Pelicans Landing Garden Centre

08/03/2025

🌪🌬⛈ ☔Closed due to inclement weather. Sorry for any inconvenience!☔ ⛈🌬🌪

16/08/2024

Graced by rainbow good vibes this afternoon after a 'Spring is in the air' gorgeous day🐝🦜🌻🌈

Shake of the winter blues & come enjoy the diverse beauty adorning our space🌟

From new season seedlings, delectable edibles of vast variety, fabulous flowers that the bees adore, natives in floriferous abundance, architectural delights to indoor & outdoor enhancement.

There's light at the end of the winter rainbow... Spring vibes are upon us. 🌈🐝🦜🌻🌟

Woohoo!

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25/06/2024

💫🌟💃The delightful Dancing Lady 💃 🌟💫

Omcidium Twinkles aka Dancing Lady Orchid.
She truly is a star, with her profuse flowering, delicate fragrance, easy care and compact growth.💫

Honoured with the prestigious Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.

This little lady truly impresses with her abundance of miniature orchid blooms on multiple sprays, in such great numbers that they create a charming cloud of butterfly orchids above the strappy foliage. Enhanced by gentle wafts of vanilla scent during the day.💫

She performs beautifully by flowering twice a year & will bloom best & be more fragrant in brighter light. Even tolerating the tickle of direct morning sun, which will enhance her performance. 💫

Perfect for windowsills, table tops, small hanging baskets in bright light environs indoors or out.

This year we also have them on mini-tree fern mounts, so they can be hung in a bright light locations outdoor or in. 💫

The exposed roots draw nutrient from the atmosphere... cool hey!?

The Dancing Lady Orchid, Oncidium Twinkle is truly a delight & will reward with profuse flowering & ease of care. 💃💫

24/06/2024

📯👑We're So Excited!!!
... to be stocking Australian Native plant Royalty 👑

Nature's architectural masterpieces, Xanthorrhoea Johnsonii aka Grass Trees 📯📯

(I'm besotted with these ancient wonders of nature so this is a long read folks... grab a cuppa or a vino if you're curious as to why.😊)

Sustainably sourced, Expertly harvested & nurtured with love .... the Original harvester, motivated in the 1970's to save these uniquely Australian, Iconic, 'living fossils' from destruction due to farming & urban sprawl!👏👏👏

40+yrs of harvesting later, within the same family, they have it down to an art form...with impeccable survival rates... surety that their plants will endure & thrive with the correct care.

Xanthorrhoea epitomise the Australian bush: their exquisite uniqueness & individuality demonstrates years of history reflected in it's trunk. Oh the stories, wisdom & patience they could share!

They are very slow growing, 1-2cm a year!.... with some elderly specimens being amongst the oldest living plants on a worldwide scale, surviving for as long as 600 hundred years! They are certainly worthy of reverence in my opinion!🙏

It takes 10 yrs to begin to form a trunk! The 'trunk' is formed by the leaf stems that are bound by the strong water proof resin the grass tree leaves produce. The resin had many uses historically by both the indigenous & much later the colonists.... & even today as incense & a natural pigment.

Grass trees continue to impress even below the soil surface! Within their root system they share a symbiotic relationship with the mycorrhiza fungus for essential nutrient absorption, the grass trees foliage source the sun for them both.

Thus the importance of root ball care, at harvest & when replanting!
Xanthorrhoea dislike root disturbance intensely! A transplant guide is supplied to ensure correct handling.

Another remarkable characteristic of these astoundingly enduring trees is their ability to survive wildfire & their rapid response of flowering profusely soon after.

Their nectar rich spike of flowers grows 2-3cm a day, attracting a wide variety of insects, birds & mammals. One flowering stem can produce 10,000 seeds! 'We will survive!'

After pollination the flower stem forms a tough pointed spike over 3mtr high! Historically an Aboriginal favourite as a spear. In fact Grass trees... 'Yakka' provided a variety of uses for indigenous peoples including food, drink, & materials used in the manufacture of tools & weapons. The resin most diversely.

Today the magnificent Iconic Xanthorrhoea have been given another chance at survival due, originally, to the efforts & initiative of grandfather & family in the 1970's. Xanthorehoea are protected & should only be sourced via licensed harvesters... defined by the govt approved tag attached!

Grass trees have become highly prized as striking feature trees, their spectacularly individual shapes adding powerful structural enhancement to garden spaces & even pots.

So, if You're excited by the opportunity of adding an Iconic, Uniquely Australian, Living Fossil.... sustainably sourced & expertly harvested... to your garden... come on down to PLGC to view our current collection of stunning Xanthorrhoea Johnsonii... just one of the Xanthorrhoea species worthy of the title... Australian native plant Royalty👑

11/06/2024

👑🤍💖💜🧡📯Hear ye... Hear ye... the King has arrived!👑🤍💖💜🧡📯

The Iconic Protea King White & King Pink return, accompanied by Luscious Leucospermum Carnival Orange, the delightful Leucadendron Cream delight & the classic Protea Special Pink Ice 🤍💖🧡

Back by popular demand & such
beautiful quality stock! 🤍💖

Iconic additions to any gardens. These tough hardy evergreen plants will thrive in exposed positions, in poor soils and are heat and cold tolerant.

Must haves - full sun, free draining soil and low phosphorous fertilisers, as with Australian natives.

Ensure these requirements and you'll be rewarded with a superb floral display!

Their diverse flowers are truly the Star of the show💖🌟

Simply enjoy their magnificence in your garden or containers or as gorgeous long lasting, cut or dried flowers. Consequently a Florists favourite.💖

Enhance your outdoor space with one of these exquisite flowering shrubs & be rewarded by their dynamic floral beauty! Birds, Bees & insects are sure to be delighted! 🌟🌟🌟

04/06/2024

💛💚💙the spectacular Richmond Birdwing Butterfly💙💚💛
..Australia's largest sub-tropical butterfly with a wing span of up to 16cm!... is dependant on the Richmond Birdwing B/fly vine, as habitat for their larvae.

Due to threats from habitat destruction & introduced invasive w**d species they are endangered!

Many passionate people & diverse organisations are members of who are devoted to creating habitat corridors by planting this unique vine (& much more) to ensure the perpetuation of this magnificent Butterfly, Ornithoptera Richmondia.

Thank you to the fabulous native wholesale nursery for making the Richmond Birdwing butterfly vine accessible for the retail market. In stock now at PLGC.

Plant this unique vine & contribute to creating habitat for this endangered species & thus benefit in the Richmond Birdwing B/fly's beauty... & endurance!

This post was motivated by an inspiring interlude with a passionate young entomologist... if not formally qualified... as knowledgeable as!... who had me utterly enthralled by his passion for & knowledge of insects & their habitat but particularly drew my attention to the Richmond Birdwing butterfly. Thanks Alex! 🙏🦋 Stay in touch hun... I want to pick your brain further😊

**deradication

01/06/2024

🤍💚💜❤an Eclectic blend of new arrivals enhance our space this week❤💜💚🤍

Plants rock! 💜💫🤍💫❤💫💚

Perhaps not the most professional terminology🤪... though 2 words that express (maybe not to my Mum🤪) So Much🤍💚💜❤!

Their diversity of foliage, remarkable stunning blooms, growth habits & style, scent, texture, colour, form... man!.... they just keep on giving!❤💜💚🤍🌿

Such a pleasure to be immersed in!

Don't be shy to simply pop in to immerse Yourself 💚... you'll leave with a smile... & perhaps a new friend😉😁🪴

27/05/2024

🦜🦎🐝Create habit, biodiversity & ease of maintenance with a collage of native flowers, foliage & growth styles🐝🦎🦜

We're brimming with stunning natives from ground covers to trees... many bursting with buds & flowers that birds , insects & critters adore.

Enhance your garden scape with their diverse beauty & revel in the birds, bees & blue tongue lizards that come to join you.🦜🐝🦎

Incorporating native plants to your garden will create a habit for critters & consequently will become an enduring sanctuary for you & yours🦎🦜🐝

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26/04/2024

🍊🌿🍊delicious fruit... look no further than the Persimmon Tree🍊🌿🍊

These strikingly beautiful deciduous trees produce delectable fruit! The non-astringent varieties can be eaten straight of the tree whilst crunchy whilst the Astringent varieties need to fully ripen until soft to be best appreciated.

Persimmon trees also hold rich cultural signicance, regarded as a symbol of long life & endurance, representing the hope for a flourishing & sustained existence.

Often associated with luck & prosperity... it's presence in folklore a testament to the fruits esteemed status.🍊🌿🍊
.. and then there's the fruit! 'Diosporus' aka Persimmon , quite literally means 'Food of the Gods'! What more needs to be said😊... delicious... guaranteed😉🍊🌿

So if you haven't experienced this delectable fruit, we have the generosity of Ben, green thumb extraordinaire, donating some of his abundant crop to share with us & potentially You this Sat 27 Apr.

Pop on down & secure one of these delectable 'foods of the Gods'.🍊🌿🍊

It may inspire you to add one of these highly reputable trees to your food forest. Stock availability is ltd though folks but do come & revel in their fruit. 🌿🍊🌿

24/04/2024

21/04/2024

📸spot the cheeky photo bomber📸

I take an enormous amount of photos.... many don't get shared due to the demands of 'Life' ... however more & more frequently when I do go through them to select for a post... low n behold they've been ... ever so discretely...Bombed! 🤪

Nevertheless they raise a giggle... & the odd swear word😁

Can you spot the photo saboteur?

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