Botanical Name
Correa backhouseana ‘Rocky Cape’
Common Name
Rocky Cape Correa
Description
Rocky Cape is a hardy native correa renowned for its distinctive bell-shaped flowers and robust growth habit that creates reliable displays in challenging garden conditions. This resilient cultivar produces masses of pendant bell-shaped flowers that bloom from autumn through winter, providing valuable nectar sources when few other plants are flowering and attracting honeyeating birds. The small, oval leaves create attractive fine-textured evergreen foliage with excellent cold and coastal tolerance. Extremely hardy and adaptable once established, it thrives in well-drained soils and full sun to partial shade positions with outstanding frost and salt tolerance. Perfect for borders, containers, and areas where hardy native shrubs with reliable winter flowering create structured landscape displays.
Plant Category
Medium Shrubs
Size (H x W)
Height: 1-2 meters, Spread: 1-2 meters
Correa backhouseana naturally occurs in southeastern Australia including Tasmania, with ‘Rocky Cape’ thriving in well-drained soils with good drainage and full sun to partial shade exposure in cool temperate to coastal 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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