SAVANNA BLUE ™ Lomandra filiformis 'LMF500'

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General Description: A compact, highly ornamental, blue form of the tough Lomandra filiformis. It’s striking blue foliage creates superb colour and texture contrast, throughout the garden. It grows to approximately 30cm tall x 30cm wide.

Position: Savanna Blue tolerates full sun or part shade and will tolerate heavy frosts and drought conditions. It performs well in heavy clay to free draining soils.

Mulch type: It lives well in all mulch types, but for other reasons such as weed control, and better drought benefits, we recommend mulch that is comprised of hardwood chips or other chunky wood material with no more than 5% fines by volume (preferably zero fines).

Care: Water as required to keep the plant healthy for the first 8 to 13 weeks. After this irrigation is optional (not required) for the cooler areas of NSW, but for hotter dryer areas such as Western Sydney, and inland areas, occasional watering in drought periods maybe
required to improve the appearance of the plant. Savanna Blue is very low maintenace, it rarely, if ever will need trimming which makes it ideal for any situation. Fertiliser is rarely required, but in ornamental gardens if a darker green colour is desired, fertilise with any good balanced 8 to 9 month slow release fertiliser, preferably in Spring or Autumn.

Uses: Savanna Blue’s striking blue foliage creates superb colour and texture contrast throughout the garden. It is ideal for mass planting in garden beds and borders. Planted on mass it provides an excellent ground cover. Its blue foliage contrasts nicely against the green, yellow and red tones of the other foliage first plants. An ideal plant for smaller modern gardens. Once established this plant should require low to no irrigation.

Planting Rates

Roadsides: Viro-Tubes 50mm x 50mm x 90mm (Volume 130ml): After consultation with roads departments, we recommend planting Breeze at 9 Viro-Tubes per square metre in urban areas, and for rural roads, 6 Viro-Tubes per square metre. 85mmx 85mm x 100mm (410ml volume) square pots and 140mm diameter round pots (140mm deep) and (1.4lt volume): After consultation with roads departments, we recommend planting Breeze at 6 pots per square metre in urban areas, and for rural roads, 4 pots per square metre.

Garden Rates: Mass planting, 6 to 9 per square metre for full coverage. For specimen planting, plant 1 or 2 per square metre. (These low rates are for where manual weed control is possible).

Fungicides and other treatments: Savanna Blue has yet to be observed requiring any treatments.

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