather warms up again. Any tricks?

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