New plants continue to bloom
On Thursday Jennifer Stackhouse had a fabulous walk around Bob and Derelie Cherry’s extensive garden at Gawler with members of her local garden group on a day out that also included a visit to Table Cape Tuliip Farm.
Bob and Derelie moved to northwest Tasmania from their nursery and garden at Kulnura near Sydney nine years ago. They bought an established property at Gawler (near Ulverstone) and Bob set to work to turn it from a collection of mature trees, overgrown shrubs and perennials into a garden. While there was so much to admire, the plant that took everyone’s eye was a hybrid yellow michelia (port wine magnolia, now classified in the Magnolia genus) developed by Bob. He said it was a hybrid of several michelias and species Magnolia including some collected from China. The yellow hybrid was growing among a stand of advanced michelias all several metres high. They are not commercially available yet as they are slow to propagate and grow but they are beautiful. As well as the yellow, there were many other colours – many pinks and whites in single and double. Many highly fragrant. All desirable. Bob and Derelie are happy to welcome visitors and have a small nursery and florist stand on their property at 138 Preston Road, Gawler.
