Botanical Name
Crowea ‘Festival’
Common Name
Festival Crowea
Description
Festival is a delightful compact native shrub renowned for its profuse pink star-shaped flowers and neat growth habit that creates beautiful displays in Australian gardens. This attractive cultivar produces masses of small, five-petaled pink flowers that bloom almost year-round, attracting native bees and butterflies while providing continuous color throughout the seasons. The small, narrow leaves create attractive fine-textured evergreen foliage that maintains dense, compact growth habits perfect for small spaces. Hardy and adaptable once established, it thrives in well-drained soils and partial shade to filtered light positions with protection from harsh afternoon sun. Perfect for containers, borders, and areas where compact native shrubs with reliable flowering create charming landscape displays.
Plant Category
Small Shrubs
Size (H x W)
Height: 50cm-1 meter, Spread: 50cm-1 meter
Crowea cultivars are developed from species naturally occurring in eastern Australia, thriving in well-drained soils with good drainage and partial shade to filtered light exposure in temperate to subtropical climates.
Kuranga respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners, the Wurundjeri people, as the custodians of this land. We pay respect to all Aboriginal community Elders, past and present, who have resided in the area and have been an integral part of the history of the region.
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