Gompholobium scabrum seeds – (Lilac Painted Lady)

Description

This Australian native is a small shrub to about 2 m high, and 1 m wide.  It has lovely brightly coloured lilac pink to light  purple  flowers in August to November, when it is smothered with very lovely pea shaped flowers, amidst delicate foliage which is almost heather like . It makes a good cut flower . It is probably  the most spectacular of the Fabaceae family and  likes a well drained soil in full sun and is frost hardy. It is easy to grow from seed, and can be used to good effect as a container plant.

Sowing advice

Put the seeds into hot water which has just been boiled and soak them for 12 hours. If some seeds are not yet plump, re-soak them in hot water for 12 hours. Sow the seeds onto moist seed raising mix and cover to their depth with mix. Keep them moist at about 18-22 deg C.  They should germinate in about 10-20 days. If they don’t germinate, don’t be too hasty to discard them as they often don’t germinate until conditions are right.